Research on environmental design supporting people's intellectual activities

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15H02880
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Design science
• Research Institution: Tokyo Denki University
• Principal Investigator: WATANABE Akiko 東京電機大学, 未来科学部, 准教授 (80286632)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 児玉 直樹 新潟医療福祉大学, 医療技術学部, 教授 (50383146)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 知的活動 / 脳活動 / 知的生産性 / 環境デザイン / 建築空間計画 / 建築空間設計 / 情報処理活動 / 知的創造活動

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research aims to clarify what kind of design is preferable for the physical environment that supports intellectual activities by personal information processing and knowledge creation. The research focuses on 4 points; 1) color, 2) space size, 3) space shape, 4) the change with time. Subjects were adult males, adult females, elderly men and elderly women. In this research, in addition to the impression evaluation survey by the questionnaire to the subject, the fatigue / mood state evaluation study, the experiments were carried out using the method of measuring the brain activity using optical topography. As a result, the research clarified concretely useful knowledge as to what kind of design environment elements (color, space size, shape, change with time) activate human intellectual activities.

Free Research Field

建築計画・設計