| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥3,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000)
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| Research Abstract |
To clarify relationship between human schema, behavior and architectural space, the following experiments have been conducted on way-finding behavior in mazes and subway stations.
1. Experiments were conducted on fixation movements at subway stations while way-finding. Discussion and comparisons were made between the way-finding in a small maze and subway stations. For the stations, fixation movements on signs were repetitive and concentrated. Slanting fixations were not only beyond the occluding edge of the wall, but also beyond column, pedestrians, a stair step and ceiling. After the entire path was familiarized, fixations on the column and sign decreased, and those on the floor and pedestrians increased.
2. Experiments on fixation movements while climbing and descending the staircases at a subway station were conducted. When climbing the stairs, fixation changed depending on where the subject was located. When subject was at landing while climbing the staircases, fixation movements ch
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anged depending on if he was making a turn or walking straight. While descending the staircases and at landing, significant differences occurred between each subject.
3. Way-finding experiment was conducted in virtual space by using a keyboard and a flat screen. It was compared with the way-finding in real space. As a result, four significant characteristics occurred in virtual space were found : (1) short duration fixations hardly occurred, (2) subjects had difficulty determining the distances between themselves and other objects, (3) passive fixations were found, and (4) some activities easily done in a real space were difficult in virtual.
4. Multi-user simulator for the experiments of way-finding with verbal communication and experiments of way-finding with verbal communication in a virtual maze in groups of four or eight subjects were conducted. According to these experiments, types of way-finding behaviors, communication words, and characteristics of image maps drawn by subjects were found. Less
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