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Exploring Sign System Design for a Medical Facility: A Virtual Environment Study on Wayfinding Behaviors
| العنوان: | Exploring Sign System Design for a Medical Facility: A Virtual Environment Study on Wayfinding Behaviors |
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| المؤلفون: | Ching-Yuan Wang, Ching-I Chen, Meng-Cong Zheng |
| المصدر: | Buildings, Vol 13, Iss 6, p 1366 (2023) |
| بيانات النشر: | MDPI AG, 2023. |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Building construction |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | wayfinding, sign system design, virtual environment, medical facility, indoor navigation, signage design, Building construction, TH1-9745 |
| الوصف: | The National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) is a significant institution in modern medicine in Taiwan. Its West Campus, the oldest medical center in the country, has been recognized as a municipal historic site due to its architectural and historical importance. However, visitors have faced navigation difficulties for a long time. To address this issue, a study was conducted to find navigation solutions within the constraints of architectural structure, hardware, and busy crowds. Blender and Unity were used to recreate the environment, and interactive virtual wayfinding experiments were conducted with 64 participants divided into two groups. Each group completed 12 tasks in two scenarios, and their task performance, wayfinding behavior, and questionnaire responses were collected to evaluate the overall environment. The pretest helped identify problems in the existing signage system and weak areas, leading to redesigning of a new signage system. The main objective of the posttest was to evaluate the new design’s effectiveness. Our research contributes to future signage system layout design references, enhancing readability and information coherence while recommending locations within medical facilities. We set specific design standards to facilitate wayfinding signage systems in complex environments. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2075-5309 61812544 |
| Relation: | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/13/6/1366; https://doaj.org/toc/2075-5309 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/buildings13061366 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/5555d61812544e2389806c47f987d127 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.5555d61812544e2389806c47f987d127 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 20755309 61812544 |
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| DOI: | 10.3390/buildings13061366 |