Principles, Problems,

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Principles, Problems, Evidence

• Team Lefthook
• Michelle Williams-Davis
• Lu, Yi
• Ali Asmi

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Principles

• 1. Provide transparency of environment and
  processes to users
• 2. Provide flexibility in design of environment
• 3. Patient centered-design
• 4. Reduce staff stress
• 5. User friendly environment

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Problems

• 1. The emergency department is unbelievable small
  and crowding. The visibility is limited by narrow
  hallways and many turns.
• 2. HKS design team proposes to use single
  entrance to reduce users' confusing and walking
  distance between different departments. The
  proposed layout of the new hospital seems very
  complicated. Whether the new design works, we
  need more investigation.

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Problems

• 3. The entire hospital will move into the new
  site in one weekend and still remain operation.
  It will cause lots of wayfinding problem and the
  movement disorder.
• 4. There are no real-time updated wayfinding aids
  in hospitals such as GPS/RFID.
• 5. The siblings and other materials objects that
  the patient's family has when entering the
  hospital leads to space issues in the waiting
  areas and exam rooms.

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Evidence

• 1 People with virtual environmenttraining
  performance better than people without
• Hunt, M. E. (1984)
• Foreman, N., et al, (2005)
• 2 The influence of degree of simplicity
  offloorplan
• Best, G. A. (1967) Weisman, J. (1981) O'Neill,
  M. J. (1991)
• Haq, S., Zimring, C. (2003) Peponis, J.,
  Zimring, C., Choi, Y. K. (1990)

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Evidence

• 3 Difference in spatial cognition/wayfinding
  ability between children and adults
• Siegel, A. W., White, S. H. (1975)
• Allen, G. L. (1982)
• Jansen-Osmann, et al, (2006, 2007)
• 4 people navigating in virtual environment have
  similar spatial performance to people navigating
  in the equivalent real-world environment
• ansen-Osmann, P., Wiedenbauer, G. (2004)
• Ruddle, R. A., Lessells, S. (2006)

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Evidence

• 5 Sound control and the design of workplace can
  reduce errors, increase effectiveness, and reduce
  staff turnover.
• Joseph, Anjali Ulrich, Roger (2007)
• Joseph, Anjali. (2006)

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Questions?