高齢者と若年者による駅階段の視覚的評価に関する研究

概要

論文の詳細を見る
The purpose of this study is to designate a comfortable design for ralway stircases, particularly for the elderly, based on pedestrians' visual perception. In order to know the differences in the subjective evaluations of stairs between the elderly and the younger subjects, interview investigations and the evaluation experiments were conducted in regard to visual perceptions. 25 color photographs of stairs in subways were evaluated. 21 elderly subjects and 25 young subjects were participated in our experiments The following conclusions were obtained; (l) by direct interviews with subjects, 5 factors such as feelings of spaciousness, care-free, usability, exertion loads and design were classified, (2) by factor analysis three major factors were derived. where were mainly connected with a feeling of spaciousness, esthetic sence and exertion sence, (3) a feeling of spaciousness was the major factor to evaluate stairs for the elderly subjects, and design was the major factor for the young subjects, (4) between age groups, there were distinct differences between the factor of feeling of esthetic and the exertion of stairs, and but there was no differences concerning the feeling of spaciousness. Both age groups evaluated the perception of stairs mainly by a factor of a feeling of spaciousness. It became clear that in regard to factor of the feeling of preferences, the young subjects' evaluations were based on both factors of the presence of an escalator and the length of stairs, while elderly subjects' evaluation were based only on the presence of an escalator.
2002-02-28

高齢者と若年者による駅階段の視覚的評価に関する研究

スポンサーリンク

概要

著者

関連論文

スポンサーリンク