scholarly journals Domestic Environmental Experience Design

Encyclopedia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 505-518
Author(s):  
Sajal Chowdhury ◽  
Masa Noguchi ◽  
Hemanta Doloi
Keyword(s):  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Experience Design ◽  
User Centred Design ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Environmental Experience ◽  
Domestic Environments ◽  
Physical Responses

The term ‘domestic environmental experience’ was defined as users’ experiences of cognitive perceptions and physical responses to their domestic built environments. Domestic environments can be enriched through the implementation of environmental experience design (EXD) by combining users’ environmental, spatial and contextual factors that may accommodate occupants’ needs and demands as well as their health and wellbeing. Here, an EXD theoretical concept has been developed based on the ‘User-Centred Design’ thematical framework.

scholarly journals Defining Domestic Environmental Experience for Occupants’ Mental Health and Wellbeing

Designs ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sajal Chowdhury ◽  
Masa Noguchi ◽  
Hemanta Doloi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Experience Design ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Environmental Experience ◽  
Human Perceptions ◽  
Domestic Environments ◽  
Economic Constraints ◽  
Physical Responses

This study was stipulated by today’s limited living conditions of middle income households in Bangladesh who have economic constraints that contribute to hindering improvement of their existing domestic settings that may affect occupants’ mental health and wellbeing. The design of domestic living environments tend to influence occupants’ emotions, feelings and moods. Thus, domestic environmental experiences need to be examined and incorporated into architectural design decisions. To understand the notion of such experiences, this study reviewed literatures concerning the related domains extensively. This study found the significant impact of domestic environments on human perceptions. Each design of domestic settings affects occupants’ emotional responses positively or negatively. Through this study, the term domestic environmental experience was defined as users’ experiences of cognitive perceptions and physical responses to their domestic built environment. In addition, it led to proposing the composition of domestic environmental experiences that need to be correlated with architectural design solutions. Nonetheless, this study did not examine the correlation where the emerging notion of Environmental Experience Design (EXD) may serve as the mediator. Accordingly, this new horizon of EXD research needs to be explored further with the aim to improve domestic built environments in Bangladesh which were the original driver of this research.

How does the workload applied during the training week and the contextual factors affect the physical responses of professional soccer players in the match?

2021 ◽  
pp. 174795412199561
Author(s):  
Berni Guerrero-Calderón ◽  
Maximilian Klemp ◽  
José Alfonso Morcillo ◽  
Daniel Memmert
Keyword(s):  
Prediction Models ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Soccer Players ◽  
Professional Soccer ◽  
Soccer Teams ◽  
Level Of Significance ◽  
Physical Output ◽  
Physical Responses ◽  
Positive Effect

The aim of this study was to examine whether match physical output can be predicted from the workload applied in training by professional soccer players. Training and match load records from two professional soccer teams belonging to the Spanish First and Second Division were collected through GPS technology over a season ( N = 1678 and N = 2441 records, respectively). The factors playing position, season period, quality of opposition, category and playing formation were considered into the analysis. The level of significance was set at p ≤ .05. The prediction models yielded a conditional R-squared in match of 0.51 in total distance (TD); 0.58 in high-intensity distance (HIRD, from 14 to 24 km · h−1); and 0.60 in sprint distance (SPD, >24 km·h−1). The main finding of this study was that the physical output of players in the match was predicted from the training-load performed during the previous training week. The training-TD negatively affected the match physical output while the training-HIRD showed a positive effect. Moreover, the contextual factors – playing position, season period, division and quality of opposition – affected the players’ physical output in the match. Therefore, these results suggest the appropriateness of programming lower training volume but increasing the intensity of the activity throughout the weekly microcycle, and considering contextual factors within the load programming.

A New Approach for Training-load Quantification in Elite-level Soccer: Contextual Factors

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Berni Guerrero-Calderón ◽  
Maximilian Klemp ◽  
Alfonso Castillo-Rodriguez ◽  
José Alfonso Morcillo ◽  
Daniel Memmert
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Prediction Models ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Soccer Players ◽  
Total Distance ◽  
Professional Soccer ◽  
Equivalent Distance ◽  
Physical Responses ◽  
Match Location

AbstractThe aims of this study were to analyse the physical responses of professional soccer players during training considering the contextual factors of match location, season period, and quality of the opposition; and to establish prediction models of physical responses during training sessions. Training data was obtained from 30 professional soccer players from Spanish La Liga using global positioning technology (N=1365 performances). A decreased workload was showed during training weeks prior to home matches, showing large effects in power events, equivalent distance, total distance, walk distance and low-speed running distance. Also, the quality of the opposition also affected the training workload (p<0.05). All regression-models showed moderate effects, with an adjusted R2 of 0.37 for metabolic-work, 0.34 for total distance covered, 0.25 for high-speed running distance (18–21 km·h−1), 0.29 for very high-speed running distance (21–24 km·h−1), 0.22 for sprint running distance (>24 km·h−1) and 0.34 for equivalent distance. The main finding of this study was the great association of match location, season period and quality of opposition on the workload performed by players in the training week before the match; and the development of workload prediction-models considering these contextual factors, thus proposing a new and innovative approach to quantify the workload in soccer.

scholarly journals The Usability Study of a Proposed Environmental Experience Design Framework for Active Ageing

Buildings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masa Noguchi ◽  
Nan Ma ◽  
Catherine Woo ◽  
Hing-wah Chau ◽  
Jin Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Active Ageing ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Design Decision ◽  
Experience Design ◽  
Research Framework ◽  
Environmental Experience

Growing ageing population today may be necessitating building design decision makers to reconsider the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) standards in a way that accommodates senior occupants’ diverse and individual needs and demands. An experience design approach to rationalising and individualising end-user experience on how to utilise tangible products may serve to reflect user perceptions. Generally, architectural design practices tend to incorporate neither IEQ monitoring and analysis data, nor environmental experience design today. In response to the need for filling this gap, the authors of this paper conducted a feasibility study previously that led to structuring and defining an ‘Environmental Experience Design’ (EXD) research framework. Based on the previous case study on the collective spatial analysis and IEQ monitoring results, this paper further explored the usability and applicability of this proposed EXD framework particularly to the previously documented aged care facility in Victoria, Australia, which has been stressing active ageing agendas. This EXD framework usability experiment helped to build the capacity for engaging the subjectivity and objectivity of end users’ expectations, desires, and requirements in the architectural design thinking process. Nonetheless, due to the limitation of this initial and fundamental usability study’s resources and the objective, the necessity of adjusting the scale and scope of EXD analyses emerged. Moreover, the universality of this EXD research framework usage under various architectural typologies and user conditions yet require further attempts and investigations.

One group analysis and many. Response to Farhad Dalal’s ‘One group analysis or many?’

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 334-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hermann Staats
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Group Psychotherapy ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Group Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Conceptual Frame

Responding to Farhad Dalal’s question ‘one group analysis or many?’ the author looks at contextual factors of working with groups, claiming that group therapists are different in different groups and adjusting to setting variables. He describes aspects of the ‘Goettingen Model of Group Psychotherapy’. This model offers variability in conducting groups within one theoretical concept. Different scientific approaches are integrated in order to adjust to different patients and settings. Many aspects (e.g. a marked intersubjective approach and working with an ‘responsive’ mode (‘antwortender modus’) are close to Dalal’s thinking. In contrast to Dalal, however, empirical evidence and evidence based therapies are seen as valuable parts of group psychotherapies and group analysis. Within this conceptual frame, working in and with groups is both—one group analysis and many.

scholarly journals The User Centred Design (UCD) and User Experience Design (UXD) Practice In Industry: Performance Methods and Practice Constraints

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S2) ◽  
pp. 175-182
Keyword(s):  
User Experience ◽  
Development Time ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Time Constraints ◽  
Experience Design ◽  
User Experience Design ◽  
User Centred Design ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Low Profile ◽  
Industry Performance

This study reviews the methods used in investigating user centred design (UCD) practice in industry as well as the constraints to the practice of UCD and user experience design (UXD) in industry using systematic literature review approach. Thirty-five high profile papers were reviewed and the result showed that among others, low-profile usability professionals in the development process, usability not being accepted as a key quality, usability not supporting product development time, resistance to usability, lack of awareness, and time constraints are the constraints facing UCD and UXD in practice. Most software development studies also found constraints between developers and users. The study’s outcome also revealed that most investigations carried out to assess UCD/UXD practice was done using surveys (66%) followed by interviews (29%).

scholarly journals Conceptual Parametric Relationship for Occupants’ Domestic Environmental Experience

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 2982
Author(s):  
Sajal Chowdhury ◽  
Masa Noguchi ◽  
Hemanta Doloi
Keyword(s):  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Environmental Design ◽  
Human Perception ◽  
Research Direction ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
Experience Design ◽  
Domestic Spaces ◽  
Environmental Experience ◽  
Design Factors

Today’s architectural design approaches do not adequately address the relationship between users’ spatial, environmental and psychological experiences. Domestic environmental experience generally indicates users’ cognitive perceptions and physical responses within dwelling spaces. Therefore, without a clear perception of occupants’ experiences, it is difficult to identify proper architectural solutions for a domestic environment. To understand notions of these domestic experiences, the current study explores the theoretical relationship between spatial and environmental design factors within domestic settings which led to the concept of “Environmental Experience Design (EXD)”. Extensive data exploration was conducted using a combination of thirty keywords through different databases (e.g., Scopus, ScienceDirect, PubMed, Google Scholar, Mendeley and Research Gate) to categorise the relevant literature regarding thematic study areas such as human perception and phenomenology, environmental design and psychology, residential environment and design, health-wellbeing and user experiences. This study has identified theoretical associations between spatial and environmental design factors of different domestic spaces that can stimulate occupants’ satisfaction and comfort by reviewing eighty-seven studies from the literature. However, occupants’ contextual situations significantly impact domestic spaces, where spatial and environmental design attributes may be connected to diverse sociocultural factors. The scope of explanation about user context is limited, to some extent, in environmental design theories. Thus, combining occupants’ contexts with spatial and environmental design factors will be a future research direction used to explore the notion of “Domestic Environmental Experience Design”

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