scholarly journals Evaluating Inclusive Campus Environment Design Criteria Using CFPR and FANP Methodologies

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 92-102
Author(s):  
Kemal Gökhan Nalbant ◽  
Şahi̇ka Özdemi̇r ◽  
Yavuz Özdemi̇r
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Design Criteria ◽  
Spatial Effects ◽  
Environment Design ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Campus Environment ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Network Process ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study

University campuses bring together individuals from different socio-cultural backgrounds. At the same time, university campuses contribute to the personal and intellectual development of individuals and serve as a socialization area. Campuses create vitality with their social, cultural, economic, and spatial effects. In this paper, we study for evaluating inclusive campus environment design criteria using the Fuzzy Analytical Network Process (FANP) and Consistent Fuzzy Preference Relations (CFPR) techniques, which are two Multi- Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods. Seven Inclusive Campus Environment Design Criteria are “Land Use Organization”, “Compactness”, “Connectivity”, “Configuration”, “Living campus”, “Greens” and “Context”. The major contribution of our study is to prioritize inclusive campus environment design criteria by using numerical methods from the decision maker's perspective. According to the authors’ knowledge, this will be the first interdisciplinary study to use MCDM methods for evaluating inclusive campus environment design criteria. Additionally, the results of both methodologies are compared

scholarly journals Physical Connectivity as Enabler of Unexpected Encounters With Information in Campus Development: A Case Study of South China University of Technology

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yubo Liu ◽  
Mian Ji ◽  
Qiaoming Deng ◽  
Kai Hu
Keyword(s):  
South China ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Spatial Effects ◽  
Campus Environment ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
Academic Information

This paper is an attempt to advance research on spatial potential for interdisciplinary innovation of university campuses by proposing a spatial quantitative method. The aim is to develop the campus to adapt to the new pedagogical structure of encouraging interdisciplinary innovation in the era of knowledge society. For this purpose, literature from management, psychology, and architecture are reviewed to provide insight into the relationship between innovation and physical environment. The existing research mainly focused on the characteristics of physical environment that supported individual innovative thinking or innovative interaction between people in building scale, which is relatively limited in this study for the campus scale since people are less likely to exchange academic information with strangers because of a lack of knowledge about their professional background. In this context, this research enriches the understanding of spatial potential for innovation by proposing a more effective way of increasing unexpected encounters with information, which are probably occurred while people passing by laboratories, seminars, or exhibitions of other disciplines. In this process, the unexpected encounters with information act as the medium or promotion factor for face-to-face interaction. This kind of innovative potential requires fewer conditions like acquaintance or face-to-face interaction but depends more on the space organization. Physical connectivity acts as enabler and the effects vary. This article reports on a preliminary study of how Space Syntax as a quantitative approach is applied to evaluate the effects in the case of South China University of Technology. The proposed method aims to sustain a sustainable transition toward a more adaptable relation between people and the campus environment. However, to improve understanding of spatial effects on innovation, more empirical studies must be carried out.

scholarly journals An exploratory study of the ways in which mothers keep their infants occupied

Curationis ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Botha ◽  
G. Cleaver
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Development ◽  
First Year ◽  
Development Research ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Infant Research ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mother And Child ◽  
Mother Child Relationship

The mother child relationship can help or hinder the social, emotional and intellectual development of the infant. Research has shown that the interaction between mother and child can affect the child’s cognitive development. Research has shown that mothers from the lower socio-economic groups do not stimulate their babies optimally and that this may affect the children negatively. In this study 86 underprivileged mothers from two different cultural backgrounds were asked to describe the ways in which they kept their infants occupied during the first year of their infants’ lives. The differences between the two groups are discussed and recommendations are made.

Interdisciplinary study on dietary complexity in Central China during the Longshan Period (4.5–3.8 kaBP): New isotopic evidence from Wadian and Haojiatai, Henan Province

The Holocene ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 095968362097025
Author(s):  
Wei Li ◽  
Ligang Zhou ◽  
YiHsien Lin ◽  
Hai Zhang ◽  
Ying Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Central China ◽  
Feeding Strategies ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Hunter Gatherers ◽  
Western Asia ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study ◽  
Longshan Period ◽  
Cattle And Sheep

Central China is one of the key regions of the world that sees the transition from early Neolithic urbanization into the social complexity of Bronze Age civilizations. Previous evidence had indicated that the diets of humans and the feeding strategies of livestock in Central China during the Longshan Period (4.5–3.8 kaBP) became more complex and diverse, including the widespread introduction of cattle and sheep, and the coexistence of different human dietary groups within several settlements. Within this paper new and pre-existing stable isotope analyses from human ( n = 31) and animal bones ( n = 76) recovered from Wadian and Haojiatai, two important Longshan sites in the southeast of Central China, are integrated with multiproxy data from archaeological, environmental, and cultural contexts to interpret the social conditions behind dietary complexity from an interdisciplinary perspective. We suggest that the feeding strategies of cattle and sheep from Western Asia were successfully adapted to the pre-existing local millet farming subsistence regimes, and that the different human dietary groups seen corresponded to continuing diversified subsistence strategies that included millet farming, rice farming, and hunter-gathering. This dietary complexity is considered as a reflection of different patterns within the cultural interactions in Central China during the Longshan Period that saw the mixing of populations with diversified cultural backgrounds. This is represented by the introduction of extraneous livestock and the coexistence of millet and rice farmers at Wadian, and the continued expansion of millet agriculture within Central China indicated by the coexistence of millet farmers and hunter-gatherers at Haojiatai.

scholarly journals THE SMART WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN UNIVERSITY CAMPUS

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (22) ◽  
pp. 71-87
Author(s):  
Danial Sim Wei Jie ◽  
Haslina Arshad ◽  
Siok Yee Tan ◽  
Nur Fazidah Elias
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Management System ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Campus Environment ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Waste Management System ◽  
The University

It has been a challenge for Malaysia to handle solid waste management for more than a decade. The increase in population size has led to an increase in the waste amount contributed by Malaysians. Due to that, proper solid waste management is essential in protecting the environment. There are many ways to execute solid waste management but developing countries may find it challenging to find the best way to dispose of waste efficiently. The same phenomenon seems to happen on university campuses as well. This article aims to propose a smart waste management system for university campuses. Most of the related work concentrates on detecting bin levels, despite making it a full-fledged system that comprises several modules regardless of web or mobile platform. A prototype of a smart bin is proposed, and this paper discusses its architecture and functionality. A web-based user application is also proposed in this article. With these components, the system enables the user to obtain information on the bins around them and can help the management to manage solid waste more efficiently. With the help of the Internet of Things and Cloud services, the system can achieve a greener and more sustainable campus environment. The proposed system will also be enhanced further to increase the awareness among the university students to move forward to a greener campus.

scholarly journals The Effects of Sensory Design on Autistic Children

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (14) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Roslinda Ghazali ◽  
Siti Rasidah Md. Sakip ◽  
Ismail Samsuddin
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Classroom Environment ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Repetitive Behaviors ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Design Criteria ◽  
Environment Design ◽  
Learning Environment Design ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
Sensory Design

Autism is a lifelong handicap that affects their social skills, repetitive behaviors, speech, and nonverbal communication, as well as by unique strengths and differences. Knowing them as a unique person, designated learning environment should consider the sensory issues to overcome their needs. However, designers are lack of awareness in terms of sensory design during their design stage. The objective is to identify the sensory design of the classroom environment, while the paper aims to develop the Design Criteria Checklist of sensory design for Autism Centre. The result of the study highlighted factors that relate to the quality physical learning environment.Keywords: Autism; sensory design, physical learning environment; design criteria checklist;eISSN 2398-4295 © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.

The efficacy of campus wayfinding signage: a comparative study from Hong Kong and Pakistan

Facilities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (11/12) ◽  
pp. 871-892 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hassan Iftikhar ◽  
Salman Asghar ◽  
Yan Luximon
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Facility Management ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Complex Environments ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Content Type ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Spatial Layouts ◽  
Environmental Legibility

Purpose Complex environments have a paucity of visual wayfinding information creating a strenuous situation for the new visitors. University campuses situated in the central urban areas with multi-storey structures and complex spatial layouts have poor environmental legibility. International students and visitors with diverse cultural backgrounds feel disoriented during wayfinding in these environments. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the cultural and individual differences affecting wayfinding behaviour. Design/methodology/approach An online wayfinding survey has been conducted through a questionnaire from 170 university students and visitors from Hong Kong and Pakistan. A five-point bipolar Likert scale has been used to evaluate wayfinding problems and ascribed behaviour. Findings The results enunciated a substantial influence of culture on the decision-making process and wayfinding behaviour. Critical differences have been documented based on the country of origin and native language. Individual-related differences (age, gender, spatial familiarity, education, etc.) were computed, where age and spatial familiarity being noted as key factors impacting the respondents’ opinion. Future exploration has been discussed for the pivotal elements regarding wayfinding information signage using computer simulations. Research limitations/implications The investigation can be further moved towards the other complex environments with fused facilities for a better understanding of wayfinding behaviour. Practical implications The findings can be instrumental for improved access to user facilities and can reinforce the user’s trust and dependence on the institutional facility management. Originality/value In the wayfinding study, no cross-cultural (individualists vs collectivists) study has been conducted in a university campus to investigate the wayfinding difficulty and ascribed behaviour, especially when the environment is unfamiliar.

Aerospace Meteorology: Some Lessons Learned from the Development and Application of NASA Terrestrial Environment Design Criteria

2011 ◽  
Vol 92 (9) ◽  
pp. 1149-1157 ◽  
Author(s):  
William W. Vaughan ◽  
Dale L. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Application ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Design Criteria ◽  
Environment Design ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Terrestrial Environment ◽  
Aerospace Vehicles

Aerospace meteorology plays an important role in the design, development, and operation of aerospace vehicles. Many of the issues and lessons presented occurred during the involvement of the authors with the development and interpretation of aerospace environment inputs, especially those of the terrestrial environment. Background for the actions needed to avoid the issue being repeated or the lesson having to be relearned is addressed. The engineering application importance and some issues associated with the presentation and interpretation of terrestrial environment guidelines associated with aerospace meteorology elements are presented.

Discussing the Campus Landscape Design from Hargreaves’s Landscape Design Idea

2011 ◽  
Vol 255-260 ◽  
pp. 1418-1421
Author(s):  
Fang Yan ◽  
Ji Peng Liu ◽  
Shu Ling Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Design ◽  
Environment Design ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Campus Environment ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Design Idea ◽  
Plan Design ◽  
Landscape Formation

Through the reorganization, analysis and summary of Hargreaves’s campus overall plan design idea of Cicinnati University, the author carried on the discussion to the existing university campus environment design, then given the explicit mentality and the localization. It will have the enlightenment by the time to the present campus construction and the landscape design, and will be helpful in the outstanding campus landscape formation.

scholarly journals Decentering Expected Voices and Visibilities through Connective Learning in a Feminist Transnational Bridging Pilot

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-83
Author(s):  
Sarah York-Bertram ◽  
Marie Lovrod ◽  
Lisa Krol
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Power Systems ◽  
English Language ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Learning Conversations

This paper outlines the learning opportunities that emerged when international students acquiring English for Academic Purposes joined Canadian undergraduates fluent in English for an Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies. Critical reflections provided by students, course facilitators, and the graduate student researcher were gathered through surveys, interviews, and focus groups that examined experiences of academic internationalization in feminist and language acquisition classrooms, co-designed to engage difference as a valuable resource in community and knowledge-building. Results included development of mutual mentoring relationships across a wide range of educational and cultural backgrounds; honing of international students’ English-language skills through structured, intentional learning opportunities with others fluent in English; deepening awareness of non-western and Indigenous contexts as sites of critical knowledge production; and evidence that international and local newcomers to university campuses have much to offer one another. For everyone involved, there were opportunities to reflect critically on both subject matter and pedagogies of community building; use accessible language to build connections; interrogate knowledge claims emerging from the many contexts that instructors and students brought with them into learning conversations; and practice collaborative knowledge-building by probing the effects of local and global power systems in the learning pathways of students, instructors and institutions.

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