İç Mimarlık Bölümü Yayın Koleksiyonu

Permanent URI for this collectionhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12416/398

Browse

Now showing 1 - 20 of 118

An analysis on mixed-use high-rise residential complexes in Istanbul as to their prioritization of evaluation categories in LEED
(Çankaya University Press, 2018) Süzer, Özge; Yılmaz, Meltem
The most globally used environmental assessment tool; LEED, offers the certification of projects according to the evaluation criteria of green buildings. Furthermore, emerging mixed-use high-rise residential complexes (MHRC) in metropolitans like Istanbul draw attention, as they help reduce carbon emissions by providing various facilities in one entity for its residents. Yet, they also have negative effects on resources, due to excessive energy consumptions owing to their high user capacities. The objective of this study is to analyse LEED certified MHRC in Istanbul, regarding their prioritization of evaluation categories. LEED’s database revealed nine certified MHRC under the NC scheme. Based on their gained points, mean ranks ( ) of categories were calculated, which indicated the priorities given by this building typology in Istanbul. The obtained category priority order was then compared to the one implied by LEED’s assigned category weights. It was found that EA gained much lower attention than needed.
Indoor Soundscapes of the Future: Listening To Smart Houses
(wiley, 2023) Alkan, A.L.; Yörükoğlu, P.N.D.; Kitapci, K.
The acoustic environment of smart houses impacts the overall quality of life and wellbeing of occupants. A well-designed acoustic environment can promote relaxation, while excessive noise or distractions can negatively impact wellbeing. It is crucial to consider sound’s role in smart house design. Smart houses have built-in virtual assistants that respond to voice commands, perform various tasks, and verbally respond to such commands. This machine-to-human-to-machine verbal interaction requires high speech intelligibility (i.e., low reverberation time and high signal-to-noise ratio) in smart houses, which is not required for traditional homes. The open floor plan and multi-purpose rooms in smart houses can create challenges for sound management. This can be addressed by creating separate zones for different activities or using room dividers that help to direct and absorb sound. The design of smart houses includes the placement of speakers and other audio devices to optimize sound quality and distribution. Speakers are installed in the ceiling or walls to create a more immersive and balanced listening experience. The placement of microphones and other sensors should also be optimized for smart houses. Microphones should be placed where sound is most likely heard or where it best captures voice commands. Integrating multiple audio sources and devices creates challenges in managing and organizing sound in a smart house. Designers should consider configuring smart devices and ensuring that different devices are compatible and functioning properly. © 2024 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.
An Investigation of Sound Sources in Smart Houses for Improved Machine-To Communication
(European Acoustics Association, EAA, 2023) Kitapcı, Kıvanç; Alkan, A.; Yorukoglu, P.N.D.; Kitapci, K.; İç Mimarlık
This study aims to investigate the ever-evolving indoor soundscapes of smart houses by classification of the sounds emitted from smart devices. Nowadays, communication is no longer limited to person-to-person. Smart devices frequently communicate with users by verbal or tonal notifications. Therefore, acoustic characteristics of smart houses, especially reverberation time and background noise levels, have increased importance in achieving improved and lossless signal transfer and speech intelligibility. It is hypothesized that most houses are unsuitable for effective tonal and verbal communication with smart devices regarding acoustical conditions. Within the scope of the study, the devices found in the smart technology market were investigated. The sounds emitted from the identified devices were then classified according to their communicative nature (verbal/tonal), designability, customizability, and cause (i.e., intentional or consequential). The acoustic requirements for effective communication with the individual smart devices were analyzed in addition to the resulting holistic indoor soundscape of the smart houses The results of the study will help architects, interior architects, and other environmental designers to improve the quality of communication while guiding future research to understand indoor soundscapes of smart houses. © 2023 First author et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation - WoS: 2
Citation - Scopus: 2
Progression of Color Decision Making in Introductory Design Education
(Wiley, 2017) Ural, Sibel Ertez; Akbay, Saadet; Altay, Burcak
Color comprises both subjective and objective aspects within its contextual nature. Research on color design tends to explore this seemingly contradictory concerns from theoretical point of view, as well as architectural and design practice. The aim of this study was to observe subjective, intuitive or heuristic and objective, knowledge-based or analytical attitudes toward color in design education. In the study 84 introductory design students were surveyed progressively to understand their color decision criteria after completion of three 2-dimensional colored exercises, specific in terms of color education. Students' responses to open-ended questions were coded according to the 5 categories, under 2 decision making processes derived from the literature; heuristic approach: preferential and symbolic criteria, and analytic reasoning: formal, thematic, and systematic criteria. A distinction between associative and emotional aspects of symbolic criteria was also revealed by the data analysis. The findings showed a shift from heuristic responses to analytic reasoning, as expected. Additionally, it is also investigated that students not only used heuristic approaches but also analytical components (formal and systematic) of color decision making in varying degrees as well, even before any color subjects covered. Thematic color decisions became a major part of the students' design considerations upon completion of color subjects. The observed increase in the number of color criteria interrelated by the students' among almost all categories explicated a complex decision making process particularly in color design and education. These findings were expected to lead to some further understanding in color decision making in design.
Mersin İli Mut İlçesinin Koruma Planlamasında Üretim Mirası Bulgurhanelerin Değerlendirilmesi
(2019) Manav, Ayşe; Urak, Gediz
Çevrelerin korunmasıyla sağlanan kazanımlar içinde endüstri mirasının korunması önemli bir yer tutmaktadır. Endüstri mirası kapsamında, geleneksel üretim biçimleri, yöresel kültürel değerlerdir ve teknolojik gelişmelere bağlı olarak yok olmaktadır. Terkedilmiş geleneksel üretim biçimlerinin yeniden canlandırılması veya bölgesel ölçekte geliştirilecek bir koruma planlamasının parçası olması, bu değerlerin korunarak sürdürülmesini ve bulunduğu yerleşimde toplumun koruma bilincinin gelişmesini sağlarken, bölge ve ülke ekonomisine de katkı sunacaktır. Bu sorumlulukla, Türkiye’de terkedilmiş bir üretim biçimi olan geleneksel bulgurculuk, Mut bulgurhaneleri ve oluşturduğu kültürel peyzaj üretim mirası olarak makalede ele alınmıştır. Bulgurhane, buğdayın yıkanması, haşlanması, kurutulması ve öğütülmesi sonucunda sofralık bulgur çeşitlerinin üretildiği yapılardır. Buğdayın işlenmesi sürecindeki, güneşte kurutma aşaması Mut bulgurculuğunun çıkış noktasıdır. Yirminci yüzyılın ortalarında, Mut’ta başlayan geleneksel bulgurculuk, önce ilçenin çeşitli yerlerinde sonra Bulgucular Sokak’ta yaklaşık bir asır boyunca etkin olarak sürdürülmüş, yirmi birinci yüzyılın başlarında makineli üretime geçilmesiyle neredeyse yok olmuştur. Günümüzde kullanılmasa da, Bulgucular Sokak’taki geleneksel bulgurhane binaları ve içindeki makineler, yan iş kolu büyükbaş hayvan besiciliğine ait ahır ve depolar, işçi-işveren ve mahallede yaşayan diğer kişilerin konutları, sosyal doku ve kentsel peyzaj öğeleri üretim mirası olarak korunmalıdır. Zamanla yok olan bu değerler, ilçe bütünü için önerilecek bir koruma planının ana temasını oluşturarak ilçedeki korunması gerekli tüm alanlarla beraber üst ölçekli çevre düzeni planlarıyla da uyumlu bütünleşik bir planlama yaklaşımı ile korunabilir. Ulusal ve uluslararası boyutta tanıtımı ve sergilenmesi sonucunda elde edilecek turizm geliri sayesinde ilçe, bölge ve ülke ekonomisine katkı sunabilir. Bu bağlamda; üretim mirası Mut bulgurhanelerinin tanıtımı yapılmış ve Mut ilçesinin tamamı için gerçekleştirilecek bir koruma planlamasındaki önemi vurgulanmıştır.
DESIGN AND COUNTER DESIGN AGAINST CONSUMPTION: 1972 “ITALY, THE NEW DOMESTIC LANDSCAPE” EXHIBITION (1)
(2023) Boysan, Aysu; Tunca, Gülru Mutlu
In Western Europe, the 1960s and 1970s covered the radical criticism of some European designers against mass production and consumption. Several Italian Radical designers raised the most compelling objection at an exhibition on the other side of the ocean: “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape” (INDL), curated by Emilio Ambasz in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1972. INDL marked a significant moment in contemporary design history. For the show, Ambasz selected more than a hundred “objects” produced by Italian manufacturers and displayed them in specially designed cases in the garden area. Moreover, he invited eleven Italian designers to create unique “microenvironments” by interpreting concepts assigned by a “special design program,” such as environmental psychology, locality, urbanism, micro and macro-scale housing, consumerism, and mass production. Although the “objects” displayed in the garden were of great importance - since the event was one of the first instances of Italian design’s introduction to the American public-this study concentrates on the contradicting responses of Italian designers, under headings “design and counterdesign as postulation” for understanding the design philosophy behind the appearance of “design versus non-design” dialectics of that era, which is still a recognized topic in contemporary architectural theory. This study, therefore, analyzes the eclectic and postmodern approaches of six Italian designers in the “design” category and the provocative denials of Radical designers presented under the “counterdesign” category. It aims to understand better the impact of this discursive opposition made visible by the exhibition on the anticonsumerist approaches and the search for alternative methodologies, which subsequently increased among designers.
Colour harmony: The ideality of pleasurableness
(2017) Akbay, Saadet; Joao João Durão, Maria
The search for the essence of colour harmony has a long tradition that, being a quest for aesthetic values, remains a contemporary question insofar as it addresses the interrelated issues of both beauty and pleasure. Colour harmony has been discussed in terms of two different points of view. As a measurement of aesthetics, the researches of colour harmony are based on the discovery of its systematic rules by identifying the relationship between colours and its aesthetic value in beauty and harmony. The proportional and orderly arrangements of colours and their relations to mathematics are the main concerns of this first approach. As a measurement of emotion, colour harmony is regarded as subject matter of pleasure, subjective feeling which is peculiar to an individual. Relying on the second approach, many studies have been conducted to identify the reasons behind why colour combinations are perceived as beautiful, pleasant, and harmonious. Thus, this paper is a retrospective review of the literature of colour harmony, its theories, and principles considering the two approaches. The assumption is that, in either case, colour harmony is grounded in a search for the ideality of pleasurableness.
Cami Mimarisinde Modern ve Geleneksel Temsil: Üç Caminin Analitik Karşılaştırması Ankara, Türkiye
(2023) Mertyürek, Serkan; Demirbaş, Güler Ufuk
Bu makale Türkiye’nin başkenti Ankara’da üç farklı modern cami incelemektedir. Özellikle, Türkiye’de cami envanterinin önemli bir bölümünü oluşturan “Osmanlı- tipi” camilerden farklı, yenilikçi ve özgün cami örneklerini araştırmaktadır. Osmanlı İmparatorluğu sonrası Cumhuriyet dönemi, cami mimarisinde “modern” ve “geleneksel” örnekler üzerinden süregiden bir tartışma ve rekabete tanıklık etmiştir. Aslında bu problem farklı yönleriyle ele alınmış olsa da, akademide genellikle doğrudan camilerin “modern” veya “geleneksel” olarak sınıflandırılması üzerinden tartışılmıştır. Oysa, bu sınıflandırma cami mimarisinde geleneğin repertuvarını oluşturan camilerin farklı fiziksel özelliklerini temel almalıdır. Bu çalışmada camiler kütle ve cephe tasarımları, mekânsal organizasyon, iç mekân formları, mimari program, malzeme seçimi ve bezeme, süsleme detayları olmak üzere camilerin fiziksel özelliklerine göre altı gruba ayrılmış, 18 farklı faktöre göre değerlendirilmiştir. Bu araştırma cami mimarisinde önemli olan “gelenek”, “geleneksel” ve “modern” kavramların anlaşılmasında ve ayırt edilmesindeki karışıklığı gidererek, cami mimarisinde modern ve geleneksel temsil tartışmasına katkı koymayı amaçlamaktadır.
Cross-Cultural Evaluation of Indoor Soundscape in Residential Areas
(Institute of Noise Control Engineering, 2017) Mohamed, M.A.E.; Dokmeci Yorukoglu, P.N.
This research establishes the relation between the soundscape perception in a residential context and the acoustic environment of an urban environment, taking into consideration the auditory perception of the space users based on their cultural and social backgrounds. Therefore, a case study is performed using a questionnaire methodology on two groups of people within the same urban environment; Arabic people and Turkish people living in the city of Ankara, Turkey. Moreover, the study ensures a comprehensive use of the soundscape perception evaluation criteria utilized in several studies in the literature. Literature review on related research has been put together through literature matrix method. In this first phase of the study, residential soundscape questionnaire and the methodology is presented. This is an ongoing graduate study and the findings will be presented in the second phase. Through the results of the future analysis, the researchers aim to understand the impacts and variations of cultural and social factors on the soundscape perception. © 2017 Institute of Noise Control Engineering. All rights reserved.
Understanding of User Evaluations on Fun Products
(Sciencepark Sci, Organization & Counseling Ltd, 2017) Akbay, Saadet
The fields of human-computer interaction and interaction design are increasingly dealing with the issues of fun, enjoyment and pleasure throughout the last two decades. The concept of fun becomes a concern in the development of usability of a product. Fun is an attribute considered to be an emotional aspect of interaction of a product. The evaluations and interpretations of fun on products are, therefore, subjective and personal which is peculiar to a user. A study, hence, was conducted to explore the term fun in everyday experience products. The aim is to understand what features and characteristics of a product make it fun and enjoyable to use. A total of twenty-nine users participated in the study. Each participant was interviewed individually in order for his/her personal attributes, interpretations and evaluations of fun to be elicited from a pool of thirty-two products. The participants' responses to open-ended questions were qualitatively analyzed by the use of content analysis procedure. The collected data was then grouped under four main categories which are visual aspect, functionality, usability, and contextual content. The findings of the study show that visual aspect of a product is the most concerned feature, followed by contextual content, usability and functionality, when evaluating the fun in everyday experience products.
Is it Real? Structuring Reality by Means of Signs
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016) Dökmeci Yörükoğlu, Papatya Nur; Onur, Zeynep; Tarasti, Eero; Src, lhami
Is it Real? is a collection of twenty-eight papers on the most challenging, provocative and profound topics related to the quest for real and virtual realities of vision and other senses, and realities that are either constructed or imagined. There was no school, no theory, no methodology, nor any empirical approach in semiotics which was not forced to take a position, whether implicitly or explicitly, in attempting to discuss this issue. Semiotics is a discipline dealing with signs, and, thus, it is commonly thought that if we say of something that it is a sign, then it is something less real than the thing itself to which it refers. As such, the field of problems which opens from the theme Is it Real? is almost endless but also relevant. This volume presents interactive dialogue related to this question structured under six different headings: five papers on the topic of Visual Realities; six on What is Real?; five on Textual Realities, concentrating on realities revealed from literature or the written language through texts; five on Constructed Realities; three on Virtual Realities; and, finally, four papers on Imagery Realities.
Determination of Considerations in Preference of Baby / Child Room Furniture
(2019) Çelebi Yazıcıoğlu, N. Mine; Yıldırım, Kemal; Kılıç, N. Pelin
Cultural Soundscape Evaluation on Re-Functionalized Historical Sites with Adaptive Reuse Approach: Ankara Citadel Case
(2021) Dökmeci Yörükoğlu, Papatya Nur; Urak, Zehra Gediz; Erçakmak Osma, Uğur Beyza
Cultural soundscaping is a research field that aims preservation and evaluation of the cultural heritage sites’ sound environments, as they are the intangible values that act as a crucial part of the place identity. Different aspects of sounds’ interaction with humans and places have provided that value of soundscape has become significant in heritage sites. The semantic values hidden in the intricate content of soundscapes within an urban context and their cultural values are in the scope of this study. In this sense, a methodological framework is introduced that is merged from the studies on cultural soundscape that are present in the literature. Accordingly, a pilot study was conducted as a case study based on the presented framework. The old city centre of Ankara, where new functions have been assigned with restoration projects in an adaptive reuse approach, and its heritage value from the perspective of its lost and changed soundscape, especially during and after the restoration were considered. Soundwalks and listening points on the pre-identified routes and semantic sound analysis were conducted as a pilot study in order to evaluate the restoration process during construction and after construction period of the sound environment at Ankara Citadel region. The importance of observing, surveying, managing, and preserving the historic sound environment of such historic heritage sites and its importance for the urban habitual life and society are discussed.
Assessment of Spatial Factors Influencing User Satisfaction in Quick-Casual Restaurants
(2022) Saleh Ahmadi, Reda R.; Akbay, Saadet
Users' evaluations of the restaurant environment are influenced by various design factors and their level of satisfaction and comfort, of which colour is an essential component. Several studies in the literature have demonstrated the influence of colour in interior design on human behaviour and psychology in various contexts. This study investigates the spatial factors influencing users' satisfaction in quick-casual restaurants. User satisfaction was measured using four major elements: product, service, price, and physical environment. This study used a questionnaire to assess user satisfaction in four quick-casual restaurants in Ankara, Turkey. The emphasis on colour effects was intended to evaluate the physical environment of the restaurants. The study results, which included the participation of 120 restaurant users, show that participants rated the various restaurant environments in a variety of ways. The assessments provided by the participants are statistically tested for significant differences based on gender, frequency of restaurant usage, and colour properties for both user satisfaction and the evaluation of the physical environment using one-way between groups of variance (ANOVA) (p < 0.05). The findings show that demographics have a limited influence on restaurant user satisfaction, though it varies depending on colour properties. Additionally, the results suggest that the environmental colours of quick-casual restaurants significantly influence user satisfaction, overall satisfaction levels, and the evaluation of the physical environments
Effects of Colour on the Sense of Immersion in Virtual Interior Environments
(2021) Gökmenoğlu, Firdevs; Akbay, Saadet
This paper investigates the effects of colour on the sense of immersion in virtual interior environments. Since colour in interior environments is vital for the perception of place, the three dimensions of colour, namely hue,saturation, and lightness (HSL), were evaluated as elementsfor transferring colour to virtual environments (VEs). In this context, this study aims to investigate how the sense of immersion in virtual interior environments differs depending on hue, saturation, and lightness and examines the extent to which colour dimensions influence the sense of immersion in VEs. For this, the HSL colour space was utilised to establish varying degrees of colours. An online survey was conducted to understand the people’s sense of immersion in different virtual interior settings. The study’s results suggest that perception of colour influences the sense of immersion in virtual environments.
Pandemi Sürecinde İç Mimarlık Lisans Eğitim Müfredatının Uzaktan Eğitim Modeline Adaptasyonu: Çankaya Üniversitesi Örneği
(2021) Urak, Gediz; Dökmeci Yörükoğlu, Papatya Nur; Akbay, Saadet
Çankaya Üniversitesi İç Mimarlık Bölümü, Covid-19 pandemisinin ortaya çıkması ile 30 Mart 2020 tarihi itibariyle eğitime uzaktan eğitim yöntemiyle devam etmek durumunda kalmıştır. Bu süreçte, Bölüm müfredatında yer alan derslerin uzaktan eğitim modeline dönüştürülmesi için yoğun bir çaba harcanmış ve detaylı bir hazırlık süreci yaşanmıştır. Müfredatın değiştirilmeden adapte edilmesi gerekliliği nedeniyle, bu çalışma kapsamında uzaktan eğitime adaptasyon sürecinin kilit aşamaları, eğitimin kalitesi ve sürdürülebilirliği tartışılmış, pandeminin, iç mimarlık eğitim sürecine olan kısa vadeli etkileri ve lisans eğitim müfredatında yapılan adaptasyonları sunulmuştur. Buna ek olarak, pandemi süreci nedeniyle ‘acil uzaktan eğitim’ ve ‘uzaktan eğitim’ şeklinde verilecek olan derslere hazırlık, derslerin işleniş biçimi, sınav uygulamaları, öğrenci başarı durumları ve görüşleri de aktarılmıştır. Öğrencilere uygulanan ön anket sonuçları, öğrencilerin ‘acil uzaktan eğitim’ sürecine katılımlarının elektronik cihaz, program ve internet erişimi konuları kapsamında mümkün olduğunu ve süreci köklü olarak etkileyecek aksaklıkların yaşanmayacağını ortaya koymuştur. Bunun dışında, öğretim elemanlarından alınan ‘uzaktan eğitim’ ile ilgili geri bildirimlerin sonuçları, teorik derslerdeki uzaktan eğitim sürecine adaptasyonun uygulamalı derslere göre belirgin olarak daha kısa sürede ve kolay olduğunu göstermiştir.
An innovative safety education method for architectural faculties to promote a culture of prevention in line with a “Vision Zero approach”
(2022) Akan, Aslı Er; Yeşilbağ, Damla; Alevsaçanlar, Yeliz; Karaman, Gülşah D.
Occupational safety and health (OHS) education in universities has an important role in developing and improving safety cultures in the workplace. Safety education is essential for improving necessary OSH skills, culture and knowledge, so do architects, urban planners, interior architects whose duties are regarded as the design, planning and execution of construction projects in high-risk sectors. As a consequence, there has been increasing recognition that safety education courses in the architecture faculties should have participative learning methods and resources. In order to increase preparedness for any potential future health crises parallel to the “Vision Zero” approach in work-related deaths, a new EU Strategic Framework was announced by the European Commission. The course described and proposed here aimed to raise awareness about OHS by teaching risks related to working environments, basic issues, basic legislation within the scope of OHS. It also aimed to cover professional liability with respect to OHS, and risks and hazards in the construction sector, as well as helping participants to analyze and evaluate the risks in workplace. This article’s primary objective is to identify an innovative safety education model of the “occupational health and safety course” with a “Vision Zero” approach.
Citation - WoS: 32
Citation - Scopus: 37
Development and Testing of Indoor Soundscape Questionnaire for Evaluating Contextual Experience in Public Spaces
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2017) Dokmeci Yorukoglu, Papatya Nur; Kang, Jian
An Indoor Soundscape Questionnaire aiming at the evaluation of indoor public sound environments was designed, statistically tested and presented. It was established through initial pilot studies and three main factors under contextual experience variable are established as (1) psychological factors, (2) space usage factors and (3) demographical factors. In addition to the questions on demographical and space usage factors, detailed questions on psychological factors are designed and statistically tested for expectation, perception and reaction categories of the psychological factor. The questionnaire was applied as part of a case study in enclosed library foyer environments to a group of 270 participants through non-experimental survey data sampling. The reliability and validity scores of the Indoor Soundscape Questionnaire were statistically tested and confirmed. Furthermore, statistical tests were used to derive relationships between contextual experience variables of psychological, space usage and demographical factors. Chi-square test of goodness-of-fit results showed statistical significances of demographical and space usage factors with the psychological factors.
Citation - WoS: 1
Citation - Scopus: 2
Investigating the Restorative Potential of Women's Home Environments
(Springer, 2023) Imamoglu, Cagri; Aksel, Elif
Although research on restorative environments suggest that natural settings have therapeutic effects in moderating stress and promoting positive experiences, there is a limited body of literature inquiring about the therapeutic potential of interior environments. The aim of the current study was to understand the restorative potential of home environments regarding theoretical background on restorative environments and architectural dimensions influencing well-being through the experiences of women. We interviewed 11 adult women using the photo-elicitation technique to investigate the perceived restorativeness of their home environments. Thematic analysis of qualitative data indicated that the design attributes of spaces play a significant role in promoting the restoration process. In addition to design attributes, we found family interaction, socialising, and engaging in activities could also be influential. Furthermore, the exploratory nature of the research highlighted the significance of individual meanings and personal factors in shaping the perceived restorativeness of home environments. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed to encourage future research in related fields that explore the relationship between residential settings and well-being.
Progression of color decision making in introductory design education
(Wiley, 2017) Ural, Sibel Ertez; Akbay, Saadet; Altay, Burçak
Color comprises both subjective and objective aspects within its contextual nature. Research on color design tends to explore this seemingly contradictory concerns from theoretical point of view, as well as architectural and design practice. The aim of this study was to observe subjective, intuitive or heuristic and objective, knowledge-based or analytical attitudes toward color in design education. In the study 84 introductory design students were surveyed progressively to understand their color decision criteria after completion of three 2-dimensional colored exercises, specific in terms of color education. Students' responses to open-ended questions were coded according to the 5 categories, under 2 decision making processes derived from the literature; heuristic approach: preferential and symbolic criteria, and analytic reasoning: formal, thematic, and systematic criteria. A distinction between associative and emotional aspects of symbolic criteria was also revealed by the data analysis. The findings showed a shift from heuristic responses to analytic reasoning, as expected. Additionally, it is also investigated that students not only used heuristic approaches but also analytical components (formal and systematic) of color decision making in varying degrees as well, even before any color subjects covered. Thematic color decisions became a major part of the students' design considerations upon completion of color subjects. The observed increase in the number of color criteria interrelated by the students' among almost all categories explicated a complex decision making process particularly in color design and education. These findings were expected to lead to some further understanding in color decision making in design.

Browse

Recent Submissions