Hung-Yu Chen   Kiminobu Sato   Meng-Cong Zheng   
JOURNAL OF ASIAN ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING ENGINEERING 20(4) 383-397 2021年7月
This study investigated the wayfinding strategy and efficiency. Experiments involving 44 participants (22 Japanese and 22 Taiwanese nationals) were conducted in Tamsui, Taiwan and Yokohama, Japan. Experimental tools included electronic and paper m...
Ming Lun Li   Ming Shih Chen   Kiminobu Sato   
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 1256 AISC 55-65 2020年
This study investigates the influence of nationality, ages, and address systems on the use of digital maps in wayfinding. Examining how user—whether they are merely browsing maps or actively trying to find a destination—perceive and interact with ...
LI Ming Lun   CHEN Ming Shih   SATO Kiminobu   
Journal of the Science of Design 4(2) 2_67-2_74 2020年
<p>This study investigates the influence of nationality, ages, and address systems on the use of digital maps in wayfinding. The examination shows how user-whether they are merely browsing maps or actively trying to find a destination-perceive and...
Hung-Yu Chen   Kiminobu Sato   Meng-Cong Zheng   
JOURNAL OF ASIAN ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING ENGINEERING 18(4) 298-310 2019年7月
This study was conducted in the city of Yokohama, which has featured several charming tourist attractions such as China town and old Western-style historical buildings, as the place of study to investigate the difference between tourists using pap...
Community facilities for the elderly are built mainly for those people as means to improve their quality of life. However, this improvement can be further enhanced through exchanges with different generations of the community. Outlines of the faci...
Currently, there are 18 Japanese cities where tramways or streetcars are running. In many of those cities supporting groups are established and they develop various supporting programs. Partly due to the times since their establishment, those prog...
The necessity for try to think about the way of being has been born in the fixed play equipment set up in the park due to the accident which has happened frequently for these several years now. Then, the installation situation of the park play equ...
Stations are full of sounds ; some of those sound informations are provided by railway companies intentionally. Field study and questionnaire on the passengers' behaviors were made at the stations where multiple lines cross to find out the relatio...