Hung-Yu Chen   Kiminobu Sato   Meng-Cong Zheng   
JOURNAL OF ASIAN ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING ENGINEERING 20(4) 383-397 Jul 2021
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
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
<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 Jul 2019
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...
Bulletin of Japanese Society for the Science of Design 63(3) 3_103-3_110 2016
The diversity of present childcare designs somehow seems incapable of developing parent-child communication. This study therefore investigates the key to develop such communication and proposes suggestions for new designs. First, by collecting chi...
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF JSSD 67 162-162 2020
<p>For elderly society, the "kodokushi" is a trigger that elderly have a few connections with others. Creating a direct way to have social connection might a way to solve this problem. This study focusses on encouraging elderly egress and what the...
Chiaki Tsukamoto   Kiminobu Sato   
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF JSSD 64 348-348 2017
The evaluation of communication by the behave observation for parent-child has been focused on child of it. But on this paper, taking mother's action to consider her station for fairly balanced position, and based on this perspective, new category...
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF JSSD 63 144-144 2016
“the KAN-GU project”, We promoted is a new idea of design for children. Through any play, our KAN-GU stimulates child’s sense of touch and then developers a communication between child and parent. This idea reveals two points; 1 ...