PSYC 3450 Chapter 11: PSYC 3450: Chapter 11-Planning and Design for Human Behaviour
19 Nov 2015
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Introduction: marriage b/w design and behavioural sciences centering on human behaviour. Influence: environment contributes to behaviour and we influence the env. In determining behaviour than individual personalities: a design can support/facilitate certain behaviours but cannot reliably determine them. The process of design: fostering communication: congruence: fit b/w buildings and their use, achieving greater congruence/habitability can be done by designing in flexibility to ensure the space can support many behaviours, design alternatives: different ways we can think of to design/redesign a setting. Privacy: personal space and territoriality are behavioural mechanisms that regulate privacy; crowding and loss of perceived control represent failures to achieve it, we are more worried about private conversations being heard than being seen. Lighter rooms are seen as more spacious and even lighter shades of the same colour do the same. Illumination: popular reports, not research implies fluorescent light is similar to natural daylight leading to higher productivity and better health.
