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User Centered Design Approach to Lighting Design of Healthcare Facilities

Arzu Cilasun Kunduraci

Abstract


This study focuses on the lighting design of healthcare spaces from users’ perspective. Lighting has functional, emotional, non-visual and biological effects on humans. It enables security, comfort, efficiency and wellbeing. However, generally lighting design of healthcare is not considered on a preferential basis. Within this study by using User Centered Design (UCD) approach, lighting design expectations of healthcare facility are analyzed. Methodology of the study consist of a questionnaire with 163 patients in a private general hospital in Izmir Turkey. The data were analyzed through SPSS software. The evaluations and analysis of the study aims to reveal insight of users’ lighting design expectations from healthcare facilities and guide future design studies for healthcare facilities.

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