| Abstract |
| As the quality of life increases, consumers` demands from the hospitals are gradually increasing beyond the treatments to the medical services. To meet this demand, the hospitals are attempting a change in interior design through emphasizing the uniqueness with differentiation and specialization of medical facilities. Children, unlike adults, especially get psychologically stimulated by the environment because of the particularity of hospital. Therefore children hospitals will need to design a visual environment not just including the medical services but also by considering the psychology of the children to alleviate the psychological anxiety.
Thereupon, this essay analyzed and investigated on the images of children hospital waiting room. According to the results, adults preferred pop art images the most in kindergarten and least preferred was the modernistic images, but in the hospital, naturalistic images were the most preferred because of the cleanliness and the least preferred was the pop art images. This means adults think of the cleanliness in the hospitals characteristically important compared to the children.
In case of preschool children, there were no significant difference in the preference between illustrations and pop art. Modernistic images were the least preferred but the preference of illustration images in hospital greatly increased and modernistic images were least preferred, so there seemed to be a significant difference and “comfortable” as a reason had the most number of votes. From here, we could see that the children prefer illustrative images so they can feel psychologically stable because special environment like hospitals can make them feel anxious not like comfortable and enjoyable kindergarten.
Through this study, by suggesting the direction and the improvements to make on the children`s hospital waiting room, we expect it will bring positive influence to the designing of children`s hospital waiting room. |
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| Key Words |
| 아동전문병원, 병원 대기공간, 병원 이미지, Children`s Hospital, Hospital waiting room, Hospital image |
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