PMID- 37847986
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20231113
LR  - 20231113
IS  - 1872-9126 (Electronic)
IS  - 0003-6870 (Linking)
VI  - 114
DP  - 2024 Jan
TI  - Improving wayfinding in hospitals for people with diverse needs and abilities: An 
      exploratory approach based on multi-criteria decision making.
PG  - 104149
LID - S0003-6870(23)00187-4 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.apergo.2023.104149 [doi]
AB  - Hospital wayfinding systems that are based solely on signage do not provide 
      adequate solutions for wayfinding needs, especially for users with impairments. 
      Moreover, the interaction between user characteristics and the inner space of the 
      building also determines wayfinding efficiency. The aims of this study, 
      therefore, were to identify architectural features that affect spatial 
      orientation and wayfinding behaviors; demonstrate the implementation of a 
      multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approach for improving wayfinding in a 
      diverse range of users; and produce a set of quantitative values (i.e., weights) 
      for each selected architectural feature, based on the individual's preferences. 
      Doing so could enable the formulating of practical design guidelines for hospital 
      buildings, tailored to the needs and abilities of the users, to minimize 
      disorientation and confusion - as demonstrated in this paper through a case 
      study. The MCDM approach was chosen as it is based on observations whereby 
      wayfinding resembles a continuous decision-making process, throughout which, 
      users continuously select those architectural features that they perceive as 
      having the greatest wayfinding value.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2023 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Morag, Ido
AU  - Morag I
AD  - Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, School of Industrial Engineering and 
      Management, Ramat Gan, 52526, Israel. Electronic address: Ido-ilit@013.net.il.
FAU - Sonmez, Volkan
AU  - Sonmez V
AD  - Hacettepe University, Department of Industrial Engineering, Ankara, 06800, 
      Turkey. Electronic address: volkansz@hacettepe.edu.tr.
FAU - Van Puyvelde, Astrid
AU  - Van Puyvelde A
AD  - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre for Industrial Management/Traffic & 
      Infrastructure/Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Celestijnenlaan 300A, Hevelee, 
      3001, Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: astrid.vanpuyvelde@kuleuven.be.
FAU - Pintelon, Liliane
AU  - Pintelon L
AD  - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre for Industrial Management/Traffic & 
      Infrastructure/Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Celestijnenlaan 300A, Hevelee, 
      3001, Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: liliane.pintelon@kuleuven.be.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20231015
PL  - England
TA  - Appl Ergon
JT  - Applied ergonomics
JID - 0261412
SB  - IM
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Hospitals
MH  - *Orientation, Spatial
MH  - Confusion
MH  - Decision Making
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Architectural features that affect spatial orientation and wayfinding behaviors
OT  - Inclusive wayfinding systems
OT  - Minimizing disorientation and confusion
OT  - Multi-criteria decision-making
OT  - People with diverse needs and abilities
OT  - Wayfinding in hospitals
COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known 
      competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared 
      to influence the work reported in this paper.
EDAT- 2023/10/18 00:43
MHDA- 2023/11/13 06:42
CRDT- 2023/10/17 18:02
PHST- 2023/04/17 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/09/13 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2023/10/04 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/11/13 06:42 [medline]
PHST- 2023/10/18 00:43 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/10/17 18:02 [entrez]
AID - S0003-6870(23)00187-4 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.apergo.2023.104149 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Appl Ergon. 2024 Jan;114:104149. doi: 10.1016/j.apergo.2023.104149. Epub 2023 Oct 
      15.