Eye Movements while Ascending and Descending Staircases in Koshien Hotel: Comparison with Architecture Studio
利友 鈴木, 甚幸 岡崎, Suzuki Toshitomo, Shigeyuki Okazaki · Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB) · 2011
We conducted experiments in which participants wearing an eye camera ascended and descended two staircases in the former Koshien Hotel designed by Arata Endo and one staircase in the Architecture Studio, a contemporary university building. Analyses and discussion, which concentrated on the relationship among footings, visible occluding edges, distributions of eye movement direction, and total fixation time by fixation spot, found similarities and differences of eye movement directions and fixation spots among the staircases. The staircases in the Koshien Hotel were probably designed for rich spatial experiences while ascending them due to great changes of eye movements. However, they were also designed for changes of eye movements while descending them.