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The present study is following a series of research investigations on design resources coming from collected data referring to users’ awareness and preferences. The aim of this research is to test the Healthcare Environmental Color Index as a basis for practitioners in the field of healthcare design. An array of color samples selected from previous research, have been presented to the respondents via an online survey, in order to identify the preferences of the two groups on the relation between environmental color and health. As a result of the first experiment and through the comparison of processed data, the maximum percentage of respondents from each group is validating the relation between environmental color and health. For the second experiment we intend to highlight the patterns of color preferences for each group, and thus to test the color samples healing function. The compared data also showed a higher awareness of Koreans than Romanians on the potential of color applied to healing environment. Last but not least in the third experiment we show the top five color samples preferred by each group. It is significant that the comparison of the results validated once more some of our previous findings related to the healthcare environment, such as: the general preference for the green hue (associated to fatigue relax according to color psychology) and the blue hue (sedation release effect) but also the yellow hue – associated to bright energy. Three out of the top five preferred color samples have been identical to both groups while the other two samples have shown characteristic variations. These results show that similarities are strong and can be used in a glocal design strategy as an accessible tool for any practitioner. Based on the Healthcare Environmental Color Index and users’ preferences analysis, a new design culture for healthcare can be established and developed.

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Abstract
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Interrogations and Glocal Context
1.2 Research Background
2. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
2.1 The Notion of Place Applied to the Healthcare Environment
2.2 Anthropological Knowledge and Users’ Analysis
3. SURVEY INVESTIGATION
3.1 First Phase of the Investigation: Users’ Awareness
3.2 Second Phase of the Investigation: Users’ Patterns of Color Preferences
3.3 Third Phase of the Investigation: Users’ Top Five Color Sample Preferences
4. DISCUSSION
5. CONCLUSION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
REFERENCES

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저자

• Ioana Ardelean [ Prof., Dept. of U-Design, Inje Univ., Korea ] First Author.
• Jiyoung Oh [ Research Prof., Research Institute of Ecology, Pusan National Univ., Korea, participating author ]
• Heykyung Park [ Prof., Dept. of Interior Architecture, Inje Univ., Korea ] Corresponding Author

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• 간행물명

  International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology(IJACT)

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  2288-7202

• eISSN

  2288-7318

• 수록기간

  2013~2025

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 600 DDC 700