A Study on Wayfinding Support in regards to Innovations in Medical, Information and Architectural Technologies

成长和变化的主题是医院建筑固有的，在这方面进行了各种研究项目。然而，近年来各种各样的质变导致了一种难以把握总体观点的情况。特别是，需要向医院用户提供基本信息，以改善医院建筑的易读性，即寻路支持。本研究的目的在于提升医院环境中对诊断与治疗技术创新的寻路支持。对大型医院的计算机寻路支持系统进行了一些调查。调查结果连同对该领域创新的文献综述一起，在一个发达的网站上公布，并纳入一个数据库系统。然后，对日间手术中心进行了一系列的调查，因为这些设施被认为会给目前的医疗保健系统带来巨大的创新。这些调查是在英国进行的，因为起源于美国的趋势影响了英国的医疗保健，英国历史上拥有与日本相似的国家医疗保险制度。调查结果在各个学院公布，并在一个网站上公布。此外，还探索了在儿童医院使用图画书以及使用网站本身作为寻路支持系统。在国际领域，与IBPE的成员、国际建筑性能评价的成员、参加国际会议的项目成员，如美国edra、环境设计研究协会年会、欧洲iaps、国际人-环境研究协会、西班牙拉科尼亚会议以及在加拿大蒙特利尔举行的健康与设计大会进行了持续的对话。

The topic of growth and change is inherent in the hospital architecture, and various research projects were carried out in this regard. However, in the current years a variety of qualitative changes resulted-in a situation where a general perspective is difficult to grasp. Especially, a need has risen to provide essential information to the hospital users for the betterment of legibility in hospital architecture, namely wayfinding support. The 'purpose of this study is to enhance the wayfinding support in hospital environment in regards to the innovations in diagnostic and treatment technologies.A number of surveys were carried out regarding computerized wayfinding support systems in large-scale hospitals. Together with literature reviews on innovations in the field, the survey results are presented in a developed web-site and are incorporated into a data-base system.. Then, a series of surveys were conducted on day surgery centers since these facilities are esteemed to bring about drastic innovation in present health-care.system. These survey were carried in the United Kingdom because the trend originated in the United States of America has influenced the health-care in the UK where historically has similar national health insurance system as in Japan. The survey results were presented in various academies and published in a web-site. Also, the use of picture books in children hospital has been explored as well as the use of web-site itself as a wayfinding support system.A continuous dialogue has been carried out in the international field with those members of IBPE, International Building Performance Evaluation, project members at international conferences as American edra, environmental design research association, annual meeting, European iaps, international association for people-environment studies, La Cornia conference in Spain, and Congress on Health and Design held in Montreal, Canada.