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The effect of sound environment on spatial knowledge acquisition in a virtual outpatient polyclinic
This study examines the impact of the sound environment on spatial knowledge acquisition in a virtual outpatient polyclinic. Outpatient polyclinics have a salient role in determining early outpatient treatments of COVID-19 to prevent hospitalization or death and reduce the burden on hospitals. Howev...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9747064/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34971848 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2021.103672 |
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author | Dalirnaghadeh, Donya Yilmazer, Semiha |
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description | This study examines the impact of the sound environment on spatial knowledge acquisition in a virtual outpatient polyclinic. Outpatient polyclinics have a salient role in determining early outpatient treatments of COVID-19 to prevent hospitalization or death and reduce the burden on hospitals. However, they have not been widely investigated in the literature. The studies on spatial knowledge have identified environmental elements mainly related to vision with no focus on sound. Currently, there is limited research on the effect of sound environment on spatial knowledge acquisition in virtual outpatient polyclinics. In this study, a virtual simulated outpatient polyclinic has been created with varying levels of visual and audio cues. Eighty participants were assigned to one of the four groups: a control (no visual signage), a visual (visual signage), an only audio (no landmarks and no visual signage), and an audio-visual group. The virtual environment was presented as a video walkthrough with passive exploration to test spatial knowledge acquisition with tasks based on the landmark-route-survey model. The results showed that a combination of visual signage and sound environment resulted in higher spatial knowledge acquisition. No significant difference was found between the performance of the visual group and the control group that shows that signage alone cannot aid spatial knowledge in virtual outpatient polyclinics. Data from the only audio group suggests that landmarks associated with sound can compensate for the lack of visual landmarks that may help design a wayfinding system for users with visual disabilities. |
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spelling | pubmed-97470642022-12-14 The effect of sound environment on spatial knowledge acquisition in a virtual outpatient polyclinic Dalirnaghadeh, Donya Yilmazer, Semiha Appl Ergon Article This study examines the impact of the sound environment on spatial knowledge acquisition in a virtual outpatient polyclinic. Outpatient polyclinics have a salient role in determining early outpatient treatments of COVID-19 to prevent hospitalization or death and reduce the burden on hospitals. However, they have not been widely investigated in the literature. The studies on spatial knowledge have identified environmental elements mainly related to vision with no focus on sound. Currently, there is limited research on the effect of sound environment on spatial knowledge acquisition in virtual outpatient polyclinics. In this study, a virtual simulated outpatient polyclinic has been created with varying levels of visual and audio cues. Eighty participants were assigned to one of the four groups: a control (no visual signage), a visual (visual signage), an only audio (no landmarks and no visual signage), and an audio-visual group. The virtual environment was presented as a video walkthrough with passive exploration to test spatial knowledge acquisition with tasks based on the landmark-route-survey model. The results showed that a combination of visual signage and sound environment resulted in higher spatial knowledge acquisition. No significant difference was found between the performance of the visual group and the control group that shows that signage alone cannot aid spatial knowledge in virtual outpatient polyclinics. Data from the only audio group suggests that landmarks associated with sound can compensate for the lack of visual landmarks that may help design a wayfinding system for users with visual disabilities. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2022-04 2021-12-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9747064/ /pubmed/34971848 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2021.103672 Text en © 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Dalirnaghadeh, Donya Yilmazer, Semiha The effect of sound environment on spatial knowledge acquisition in a virtual outpatient polyclinic |
title | The effect of sound environment on spatial knowledge acquisition in a virtual outpatient polyclinic |
title_full | The effect of sound environment on spatial knowledge acquisition in a virtual outpatient polyclinic |
title_fullStr | The effect of sound environment on spatial knowledge acquisition in a virtual outpatient polyclinic |
title_full_unstemmed | The effect of sound environment on spatial knowledge acquisition in a virtual outpatient polyclinic |
title_short | The effect of sound environment on spatial knowledge acquisition in a virtual outpatient polyclinic |
title_sort | effect of sound environment on spatial knowledge acquisition in a virtual outpatient polyclinic |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9747064/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34971848 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2021.103672 |
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