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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Environmental Psychology
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1348023
This article is part of the Research Topic Psychology and Art: Exploring New Ways of Interaction View all 5 articles

Environmental therapy: interface design strategies for color graphics to assist navigational tasks in patients with visuospatial disorders through an analytic hierarchy process based on CIE color perception

Provisionally accepted
Weicong Li Weicong Li 1Shangbing Ma Shangbing Ma 2*Yueling Liu Yueling Liu 3*Haopai Lin Haopai Lin 4*Huabin Lv Huabin Lv 3Wenwen SHI Wenwen SHI 5
  • 1 University of Technology Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia
  • 2 Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Johor Darul Takzim, Malaysia
  • 3 Guangzhou Huashang College, Guangzhou, China
  • 4 Guangdong University of Finance and Economics, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
  • 5 Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics Dongfang College, Haining, China

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    Environmental therapy theory has been applied in the research of disease prevention, and the effectiveness of using color and graphic designs to assist patients with spatial orientation has been confirmed. Visual-spatial impairments are common symptoms associated with cognitive decline.However, the interaction and driving factors between these impairments and spatial color and graphic designs remain unclear. This paper first discusses the correlation between the characteristics of visual-spatial impairments and environmental factors and then investigates the color preferences of such patients based on the CIE 1976 color system and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP).Subsequently, the paper explores spatial design strategies conducive to spatial orientation from the perspective of adaptability to pathological characteristics, utilizing case study analysis. Findings: 1) Pathological characteristics of visual-spatial impairments (such as difficulties in spatial orientation and spatial neglect) are related to environmental factors; 2) Emotional attachment factors play a key role in patients' perception of satisfaction with environmental colors; 3) Color associations have the potential to strengthen spatial memory. Additionally, interface designs with high luminance, low saturation, and clear color differentiation facilitate patients' recognition of space. This paper posits that spatial interface design is a feasible approach to assist with spatial orientation, and it achieves this through a mediating process that progresses from influencing visual stimuli to cognitive memory and then to behavioral orientation. The article provides insights into the operational feasibility of this method.

    Keywords: Visual-spatial barriers, Spatial Orientation, color and graphics, Hierarchical analysis, interface design, Environmental Design

    Received: 01 Dec 2023; Accepted: 03 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Li, Ma, Liu, Lin, Lv and SHI. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Shangbing Ma, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Johor Darul Takzim, Malaysia
    Yueling Liu, Guangzhou Huashang College, Guangzhou, China
    Haopai Lin, Guangdong University of Finance and Economics, Guangzhou, 510320, Guangdong Province, China

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