TY - JOUR
T1 - A Conceptual Visibility Framework for Linking Spatial Metrics With Experience and Organizational Outcomes
AU - Lim, Lisa
AU - Zimring, Craig M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2020.
PY - 2020/10/1
Y1 - 2020/10/1
N2 - Visibility enables or prohibits healthcare professionals’ ability to monitor, control, or manage situations in healthcare settings. Visibility has a significant impact on patient safety, including patient fall rates and mortality rates, and on the performance of healthcare professionals, including situational awareness and communication. This article provides a conceptual visibility framework synthesizing visibility analysis models, tools, and metrics. The framework uses four dimensions that capture the experiential phenomena of users, such as visual relationships between specific sets of users/targets, how the orientation of the seeing entity changes visibility patterns, and the unequal visibility levels of seeing and being seen. The framework particularly focuses on how the layout and the resulting patterns of visibility reflect and influence the user experience and organizational functions. By illustrating the similarities and differences of various models in the framework according to the dimensions, this article describes how various visibility analysis models, tools, and metrics can be applied to design and research.
AB - Visibility enables or prohibits healthcare professionals’ ability to monitor, control, or manage situations in healthcare settings. Visibility has a significant impact on patient safety, including patient fall rates and mortality rates, and on the performance of healthcare professionals, including situational awareness and communication. This article provides a conceptual visibility framework synthesizing visibility analysis models, tools, and metrics. The framework uses four dimensions that capture the experiential phenomena of users, such as visual relationships between specific sets of users/targets, how the orientation of the seeing entity changes visibility patterns, and the unequal visibility levels of seeing and being seen. The framework particularly focuses on how the layout and the resulting patterns of visibility reflect and influence the user experience and organizational functions. By illustrating the similarities and differences of various models in the framework according to the dimensions, this article describes how various visibility analysis models, tools, and metrics can be applied to design and research.
KW - agent-based
KW - evidence-based design
KW - research tool
KW - space syntax
KW - visibility analysis
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85084541941&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1937586720916825
DO - 10.1177/1937586720916825
M3 - Article
C2 - 32338062
AN - SCOPUS:85084541941
SN - 1937-5867
VL - 13
SP - 225
EP - 239
JO - Health Environments Research and Design Journal
JF - Health Environments Research and Design Journal
IS - 4
ER -