This paper presents some results of a larger study – in human factors field - designed to follow-up the interrelationships between users and the hospital environment, regarding its spatial orientation. Among some tools that were used, here are presented the results of a questionnaire that contains several questions about user’s perception of hospital’s environment, perception of colors, comparing it colors to a color scale and also questions proposed by Lawton and Kallai’ Scale (2002)that compares wayfinding spatial strategies among gender.
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