Visitors' perceptions of the impact of spatial organization on wayfinding qualities in Kuala Lumpur Islamic Arts Museum

Museums are not only architectural spaces contain artefacts. Visitors come to museums for both entertainment and education and in other word: ‘edutainment’. Thus, every visitor has his/her own perception and interpretation of artefacts and it is the museum organization duty to enhance this percept...

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Main Author:	Bakhtiari, Mina
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Communication in design Signs and signboards - Design Communication in architectural design
Online Access:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48356/1/FRSB%202012%2013R.pdf
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spelling	my-upm-ir.483562016-08-29T06:46:40Z Visitors' perceptions of the impact of spatial organization on wayfinding qualities in Kuala Lumpur Islamic Arts Museum 2012-08 Bakhtiari, Mina Museums are not only architectural spaces contain artefacts. Visitors come to museums for both entertainment and education and in other word: ‘edutainment’. Thus, every visitor has his/her own perception and interpretation of artefacts and it is the museum organization duty to enhance this perception as desirable as possible. Since perceiving the educational dimension of museums will be eased when people are moving and routing through the galleries and exhibitions, the way in which people are routed through the exhibitions can affect the overall perception. Since the plan configuration of Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia is listed as plans with less simplicity, so the wayfinding problem can occur in the museum and following this problem, visitors are not able to perceive the educational message of the museum through the exhibits. However according to the literature there is a number of factors that are likely to affect wayfinding inside an environment and this study is an effort to find the effect of these factors on visitors’ wayfinding inside the museums beside the effect of floor plan configuration. Method of inquiry applied in this study is survey; and the flow of the research starts with conducting a confirmation test in order to confirm the observed problems of Kuala Lumpur Islamic Arts Museum regarding wayfinding issue. Once the survey was chosen as the method, the survey questionnaire was designed in order to gather the data in the form of categorical questions; therefore, the method to analyze the data was chosen to be Chi-square analysis. The significant results of this study argue that between ‘spatial characteristics’ and ‘visitors’ demographic characteristics’ this is the latter that affects wayfinding inside the museum through constructing visitors’ expectation and consequently the perceived quality of the museum. Communication in design Signs and signboards - Design Communication in architectural design 2012-08 Thesis http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48356/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48356/1/FRSB%202012%2013R.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Putra Malaysia Communication in design Signs and signboards - Design Communication in architectural design
institution	Universiti Putra Malaysia
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language	English
topic	Communication in design Signs and signboards - Design Communication in architectural design
spellingShingle	Communication in design Signs and signboards - Design Communication in architectural design Bakhtiari, Mina Visitors' perceptions of the impact of spatial organization on wayfinding qualities in Kuala Lumpur Islamic Arts Museum
description	Museums are not only architectural spaces contain artefacts. Visitors come to museums for both entertainment and education and in other word: ‘edutainment’. Thus, every visitor has his/her own perception and interpretation of artefacts and it is the museum organization duty to enhance this perception as desirable as possible. Since perceiving the educational dimension of museums will be eased when people are moving and routing through the galleries and exhibitions, the way in which people are routed through the exhibitions can affect the overall perception. Since the plan configuration of Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia is listed as plans with less simplicity, so the wayfinding problem can occur in the museum and following this problem, visitors are not able to perceive the educational message of the museum through the exhibits. However according to the literature there is a number of factors that are likely to affect wayfinding inside an environment and this study is an effort to find the effect of these factors on visitors’ wayfinding inside the museums beside the effect of floor plan configuration. Method of inquiry applied in this study is survey; and the flow of the research starts with conducting a confirmation test in order to confirm the observed problems of Kuala Lumpur Islamic Arts Museum regarding wayfinding issue. Once the survey was chosen as the method, the survey questionnaire was designed in order to gather the data in the form of categorical questions; therefore, the method to analyze the data was chosen to be Chi-square analysis. The significant results of this study argue that between ‘spatial characteristics’ and ‘visitors’ demographic characteristics’ this is the latter that affects wayfinding inside the museum through constructing visitors’ expectation and consequently the perceived quality of the museum.
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title	Visitors' perceptions of the impact of spatial organization on wayfinding qualities in Kuala Lumpur Islamic Arts Museum
title_short	Visitors' perceptions of the impact of spatial organization on wayfinding qualities in Kuala Lumpur Islamic Arts Museum
title_full	Visitors' perceptions of the impact of spatial organization on wayfinding qualities in Kuala Lumpur Islamic Arts Museum
title_fullStr	Visitors' perceptions of the impact of spatial organization on wayfinding qualities in Kuala Lumpur Islamic Arts Museum
title_full_unstemmed	Visitors' perceptions of the impact of spatial organization on wayfinding qualities in Kuala Lumpur Islamic Arts Museum
title_sort	visitors' perceptions of the impact of spatial organization on wayfinding qualities in kuala lumpur islamic arts museum
granting_institution	Universiti Putra Malaysia
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url	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48356/1/FRSB%202012%2013R.pdf
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Visitors' perceptions of the impact of spatial organization on wayfinding qualities in Kuala Lumpur Islamic Arts Museum

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