Adolescents have strong desires; therefore it’s necessary to build different types of community facilities for apartment complexes that suit the needs of adolescents. If you plan to build a community facility that considers the needs of adolescents, ...
Adolescents have strong desires; therefore it’s necessary to build different types of community facilities for apartment complexes that suit the needs of adolescents. If you plan to build a community facility that considers the needs of adolescents, you will contribute much to their development. The purpose of this study is to analyze the current status of community facilities within apartment complexes in Seoul and look at how adolescents use these facilities. Moreover, the study also aims to analyze the subjective satisfaction levels of adolescents, their emotional responses, and the correlation between them. The purpose of this study is thus to better understand the needs of adolescents and to develop a model of community facilities that is focused on satisfying adolescents’ needs. To achieve the aims of the research, current community facilities were analyzed in order to understand current problems. The problems were ascertained by conducting surveys on 371 adolescents in twelve apartment complexes, which included emotional vocabulary tests and a brainwave test on 69 of these adolescents.
This study is concerned with evaluating the perceptions of teenagers towards learning, cultural, and exercise facilities. A survey was performed to examine the preference for each facility using multiple adjectives. 179 words were collected from the survey. These adjectives were positioned on the IRI adjective images to obtain representative words such as “noble”, “gentle”, and “cheerful” for the purpose of analysis. Furthermore, each representative word was assigned a color and then made into a simulation for the EEG experiment.
The results of the study revealed that, to begin with, a large proportion of the residential space was utilized for leisure and recreational activities and yet, the area was generally devoted to programs targeting adults and children, and rarely targeted teenagers. Second, the survey for facility usage by teenagers indicated that a high percentage of elementary, middle, high school, and college students demanded a variety of community facilities and, in many cases, the need wasn’t met. Furthermore, due to significant dependency in the educational level and gender of the teenagers in choosing a community facility, it is important to arrange a variety of facilities that reflect the needs of such teenagers. Third, the results from the survey that asked to describe the preference of a facility were different from the results obtained in the actual measurement of the physiological signals when the candidates were viewing the images of the facilities. Fourth, the results obtained from the EEGs indicated that female students compared to male students had higher EEG signals and the signals were especially activated when viewing the “cheerful” images. Fifth, the EEG signals of the teenagers in different educational levels indicated that EEG signals of high school students were more activated compared to that of middle school students and both groups responded to the “cheerful” images with high EEG signals.
Based on the results, it was revealed that there is a fixed perception about the function of each facility in the minds of adolescents according to their experiences. Furthermore, we found out that the youth has established static images of each functionally different facility through their experience and learning. This finding indicates that physiological response of the youth could be different from their EEG. Therefore, it is imperative to plan community facilities in an apartment complex in a way to connect the space function with the emotional characteristics of the youth in order to support and encourage energetic activities and learning of the community youth.