Chapter 1 quiz Flashcards
Which of the following would be the most important consideration in the design of
ergonomically correct chairs for air traffic controllers?
A. Adjustability
B. Firm cushions
C. Lumbar support
D. Tilt and swivel capability
A. Adjustability
When designing a computer work station, which of the following factors is LEAST important?
A. Keyboard height
B. VDT angle
C. Screen glare
D. Worksurface depth
C. Screen glare
Symmetrically positioned identical furnishings in a college dormitory room shared by two people represent an attempt to satisfy which psychological need?
A. Personal space
B. Territoriality
C. Group interaction
D. Personalization
B. Territoriality
Proxemics might assist a designer in?
A. Deciding on the size of a doctor’s examination room
B. Determining where to locate the office of the president within an office suite
C. Planning the size and shape of a conference table
D. Making decisions about the type and spacing of seating in an audiovisual presentation room
D. Making decisions about the type and spacing of seating in an audiovisual presentation room
Most People in the United States typically conduct business and relate to strangers at which distance?
A. 1.5 ft to 4ft
B. 4ft to 12ft
C 7ft to 12ft
B. 4ft to 12ft
A clinet complains that her office is too hot. The interior designer could most easily improve the situation by suggesting an accessory that affects what?
A. Convection
B. Ventilation
C. Evaporation
D. Conduction
C. Evaporation
An interior designer would most likely use anthropometric information to?
A. Design counter tops for a public rest room
B. Determine the percentage of children who would be comfortable on custom designed benches in a puppet theater
C. Develop the best position for multiple VDT screens in a stock trader’s
workstation
D. Evaluate a new chair design that has just come on the market
B. Determine the percentage of children who would be comfortable on custom designed benches in a puppet theater
Which type of information regarding a multipurpose room in an apartment building for the elderly would be LEAST important for the interior designer to give to the mechanical engineer?
A. The ages of the residents in the apartment building
B. The types of activities that commonly occur in the space
C. An estimate of the number of people using the room
D. A copy of the reflected ceiling plan
A. The ages of the residents in the apartment building
A library is being designed to occupy only one portion of a building, and a complete set of drawings is available for the building. What information would be the most important to obtain from the field survey?
A. The locations of structural elements
B. Existing natural light sources
C. Sources of noise within the building
D. The locations and capacities of electrical power
C. Sources of noise within the building
Which of the following is a true statement about the difference between a programmatic concept and a design concept?
A. A design concept specifies a particular way to achieve the programmatic concepts.
B. There are as many programmatic concepts for a problem as there are design concepts.
C. A design concept is a performance requirement.
D. Programmatic concepts are developed concurrently with design concepts.
A. A design concept specifies a particular way to achieve the programmatic concepts.
For an interior designer conducting a programming interview with a client for a small clothing boutique, which is the LEAST important questions to ask?
A. Which items are most frequently purchased on impulse?
B. Will rest rooms be available to the customers?
C. What amount of merchandise will be on display?
D. What is the relationship between the cash/wrap counter and the dressing room?
B. Will rest rooms be available to the customers?
Which of the following statements is generally false regarding programming interviews?
A. They can verify the accuracy of questionnaires.
B. They minimize inaccurate results from ambiguous
questions.
C. They allow for the revelation of information that the programmer may not have considered.
D. They make efficient use of the interviewer’s time.
D. They make efficient use of the interviewer’s time.
What is the Programming FiveStep Process?
A. Establishing goals
B. Collection and analyzing facts
C. Uncovering and testing concepts
D. Determining needs
E. Stating the problem
Definition: Establishes the order of importance of things such as size position orsocial values.
A. Priority
B. Hierarchy
C. Character
D. Density
A. Priority
What are the four major considerations to take when programming?
Form, function, economy and time
Definition: Is a response to the desired image the client wants to project. (use of material, lighting, space and etc.)
A. Density
B. Service groupings
C. Character
D. Hierarchy
C. Character
Definition: Include mechanical systems, as well as other functions that support the use of a space.
A. Priority
B. Service Groupings
C. Activity Groupings
D. People Groupings
B. Service Groupings
Definition: States whether activities should be integrated or separated and compartmentalized.
A. Character
B. Service Groupings
C. People Groupings
D. Activity Groupings
D. Activity Groupings
Definition: States the degree of massing of people in a space and is derived from the physical, social and emotional characteristics of the group.
B. People Grouping
C. Activity Grouping
D. Service Grouping
B. People Grouping
Home Base is related to the concept of territoriality and is a place where a person can maintain his or her individuality.
A. True
B. False
A. True
This is one of the most common programming concepts and includes the affinities of people and activities.
Relationships
This concept is a response to the goal of promoting the effective exchange of information or ideas.
Communications
This concept refers to how the project will promote or prevent sociability and how it will relate to its neighboring spaces.
Neighbors
This concept relates to segregating the flow of people, service access and other activities of a building or space.
Separated flow
This is a concept that is a response to the goal of promoting interaction among people.
Mixed flow
This is a concept that is often required for both people and objects where a specific series of events or processes is required.
Sequential flow
This refers to providing a point of reference within a space or building to help keep people from feeling lost within a larger context.
Orientation
What are the three components of Flexibility?
Expandability, convertibility, and versatility
This allows for extra space for a dynamic activity (one likely to change) instead of fitting the space precisely to a static activity.
Tolerance
This focuses attention on life safety and the conceptual ways to achieve it.
Safety
This refers to ways that both people and property can be protected based on the value of the potential loss Minimum, medium or maximum.
Security controls
This can be achieved by keeping the heated area to a minimum, keeping heat flow to a minimum, using materials produced using low amounts of energy, using recycled materials, and using recyclable materials.
Energy conservation
This explores the kinds of controls necessary to meet human comfort needs, including air temperature, light, sound, and humidity
Environmental controls
This determines if the project must be completed in stages to meet time and cost schedules.
Phasing
This explores ways to establish a realistic preview of costs and a balanced budget to meet the clients available funds.
Cost Control
This is the measure of the size, proportions and range of motion of the human body
Anthropometrics
This is the study of the relation between human physiology and the physical environment.
Ergonomics
This measures the human body at rest.
Static anthropometrics
This measures the body while performing activities
Dynamic anthropometrics
What is the most important factor to include in the design of workstations and selection of chairs?
Adjustability
What is a BTU
British thermal unit
This is the transfer of heat through the movement of a fluid either a gas or liquid.
Convection
This occurs when moisture changes into vapor as a person perspires or breathes.
Evaporation
This is the transfer of heat energy through electromagnetic waves from one surface
to a colder surface.
Radiation
This is the transfer of heat through direct contact between two objects of different temperatures.
Conduction
This is a value that has been developed to combined the effects of air temperature, humidity and air movement.
Air temperature
What is the range percentage of comfortable relative humidity?
30% and 60%
This is the weighted average of the various surface temperature in a room, the angle of exposure of the occupant to these surfaces and any sunlight present.
MRT (mean radiant temperature)
This is a particular place with definable boundaries and objects in which a standing pattern of behavior occurs at a particular time.
Behavior setting
Abraham Maslow’s conceptualized what theory?
Hierarchy of Needs
This is a fundamental aspect of human behavior and refers to people’s need to lay claim to the spaces they occupy and the things they own.
Territoriality
Edward T. Hall created the term?
Proxemics
This is the idea that interrelated observations and theories about how people use space as a specialized elaboration of culture.
Proxemics
1-1/2 ft to 2-1/2 ft close and 2-1/2ft to 4ft is defining what type of distance?
Personal
4ft to 7ft close and 7ft to 12ft far defines what type of distance?
Social distance
12ft outward defines what type of distance?
Public distance
This process uses a laser based instrument with an on board computer to measure the distance, horizontal and vertical angles of the instruments laser beam to a reflective prism target.
Electronic distance measurement (EDM)
