[ تهذيب السلوك بأعمال التصميم الداخلي ]

Volume 18, Issue 2, October 2016, Pages 607–612

 

Amany Mashour Hendy<sup>1

1</sup> Interior Design and Furniture Department, Faculty of Applied Arts, Damietta University, Egypt

Original language: Arabic

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Abstract

While practicing the many daily activities, man always seeks the different means of comfort and luxury. Interior design is an effective tool to provide such comfort and luxury as it is used by any designer to create his vision in order to satisfy space users and their needs when practicing their indoors daily activities. The designer uses interior designs to create designs that go beyond just providing comfort and luxury, and to affect space users and their behavior negatively or positively. Furthermore, the continuous technological advancement and all the means of luxury, which vary from elements of the interior design, accessories, furniture, air, lighting, and sound volume, they all affects one's behavior inside any space. The problem of research is that there are many elements which negatively affect one's behavior within interior spaces such as: the different types of materials, the various means of technology nowadays, and providing different alternatives and means of attracting customers. Thus, the designer has to be aware of the indicators of the design lines and the used shapes, and their affinity with each other and their effect upon the space user and his/her indoors daily activities. So how do designs and the different means of technology contribute to change one's behavior? What are the followed procedures in creating a specific design which helps to change the user's behavior? How does the mind comprehend the elements of design and its effect upon behavior? What are the techniques of behavior altering? This research aims at identifying the techniques of behavior altering by using interior design, all while specifying the solutions related to design, which positively affects human behavior. Also, this research aims at identifying how the designer chooses the designing lines, which appeals to the space user, through analytical studies and survey.

Author Keywords: Behavior changing, Elements of interior design, Awareness, User's behavior, Designing lines, Positive design, Negative design.