Eye Fixation Characteristics in the Understanding and Grasping of Architectural Drawings : A Case Study on the Housing Plan of Multiple Dwelling ouses

Abstract

In this paper, we estimated that how students understand and grasp a housing plan in the light of period of learning architecture, procedure of grasping the plan, and method by eye fixation characteristics. The results were summarized as follows. 1) The new students can not understand housing plan easily. But, it was objectively confirmed that the more time the students spend on their specialized studies (degree of skill), the more accurately they understand them. 2) The glance tracks (eye fixation place ) of lower-grade students tend to concentrate on a specific part. In contrast, upper-grade students tend to watch them uniformly. 3) Lower-grade students understand the entire drawing by gathering partial information. And upper-grade students understand the detail after having caught the whole information. We observed such a tendency.