The installation of appropriate lobby chairs in the hospital's waiting room is requested on the aged society. Then, the purpose of this research is to obtain the configuration and dimensions of an appropriate lobby chair for both the young and the aged. In this case, both the seating and the standing action to the chair were considered at the same time. The standing actions with an armrest and without one were investigated_ Experiments were conducted with an experiment chair made in the original. The subjects were the five persons of the young and the aged, respectively. Experimental conditions were 120 kinds of conditions by the combination of the seat angle, inclined angle of back, and height of seat. Appropriate conditions common to the young and the aged were found at seating. These were approximately conespondingto the proposal of Kohara and Hanaoka. The evaluation was not corresponding to the aged and the young at the standing action without armrest. The aged evaluated the chair for the standing action high when the height of the seat was low and the young evaluated it better where the height of the seat is high. At the seating on the chair and at the standing action with armrest the condition with a high evaluation common to the young and the aged was as follows: 315mm seat level (369mm height of seat) .6 deg seat angle and l8deg inclined angle of back (102 deg angle between the seat and the back)

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Recently, the inconsistent life styles of young adults in their 20's or 30's may cause their circadian rhythms to become less regular. This study surveys the health status of 29 female students during two weeks in the winter of 2005 and in the summer of 2003 employing physiological measurements, and questionnaires surveying their daily physical activity, (e.g., metabolic rate). Subjects can be classified into two groups, one is regular group and the other is inegular group, and we analyze the intenelation between them. The former eats dinner around 20 o'clock at home, the latter does late dinner around 22 o'clock at home or other place. We gauged subjects' daily life styles based on the answers from the questionnaires. Analysis of findings provided the main results as follows: 1) Significant differences were observed in respect to the times going to bedtime(p<0.01), getting uplime(p <0.01) and time in bed (p<0.05) .2) High relationship between health consciousness and scores resulting from self-diagnoses of health was shown for irregular group. 3)It is difficult to observe morning suige phenomena in the physiological measurements from the ordinary lifestyles surveyed here.

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The purpose of this paper is to clarify how the existing historic buildings has been preserved and reused in Scotland. The research is especially focused on Glasgow born architect, William Leiper and his woiks in Helensburgh. Helensburgh, a port town situated in the west part of Scotland, is known as the 19th centuty resort place and also building estate for bourgeois who has established their wealth in the development of Industrial Revolution. Lieper designed private houses for these people. Among these houses, Caimdhu which was designed for John Ure who was a load provost of Glasgow between 1880 and 1883 is now used as a nursing home for elderly people. The house used to use as a hotel for several years before it transformed as a nursing home. In this paper, we have revealed how the building designed as a private house has beenpreserved and reused within over one hundred yeam

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This study was designed to record some psychological and physiological responses to evaluate the effects of such responses by a radiant cooling system of ceiling in a hospital on the quality of sleep and. Two male subjects and two female subjects were used. They were exposed from 26℃ to 28℃ and 30℃ in the radiant cooling system of the ceiling. Heart rate and body temperature were continuously recorded during the experimental period of 8 hours. Quality of sleep was subjectively evaluated with the OSA sleeping questionnaire soon after the subjects woke up. As a result, when paying attention to autonomic nervous system, air temperature controlled at 26℃ was found to be better than 28℃ and 30℃. On the other hand, when paying attention to feeling of sleep, air temperature controlled at 28℃ was found to be better than 26℃ and 30℃.

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Adaptation research committee has been established to examine states of adaptation of humans to the climate since 2002, because that climatic adaptation plays an important role in the relation between energy conservation and thermal comfort in buildings. This is an activity report of the committee. .A purpose setting the committee is to clarif' the space and time distribution of adaptation to the climate in Japan. The characteristics of adaptation were obtained by bringing a micro data recorder of temperature and humidity surrounding the person. The measurements were operated by several persons at six areas such as Sapporo, Tsukuba, Osaka, Fukuoka, Kumamoto, and Okinawa, during a week every two months from June 2005.

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