The term Genfukei can be useful when trying to understand personal identities, the identity of a regional community, and even the development of a region. The current research is an attempt to conceptualize and define the structure of "Genfukei" in order to explain how it forms and what is common among individuals of a particular group. Field interviews were conducted on Jeju Island, South Korea. Four groups of 4 to 6 adults participated. Results of the analyses of each group narrative revealed 4 types of narrative participation: 1) new topic introduction type, 2) elaborate explanation type, 3) receptive reaction type, and 4) acceptive questioning type. The common Genfukei of the local region was identified through a feeling of shard in the new topic introduction-elaborate explanation and narratives described by Jeju citizens. This is an occasion for talking together, where place identity with a sense of it's created and shared, thus becoming a psychological function of talking together about Genfukei. It is suggested that this method of investigation and analysis is useful when attempting to underatand how a community is formed.

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This study aimed to classify existing counseling-rooms as behavior-settings by examining furniture compositions in the counseling-rooms. 73 counseling-rooms and 24 other spaces attached with them were selected from: (1) private business counseling-rooms, (2) counseling-rooms in collages, and (3) counseling-rooms in training institutes for graduate students. One of the authors visited them and examined the kinds of furniture in them. The correspondence analysis on the date of the furniture in counseling-rooms revealed two dimensions: the number of persons in a room and the frequency of works conducted in a room, and the dimensions divided the usages of the counseling-rooms into three types: (1) work, (2) therapy and psychological assessment, and (3) recreations and group activities. The correspondence analysis on the date of mm the furniture in the attached spaces also revealed two dimensions; the frequency of works conducted in a space, and the degree of recreation and domestication, and those divided the usages of attached spaces into three types: (1) work, (2) recreation and relaxation, and (3) housework and relaxation. These findings suggested that the characteristics and usages of the counseling-rooms as behavior-settings were different from those of the attached spaces. Finally, interviews with the faculty of the counseling-rooms implied that the actual activities conducted in the counseling-rooms were congruent with the usages inferred from the correspondence analysis to some extent.

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This is an experimental study to clarify the characteristics of wayfinding as to cognitive distance, spatial image, and relationships between onground and underground pedestrian spaces along 15 onground and 15 underground courses, focusing upon Shinjuku Station as the cardinal point. The results are summarized as follows. 1) Persons have their own standard of estimating distance. It is more difficult to cognize the distance underground than onground. Moreover, it becomes easier to cognize distance as one goes toward the cardinal point of a town than outward from the point. This tendency differs by what valence the cardinal point has to the various persons. 2) Inward or outward relation to the cardinal point is more important to spatial image than whether it is onground or underground. The grade of valence related to the cardinal point also influences the spatial image. That is to say, the spatial image is unitary when valence becomes strong, plural when weak. 3) Valence also greatly influences the ease of cognition to the ground and underground relationship between a cognitive distance and a spatial image. On the ground, environmental factors having a strong relation to valence are used for judgment for ease of cognition. In the underground, environmental factors having a strong relation to physical characteristics of spaces are used.

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The compatibility between spaces in front of concert halls and performed music is considered based on the experiments to judge if a combination of space and music is suitable. When space and music are similar in terms of animation, brightness and gorgeousness, the combination of the space and the music is felt to be suitable. On the other hand, when space and music are not similar in terms of modernity and inorganicness, the combination of the space and the music is felt to be suitable. The impression of music influences the evaluation of a combination of space and music more than the impression of space. The evaluation of suitability of space and music is universal regardless of subjects' characteristics. Space that is felt to be fit for music varies according to the music

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When people behave in an environment, they comprehend the environment and determine an appropriate action, after considering the meanings of the environment and constraints attached with it. The present study focused on one of such environmental comprehension process, environmental inference and a subsequent process, decision making in environments. The study used 27 photos of various restaurant facades as stimuli and 154 university students as subjects. The subjects were asked to infer 3 actual facts (price, customers' sex, size of customer groups) and 12 rather subjective characters of each restaurant and rate their comfort to enter the restaurant from its facade photo projected on the wide screen. Results showed that the subjects could infer 3 actual facts correctly to a certain extent. One structural equation model revealed the factors of 'fit to me' and 'quality of restaurant' positively influence decision making while 'luxury' negatively influences it. However, 'luxury' also positively influences 'quality of restaurant'. That is, 'luxury' directly influences decision making in a negative fashion and it indirectly, through a positive influence on 'quality of restaurant', influence decision making in a positive fashion. Finally, limitations of the study and directions of future studies were discussed.

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