The impact of cognitive styles on design students' spatial knowledge from virtual environments

In parallel with the technological developments dominating usage of digital tools in science and education, caused the transform of knowledge in new ways. The reflection of these integration is seen in design discipline as its active role in this circle whether in practice or in the era of education, Benefit from the capabilities of new technologies in the education process for increasing design students' spatial knowledge, benefit from them digital tools also effect their carrier life in positive direction. By noticing the traditional education methods which are still using in many design school, the endeavor indicates that determine the appropriate learning method by considering individuals different cognitive style. The cognitive styles mean classify individuals according the way of perceive information and process it. Through this way, as subjects of the study, students categorized in respect to their cognitive styles whether field dependence or field independence, and then the relation between their cognitive style and spatial knowledge acquisition from virtual environment was observed. While defining digital tools in design education, the need of differences related to cognitive styles should be considered, this is supported by the data from this study which are indicating the increase of students' spatial knowledge in different scale of virtual environments. © The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology

The interaction of human and yacht interior: The relation between the physical discomfort and psychological discomfort

With the increasing scales and volumes, today the yachts have complex interior systems which the human and space interaction became more important issue than ever. Highly technological beings of yachts made them evaluated as floating machines. However the subject of human and space perception has a great number of research data which can be applied to the field of yacht design, the psychological needs of human which could be responded by the space were not taken into enough consideration while designing yacht interiors. In this paper the main load paths, the relation between psychological discomfort and physical discomfort in the scope of interior design features, will be explained. Different approaches from the architects who have applied the data of environmental psychology to the buildings to create unstressfull interiors for human will be given to support the concept development of future pleasure yachts. ©2011: The Royal Institution of Naval Architects

Acquired ptosis secondary to vernal conjunctivitis in young adults

Purpose: To establish a relation between prolonged severe vernal conjunctivitis and upper eyelid ptosis