In this study, the authors collected the data of 229 classrooms in 15 municipal elementary schools in a city, and sorted them into 5 categories according to the degree of openness of the classrooms in the design of borders between classroom and hallway. First, the authors examined the influence of 5 major factors on the degree of concentration of the children during classwork. As a result, the following were found: (1) the degree of concentration of the children is influenced by the classroom plan type and the number and ratio of children in the class who require special supports, and is neither affected by teaching experience of the teacher nor the total number of the children in the class. (2) The general trend of concentration of children in full‐open classrooms does not differ significantly from that in conventional classrooms. However, in the classrooms equipped with movable partition panels for partially separating the classroom from the hallway, it is significantly lower than in the classrooms of other types. The factors of distraction in physical environments were then further analyzed and discussed.

In China, joint activities for the elderly and children in integrated welfare facilities lack systematic decision procedures. By learning from the “leisure constraint” theory, the study puts forward six influencing indicators of motivation and constraint in the aspects of preliminary coordination, activity space and effect. By using semi-structured interviews and questionnaire surveys analyzed by deviation value computation, the study analyzes the evaluation value of influencing factors in the decision procedure of potential activity cases, where administrators and nurses act as two decision makers. Further, it discusses the decision-making mechanism based on the “motivation–constraint” interaction model. Firstly, it analyzes the dominant forces in the decision procedure, which are “motivation oriented”, “negotiation oriented” and “constraint oriented”. Secondly, it reveals that administrators and nurses as two decision makers tend to give positive motivation evaluations and deliberative constraints evaluations, respectively. Additionally, it analyzes the decision procedures of activities with distinct feasibility differentiation. Thirdly, it positions the levels of occurrence potential as “should occur”, “occurred but should be improved”, “potentially could occur” and “hard to occur”. Eventually, it analyzes the requirements and potential for joint activities under different service modules, which provides a theoretical foundation for the systematic planning and development of the joint activities.

In this study, we focus on the environment at the museum after the appreciation of art. We conducted an experiment, in which participants were instructed to watch short films and then perform one out of three activities (Activity ‐ A: Sitting, B: Walking, C: Talking quietly with the experimenter). According to the latent memory test following each activity, the participants recalled the content in elaborate detail after either sitting calmly (A) or walking (B) rather than after talking (C). This proved that even though the content is the same, the depth of the impression varies according to the activity performed after the appreciation.

Research on streetscape perception have not been conducted with the consideration of different traveling modes, for describing the sequential experience requires much recording labor and less reproducibility. A theoretical model is proposed in this paper, developing the Isovist analysis model with 3 parameters; offset distance from facade, traveling velocity, and effective viewing angle, which not only quantifies the amount of visual stimulation per time but also visualizes the rhythm of streetscapes reflecting their context and provides suggestions to urban design.