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Design Effectiveness Survey Results Overview This site will allow you to sort through the results to examine how problematic activities were for participants when paired with specific designs for public buildings, public streets and residential environments. This site allows you to view the results in two ways. You can view the results by impairment condition; this allows you to see which activities the selected condition found the most problematic. Or you can view the results by activity; this will allow you to compare impairment conditions to see which condition found the selected activity the most problematic. Each of the Design Effectiveness Surveys contained both universal and non-universal designs. Three non-universal designs were randomly inserted into each survey with the expectation that they not improve typical activity performance. Participants were not told that there were universal and non-universal designs; they were just told to rate each design individually. As the results confirm below, participants were able to differentiate between universal and non-universal designs - finding the universal designs less problematic in virtually all instances. Examine Results by Condition Before participating in the surveys, participants reported how often physical, sensory and cognitive conditions affected their ability to perform routine activities. These conditions could be due to a permanent impairment, temporary injury, or a commonly occurring situation. Examining the results by condition will allow you to determine the influence of designs on each condition's activity performance in public buildings, on public streets and in residential environments.
Examine Results by Activity To examine the surveys' results by activity first select the environment, second select the activity within that environment. After selecting these options a chart will open in a new window displaying the results. This will allow you to compare each design's influence across conditions.
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