An analysis of mockup cost effectiveness to verify the accuracy of stimuli approach: a case study of interior design for VIP in-patient rooms (single)

Abstract

Mockup is a scale or full-sized model that used for demonstrating and evaluating the functionality of a design. It is only in-plemented in a large project that having similar room patterns to reduce the risk of poor design. This research is to identify the corelationship between the number of rooms (or the project size) and the mockup investment cost to find the decision-making point. The research methodology is to build the perspective picture of VIP in-patient rooms as the Stimuli approach and build the same realistic full-sized rooms as the mockup then applying the systematic research implication to learn and synthesize the results to investigate the functionalities, environmental perceptions and cost-benefits ratio in order to evaluate the corelationship between the cost effectiveness and the estimated optimum number of rooms. In addition, data collection from the same hospital staffs, patients, and other service receivers will be conducted by questionnaire survey and close observation. The data will be complied vis-à-vis the results from mockup and stimuli methods to establish the decision-making baseline.