| Keywords |
Residential interior space ; Visual privacy ; Single-person household ; Coping behavior for visual privacy ; University student |
| Abstract |
The purpose of this study is to examine university students' perceptions of and coping behavior regarding visual privacy with a questionnaire, a field survey and interviews for gather data. The results are as follows. First, university students care more about visual and auditory privacy than other types of privacy in their daily lives and in their residential space. Second, university students have a perception about the meaning of visual privacy according to the relationship between the subject that sees and the object that is seen because visual privacy is related to "seeing". Third, female students have more experience with the violation of their visual privacy and feel a higher possibility of their visual privacy being violated than male students. Finally, university students living in single-person households respond with four types of behavior for dealing with visual privacy: ignoring outside gazes; checking to see if anyone can see in, blocking a view from outside, or avoiding a place or spot where they can be seen. The student's behavior differs according to their perceptions of and coping strategies for visual privacy and their actions to prevent visual privacy violations. |