Interactive Built Environment in Shaping Users Orientation And Navigation in Space

Interactive properties allow the space to participate in social relationship, becoming the driving force of people's communication with the space. Interactive environment becomes a vehicle behind social interaction between the users in real time, creating unique common experience and navigating them through space. A full scale prototype is used to examine fundamental and applied questions of sensorial response integration into spatial communication between people and interactive built environment as a proof of concept. The paper examines the effect of interactive space stimuli and the visitors' responsiveness to signals from the space in order to shape their behaviour within the space and find the most effective ways of communication between visitors and interactive environment. Performed tests and observations allowed to assess the new qualities of interactive environment in shaping visitors experience and behaviour within the space on both personal and social levels, linking the conclusions to cybernetic background of the paper.