Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This study aimed to investigate the influence of an interactive design installation on patients’ anxiety in waiting rooms. Waiting rooms are often stressful environments, which can lead to serious phobias. Therefore, it is essential to make these spaces more pleasant. It is also important to help patients reduce their anxiety and stress levels while in these waiting rooms. Interactive design installations are a behavioral distraction technique used to influence patients’ thinking and refocus their attention away from anxiety. This experimental study was conducted using speculative design theory to determine how interactive installations can help reduce anxiety among patients in waiting rooms. Could it be a powerful tool that could be used in the future to improve healthcare quality, potentially replacing direct medical treatments, such as medications for anxiety, with behavioral techniques? Keywords: interactive design installation, patient anxiety, waiting rooms, Behavioral distraction techniques, future healthcare innovations
Author: Safiya Al Farsi
Institution: University of Technology and Applied Sciences-Nizwa
Language: English
Subfield: Human-Computer Interaction
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4416573674
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