Abstract
Post-Occupancy Evaluation is recognized and valued as a process that can improve, and help explain, the performance of the built environment. During the past twenty-five years it has emerged as a distinct area of research, scholarly activity, and application, and work in the field has rapidly expanded — it now encompasses significant activity beyond that found in the standard environment-behavior literature. This chapter examines the evolution of, and contemporary activities in, Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE), to distinguish patterns in the use and boundaries of POE. Specific attributes of POE activities that are examined include: (1) the intentions of the POE; (2) the type, size and complexity of the buildings investigated; (3) the types of variables that were included in the evaluations; and (4) the relationships among the variables studied.
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Rabinowitz, H.Z. (1989). The Uses and Boundaries of Post-Occupancy Evaluation: an Overview. In: Preiser, W.F.E. (eds) Building Evaluation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3722-3_2
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