User Perception of Convenience and Visual Quality of Classroom Lectures in Makassar City

Abstract

The classroom environment needs to be well organized to allow active interaction between students and lecturers. The purpose of this study was to determine the comfort and visual quality of lecture classrooms based on user perceptions with the factors that form visual quality and the principles of visibility, ease of achievement, the flexibility of space, beauty, and visual comfort of building users. Methods The research uses a qualitative descriptive method. Analysis by describing and identifying every aspect that exists. The research approach used is deductive. Data analysis was carried out using the interactive model method to present statistical correlation and Likert scale data. The data analysis steps start from the data reduction stage, data presentation, and drawing conclusions and verification. The results of the study concluded that the forming factors of visual quality such as not using artificial light because it had an impact on shadows and heat in the room, the use of projector media (LCD) in the teaching and learning process, the atmosphere/impression of the visual quality of natural light, and the area and arrangement of the space became the dominant factor in providing comfortable perceptions for room users than for the most dominant class physical environment factors that provide comfortable perceptions, namely the comfort factor in learning related to room temperature, light, sound, and class density as well as beauty and aesthetic factors in the classroom—related to the arrangement of furniture in the classroom