擁有一個舒適理想的家居空間，是現代人生活中強烈渴求的目標，而家居設計產業也常以提供給使用者最大的舒適性為主要訴求。然而，至今人們對「舒適」這一看似簡單易懂、實則複雜的概念仍難以清晰描述，故本研究試圖從使用者生活脈絡的角度，將舒適視為一種身體感，去探究使用者在個人居住空間中所體驗到的舒適為何，是由哪些要素組成和要素之間是呈現怎樣的階層架構關係，以及如何能營造出可有效提升使用者舒適感的家居環境。
本研究採用探索型的質性研究取徑，選定大學生居住校外租賃套房的舒適經驗為研究樣本，實施兩階段的訪談調查，依序進行照片引談法與深度訪談法，蒐集使用者認為的家居舒適感描述資料，以質性資料譯碼方式分析，並發展出一套關於家居舒適感的概念架構。
研究結果顯示家居舒適感可分成四個構面的舒適感需求層級，分別是「生理舒適(physical comfort)、身心舒適(psychophysical comfort)、情感舒適(affectional comfort)和精神舒適(psychospiritual comfort) 」，而使用者描述家居舒適感受的十七種代表性詞彙有「安全感、自在感、自由感、放鬆感、居家感、歸屬感、愉悅感、平靜感、精神感、便利感、安靜感、乾淨感、寬闊感、柔軟感、溫暖感、涼爽感和香氛感」，則分別屬於不同層次的家居舒適感需求，從訪談文本引言中亦可發現與之相對應的具體舒適元素與情境脈絡。
因此，由本研究所提出的家居舒適感概念原型可得知，家居舒適有其恆常性與易變性，使用者對個人居住空間之舒適需求與感受除了差異性也有共同偏好。此架構將可供未來發展舒適感議題的後續研究之論述基礎，或是設計師欲建構家居舒適設計之參考依據。

Having an ideal and comfortable living space is a goal that modern people would strongly eager for, and to provide comfortability for their users has been the main purpose of household design industries want to achieve. However, even nowadays we still could not describe clearly about the concept of “comfort” that seems easy to understand. Therefore, this study, based on the context of users’ daily lives and seeing comfort as a corporeality, tried to explore the experience of users’ comfortabilities of their individual living space and to figure out what are the factors in it? How are they structured or related? And, how do they work to build up an environment that let users feel more comfortable.
In this study we adopted the approach of qualitative exploratory research inquiring college students’ comfortable experience in living in a rental suite alone. Two stages of interview were conducted, first the Photo Elicitation Interview then the Depth Interview, to collect users’ descriptions about the concept of home comfort followed by Grounded Theory to analyze and decode the data. Finally, a framework about the concept of home comfort was constructed.
The research showed that home comfort could be separated into four aspects, they are “physical comfort”, “psychophysical comfort”, “affectional comfort”, and “psychospiritual comfort”. Seventeen words were found in describing the comfortable feelings, including the senses of security, ease, freedom, relax, homelike-feeling, belongingness, pleasantness, calmness, spiritedness, convenience, quiet, cleanness, broadness, softness, warmth, coolness, and fragrance. All these words could belong to different levels of home comfort needs, and found the related concrete objects and living context from the users’ statements.
Therefore, from the concept of home comfort structure drawn from this research, it can be inferred that “home comfort” is both constancy and variability. Users share similar preference of needs and feelings to the individual living space other than differences. And hopefully, these concepts will form the foundation for comfortability research in the future, and serve as guidelines for designers who involve comfort household design.

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