A Room With a ”Fake” View: Installing Digital Windows in Windowless Offices

Wohn, Donghee Yvette; Kum-Biocca, Hyejin Hannah; Sharma, Astha; Khandakar, Anisah

doi:10.1145/3391614.3399397

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“…These themes agree with the finding by scholars that Covid-19, air quality, visual reality, and digital windows are essential concerns in the 2020s (Ibukun & Adebayo, 2021;Mahyuddin et al, 2022;Mouratidis & Hassan, 2020;Wohn, Kum-Biocca, Sharma, & Khandakar, 2020;Yap et al, 2021). Since Trisos et al (2022) view emerging trends as themes that seek to address specific research gaps by leveraging new approaches to data and technology (p. 1330), young scholars in WOR should identify and explore one or more emerging themes for impactful contributions to the subject area.…”

Section: Main Themes In Windowless Office Researchsupporting

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“…A systematic analysis is necessary to identify problems and gaps for tangible and impactful research into the subject area, especially by young scholars. (Bringslimark et al, 2011;Canazei et al, 2017;Ko et al, 2020;Weng et al, 2020;Wohn et al, Consequently, publications in the five themes from the cocitation analysis, namely architecture, planning, psychology, health, and sciences, were analyzed and grouped into three study background aspects of design and spatial perception, health and well-being, and science and engineering. Each document's research variables, instruments and tools were scrutinized to reveal current research directions and gaps.…”

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Conditions for Implementing Windowless Offices in High-Density Urban Centers of Malaysia: A Bibliometric and Systematic Review

Aule,

Abdul Majid,

Peter

et al. 2023

Int J. of BES

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The dearth of land in high-density urban centres necessitates constructing structures with deep interiors, with little or no connection to the external environment. Additionally, the negative relationships between high-rise structures in the city centres in recent times are increasingly making contact with the outdoor environments undesirable. Whether in the built environment, decision sciences, healthcare, or technological disciplines, there is a need to understand the factors necessary for windowless office implementation, its prominent researchers, and geographical contexts, among other conditions for practical application. These background variables could assist in arriving at emerging themes, problems and gaps for concrete windowless office development in Malaysia. In this systematic review, the bibliographic information of title, abstract and keywords was mined from 255 documents on the Scopus database to generate scientometric maps and links showing relationships on co-authorship, co-citation, co-occurrences, and bibliometric coupling. The top trending variables in windowless office research are COVID-19, energy efficiency, indoor air quality, heart rate variability, performance assessment, visual reality, and workplace environment. Like other advanced economies in Asia, Malaysia is seen to attain a satisfactory level of development to implement the windowless office design module, with stable electricity power, technological advancement, and psychological stability of the people. The emerging variables in this review will give novel directions in exploring the developmental, psychological and health conditions for effective windowless office implementation in the country and similar economies in Asia, Africa and South America, where metropolises are fast becoming compacted due to ever-growing city centres

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Section: Main Themes In Windowless Office Researchsupporting

confidence: 74%

Section: Windowless Office Research Variables and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Conditions for Implementing Windowless Offices in High-Density Urban Centers of Malaysia: A Bibliometric and Systematic Review

Aule,

Abdul Majid,

Peter

et al. 2023

Int J. of BES

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“…The value of virtual nature is clearly far greater now given that large numbers of people have been confined to urban environments or cannot leave their homes because they are shielding. Some of this VR research has involved incorporating elements of virtual nature into the office environment, for example, placing “virtual windows” or large television screen displays of nature in workplaces, and playing sounds of running water to mask noise distraction (Wohn et al , 2020; Kahn et al , 2008; Abdalrahman and Galbrun, 2020). One study found that an “immersive break room”, containing LED screens displaying park scenery, audio of birds chirping and a composition of pleasant outdoor scents, could induce greater improvements in mood and reduced feelings of fatigue than a standard break room (Sona et al , 2019).…”

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Editorial: Taking a break in the “new normal”: virtual reality relaxation for a stressed workforce

Riches

Smith

2022

MHRJ

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“…Within this context, the argument for ambient technologies to support the remote home workers falls into place. Ambient systems have been previously used to mitigate "always-on" environments (Stawarz et al, 2013;Toch et al, 2020), and to support mental and physical wellbeing in various domestic and health applications (Weiser and Brown, 1995;Ludden and Meekhof, 2016;Bittner et al, 2019;Wohn et al, 2020).…”

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Understanding the Experiences of Remote Workers: Opportunities for Ambient Workspaces at Home

Margariti

Ali

Grave

et al. 2021

Front. Comput. Sci.

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As the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many to work remotely from home, collaborating solely through digital technologies, a growing population of remote home workers are faced with profound wellbeing challenges. Passive sensing devices and ambient feedback have great potential to support the wellbeing of the remote workers, but there is a lack of background and understanding of the domestic workplace in terms of physical and affective dimensions and challenges to wellbeing. There are profound research gaps on wellbeing in the domestic workplace, with the current push for remote home and hybrid working making this topic timely. To address these gaps and shape a starting point for an “ambient workspaces” agenda, we conducted an exploratory study to map physical and affective aspects of working from home. The study involved both qualitative and quantitative measures of occupant experience, including sensor wristbands, and a custom web application for self-reporting mood and aspects of the environment. It included 13 participants for a period of 4 weeks, during a period of exclusive home working. Based on quantitative and qualitative analysis, our study addresses wellbeing challenges of the domestic workplace, establishes correlations between mood and physical aspects, and discusses the impact of feedback mechanisms in the domestic workplace on the behavior of remote workers. Insights from these observations are then used to inform a future design agenda for ambient technologies that supports the wellbeing of remote workers; addressing the design opportunities for ambient interventions in domestic workspaces. This work offers three contributions: 1) qualitatively and quantitatively informed understandings of the experiences of home-workers; 2) a future design agenda for “ambient home workspaces”; and 3) we propose three design concepts for ambient feedback and human–AI interactions in the built environment, to illustrate the utility of the design agenda.

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A Room With a ”Fake” View: Installing Digital Windows in Windowless Offices

Cited by 9 publications

References 12 publications

Conditions for Implementing Windowless Offices in High-Density Urban Centers of Malaysia: A Bibliometric and Systematic Review

Conditions for Implementing Windowless Offices in High-Density Urban Centers of Malaysia: A Bibliometric and Systematic Review

Editorial: Taking a break in the “new normal”: virtual reality relaxation for a stressed workforce

Understanding the Experiences of Remote Workers: Opportunities for Ambient Workspaces at Home

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