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A study on the rationality of office Feng Shui based on ergonomics

  • Xinke Shen
  • , Wei He
  • , Bo Chen
  • , Li Ding*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Beihang University

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Abstract

Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese wisdom of harmonizing human beings with their surrounding environment. It is now universally applied to interior layout design for working area. But the rationality of office Feng Shui still remains doubtful with limited research on it. In this study, experimental methods in ergonomics were adopted to testify the model of office Feng Shui design developed by the Form School theory of Feng Shui. In the experiment, subjects did simulated office tasks in three different office Feng Shui designs (“best”, “middle” and “worst”) and indoor environmental parameters, subjects’ physiological index, working efficiency, emotional states and subjective evaluation were obtained by measurement or questionnaire. The results of different designs were compared afterwards. The conclusion came that ideal office Feng Shui design can bring positive influence on office users’ subjective feelings, but it does not make significant difference concerning indoor environment, uses’ physiological index or efficiency.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Affective and Pleasurable Design - Proceedings of the AHFE International Conference on Affective and Pleasurable Design, 2016
EditorsCliff Sungsoo Shin, WonJoon Chung
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages295-304
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783319416601
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
EventInternational Conference on Affective and Pleasurable Design, 2016 - Walt Disney World, United States
Duration: 27 Jul 201631 Jul 2016

Publication series

NameAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume483
ISSN (Print)2194-5357

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Affective and Pleasurable Design, 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWalt Disney World
Period27/07/1631/07/16

Keywords

  • Ergonomics
  • Feng Shui
  • Office
  • Subjective evaluation

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