Office Decor Research Articles

Putting the 'Art' Into the 'Art of Medicine': The Under-Explored Role of Artifacts in Placebo Studies.

Research in social psychology demonstrates that physical environmental factors – or “artifacts” such as provider clothing and office décor – can influence health outcomes. However, the role of artifacts in augmenting or diminishing health outcomes is under-explored in the burgeoning discipline of placebo studies. In this paper, we argue that a careful consideration of artifacts may carry significant potential in informing how placebo effects can be maximized, and nocebo effects minimized in clinical settings. We discuss the potential mechanisms, including classical conditioning, response expectancy, and mindsets, by which artifacts might enhance or diminish these effects. Next, we propose testable hypotheses to investigate how placebo and nocebo effects might be elicited by artifacts in care settings, and conclude by providing innovative research designs to advance this novel research agendum.

Organ Procurement Organization Run Department of Motor Vehicle Registration and Drivers Licensing Offices Leads to Increased Organ Donor First Person Authorization Registrations.

More people who have personally consented to organ donation via first person authorization (FPA) registration before death become organ donors than those not personally consenting. The majority of registrations occur at state-specific department of motor vehicle (DMV) and licensing offices, where people register their vehicles and obtain driver's licenses. One organ procurement organization (OPO) ran 3 DMV offices and implemented an intervention: a donor-centric approach, including employee education, office decoration with donation materials, and customer experience improvements. Data about registry enrollment was collected before and during the 4-year OPO licensing office contract. A linear mixed model and interrupted time series analyses were performed to evaluate whether the intervention improved rates of registration. Preintervention registry enrollment rates per month were 10%-50%. Having the offices run by an OPO was associated with more enrollments independent of the increasing trend of enrollment (P < 0.001). Also, the DMV office with the lowest preimplementation registration rates had an immediate increase in enrollments after the intervention leading to higher registration rates (P < 0.001). A donor-centric OPO-managed DMV experience increases FPA registration, especially at offices with low initial registration rates. However, even at the office with the highest percentage of FPA registrations, rates were only 65% at intervention conclusion. The transplant community should consider other opportunities for FPA registration.

Investigation of Antenna-Integrated Transparent Socket Panel

This paper presents the first antenna-integrated socket that can be used in place of the commercial socket. The socket panel is made of K9 glass for the aesthetic purpose. It serves as the dielectric resonator (DR) loading for the integrated slot antenna fabricated in the ground plane. The socket (DR)- loaded slot antenna is directly fed by a coaxial cable at the slot center. Considering the practical scenarios, the antenna is investigated in three different cases, namely the socket panel, socket panel with plug, and socket panel with the plug and cable. For demonstration, the socket-loaded antenna is designed in 2.4-GHz WLAN band (2.40–2.48 GHz). The reflection coefficient, radiation pattern, antenna gain, and efficiency in each case are measured. Measured results show that the impedance bandwidth can cover the entire frequency band. The antenna can be potentially used as a camouflaged antenna or an attractive home or office decoration.

I1.3: Invited Paper: Immersive Applications based on Depth‐Imaging and 3D‐Sensing Technology

The recent developments in depth‐imaging and 3D computer vision techniques allow efficient and real‐time acquisition, reconstruction, and understanding of the 3D environment, which enable an array of life‐like and immersive applications. We show here an excerpt of some of the key technologies spanning sensors, algorithms, and system integration based on depth imaging and 3D sensing technology. The small form factor, the low power and the real‐time depth image capture are the key enablers. We talk here about emerging trends in this burgeoning field and new enabled applications that include immersive and interactive gaming, virtual home and office decoration, virtual cloth fitting, video conferencing with custom background and synthetic environment, education and training, and numerous other new entertainment and productivity usages with natural and intuitive interactions.

Features of use of Ukrainian ornament in office decoration

The article considers the modern trends and design features of office in the Ukrainian national style. The most common types of Ukrainian office. Examples of styling individual items in the office, and finish ornament and рetrykivka painting that evolved over many centuries and have become an integral part of the Ukrainian style.

Multicultural art in the therapy office: Community and student perceptions of the therapist.

Multicultural sensitivity is important in clinical practice, yet we know little about how the physical environment projects this quality. Objects displayed in the therapy office are one possible source of multicultural expression. This study examined the display of art objects in a therapy office on judgments of the therapist’s characteristics, including openness to multiculturalism. In a 2 (cultural emphasis of art objects) 2 (number of art objects displayed) 2 (student vs. community sample) between-subjects design, 154 undergraduate participants from a small liberal arts college in the Northeast and 57 adults, most of whom were Latino residents of the surrounding community, rated a therapist based on 1 of 4 photos of a room arranged as a therapist’s office. Participants’ ratings of 43 therapist characteristics were grouped through factor analysis into 4 factors: Competence, Multiculturalism, Welcomeness, and Direct Style. In general the students gave more favorable ratings than did the community sample. The community sample was more favorable toward the therapist when more of the objects on display could be characterized as multicultural. Practice recommendations for psychologists regarding office decor and art are discussed.

The relative merits of lean, enriched, and empowered offices: An experimental examination of the impact of workspace management strategies on well-being and productivity.

Principles of lean management encourage managers to exert tight control over office space and the people within it. Alternative, design-led approaches promote the value of offices that are enriched, particularly by plants and art. On the basis of a social identity perspective, we argue that both of these approaches may compromise organizational outcomes by disempowering workers and failing to give them input into the design of their office space. This hypothesis is tested in two experiments (ns = 112, 47). The first was conducted in an interior office in a psychology department, the second in a commercial city office. In 4 independent conditions we examine the impact of space management strategies in which the office is either (a) lean, (b) decorated by the experimenter (with plants and art), (c) self-decorated, or (d) self-decorated and then redecorated by the experimenter. We examine the impact of these conditions on organizational identification, well-being, and various forms of productivity (attention to detail, information processing, information management, and organizational citizenship). In both experiments, superior outcomes are observed when offices are decorated rather than lean. However, further improvements in well-being and productivity are observed when workers have input into office decoration. Moreover, these effects are attenuated if this input is overridden. Implications for theory and practice are discussed. In particular, findings point to the need to question assumptions about the merits of lean office space management that have been dominant throughout the last century.

It's More Than a Desk: Working Smarter through Leveraged Office Design

Current trends in telecommuting and non-territorial office design have changed what it means to work in an on-site office and, subsequently, have increased the number of functions office design is expected to serve. At the same time, innovations in technology and design provide today's managers more choices than ever when outfitting their offices. This article offers a framework of leveraged office design that illustrates how managers can make design choices that both capitalize on the newest innovations in office design and serve the emerging needs of corporate workers. The framework specifically explores three functions of workplace design: instrumental functions, such as improving decision making and inter-group collaboration; symbolic functions, such as affirming individual distinctiveness and group status; and aesthetic functions, such as allowing for desired sensory experiences and promoting a sense of place attachment. This framework illustrates how organizations can capitalize on all three functions through their choices in office decor and layout.

Interpreting workplace identities: the role of office décor

AbstractUsing qualitative methods, I examine how employees in corporate office environments interpreted a variety of relatively permanent office décor (e.g., furniture, photos, personal mementos) as indicators of their colleagues' workplace identities (i.e., central and enduring categorizations regarding employees' status and distinctiveness in the workplace). Similar to the encoding of behavioral cues of identity, findings suggest that interpretation of physical identity markers begins with either (1) a top‐down process of social categorization, in which specific rules are applied to encoding a few, focal, and visually salient pieces of office decor as evidence of management prototypes, or (2) a bottom‐up process of social categorization, in which a variety of physical artifacts are examined and compared to specific managerial exemplars to develop a complex representation of workplace identity. Findings also suggest that some of the unique attributes of physical identity markers (i.e., their potential to be viewed independently from their displayer, and their relative permanence) may be associated with the focus of each profiling process (i.e., on interpreting status vs. distinctiveness, and consistency vs. change). Copyright © 2004 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd.

Office Politics in a State Legislature

Space use in the restored California Capitol is explored through an analysis of newspaper reports and interviews with occupants regarding methods of space assignment, territoriality, personalization, the effects of centrality and propinquity, and the symbolism of office decor. Incidents of competition for space tended to be infrequent and highly ritualized. The relative lack of conflict is due to a generally adequate space situation in a newly renovated and attractive building, a traditional system of space allocation accepted as legitimate, considerable autonomy for the occupants to control and personalize assigned spaces, and the linkage of office quality to rank within a system allowing upward mobility.

Therapeugenic factors in psychotherapy: Effects of office decor and subject-therapist sex pairing on the perception of credibility.

Therapeugenic factors in psychotherapy: Effects of office decor and subject-therapist sex pairing on the perception of credibility.

A new small crossbar telephone system for private branch exchanges

A new small crossbar telephone system called the 756A private branch exchange (PBX) was recently developed for business establishments requiring no more than 60 lines to PBX telephone stations and ten trunks to a telephone central office. Distinguishing features of this new PBX are the small size and attractive appearance of the cabinets for the PBX attendants and the switching equipment. These cabinets have colors and finishes that blend with modern office decor so they can be located satisfactorily adjacent to office furniture.