Personal Workspace Research Articles

Communication behavior and space utilization of office workers in a research facility's activity‐based workplace

AbstractThis study explores the pre‐ and post‐renovation differences in communication behaviors of office workers at a construction company's research facility that had carried out renovations to promote open innovation through internal and external interactions. We conducted an analysis by combining both objective survey of conversation time, conversation partners, and stay location information using sensing terminals and subjective evaluations by office workers using a questionnaire survey. As the work style transitioned from fixed seats pre‐renovation to activity‐based working post‐renovation, the attendance rate analysis around each worker's personal workspace throughout the measurement period decreased from 74% to 60%, and the tendency to use various places in the office increased. Additionally, the number of conversation partners increased by 1.9 times on average and inter‐department conversation rate increased from 46% to 53% when activity‐based working was performed post‐renovation. However, while the introduction of activity‐based working significantly increased the level of communication satisfaction among workers in other departments, it tended to decrease the level of communication satisfaction within a department. This study maintains that organizational and operational efforts must sustain and promote intra‐departmental communication when activity‐based working is introduced and confirms that the introduction of activity‐based working was effective in promoting interaction between office workers.

Factors affecting medical students’ satisfaction with online learning: a regression analysis of a survey

BackgroundMedical education requires the implementation of different teaching methods and strategies for future doctors to achieve broad learning objectives. This wide range of methods and strategies includes the use of Information Technologies. For a long time, there was a call for a change in medical education for blending new teaching approaches to lessen medical students’ class time. The COVID-19 pandemic then sped up the transition to the new way of medical education and classroom lectures were quickly moved to a virtual environment. We expect that these changes will continue, and online learning will be one of the main teaching strategies in medical education. Therefore, educational experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic will improve our understanding of online learning and will help to develop blended medical school curricula in the future. For this reason, we aimed to determine students’ overall satisfaction with their online learning experience and to define the main factors affecting students’ satisfaction with their online learning program at Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty.MethodsA cross-sectional survey study was conducted to determine medical students’ overall satisfaction with online learning methods and to identify factors associated with positive and negative satisfaction levels. A questionnaire, consisting of 24 questions to collect demographic characteristics, factors associated with online education experience and overall satisfaction levels was developed and distributed to 1600 medical students. Multivariable linear regression analysis was used to determine the factors associated with positive and negative satisfaction levels.ResultsRegression analysis showed that being familiar with online teaching techniques (β = 0.19, 95% CI [0.07, 0.30], faculty members’ higher online teaching skill levels (β = 0.42, 95% CI [0.32, 0.51], interactive online teaching approaches (β = 0.54, 95% CI [0.41, 0.67], having a personal workspace (β = 0.43, 95% CI [0.19, 0.67], and a self-reported longer attention span (β = 0.75, 95% CI [0.57, 0.92] were associated with higher overall satisfaction with online learning. The occurrence of technical problems (β = -0.19, 95% CI [-0.26, -0.12] was associated with lower overall satisfaction.ConclusionsHigher online teaching skills of faculty members, use of interactive approaches, students’ familiarity with online teaching techniques, provision of a personal workspace, and self-reported longer attention spans positively contributed to higher levels of student satisfaction with online learning. Considering the increasing significance of online educational methods, our study identified key components that affect students’ level of satisfaction. This information might contribute to the development of online educational programs in the future.

Workspace Guardian: Investigating Awareness of Personal Workspace Between Co-Located Augmented Reality Users.

As augmented reality (AR) systems proliferate and the technology gets smaller and less intrusive, we imagine a future where many AR users will interact in the same physical locations (e.g., in shared work places and public spaces). While previous research has explored AR collaboration in these spaces, our focus is on co-located but independent work. In this paper, we explore co-located AR user behavior and investigate techniques for promoting awareness of personal workspace boundaries. Specifically, we compare three techniques: showing all virtual content, visualizing bounding box outlines of content, and a self-defined workspace boundary. The findings suggest that a self-defined boundary led to significantly more personal workspace encroachments.

An E-Collaboration Application for Final-Year Project Management

The advent of digital technologies has contributed to collaboration in many areas of life, including academia. This paper examines student final year projects (FYPs) and proposes a collaborative system that provides tools in response to various needs such as communication, coordination, production, and resource sharing. The application is designed for multiple users: students, advisors, and administrative staff. It provides a personal workspace for each user. The novelty of the proposed system is that it covers all the collaborative aspects mentioned throughout the FYP process, including proposal processing, project assignment, project completion, and evaluation. The new system is based on the proposed layered collaborative architecture. The results indicate good scores in improving collaborative aspects, improved process efficiency, and that users are positively inclined to use the system as their FYP management system.

Curso de escritura académica. El tiempo, el espacio y la focalización

In this first text of a series of four, we address several preliminary aspects that should be considered before embarking on any academic writing process. Specifically, we will discuss three aspects. Firstly, we will explore the optimal time of day for writing and how to plan our writing sessions. Secondly, we will highlight the importance of having a properly configured personal workspace. Thirdly, we emphasize the significance of the concept of "Deep Work," recommending techniques for focus related to setting up our virtual desktop, managing ambient sounds, and incorporating meditation.

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The purpose of this study is to know about the space design’s limitations of the shared office and the direction of the shared office space design according to the changing types of work is examined. Despite the economic downturn caused by the corona virus, the use of shared offices in Korea is increasing. As companies choose to work from home, the proportion of freelancers, including digital nomads, is increasing. In addition, according to the concept of work shifting from the center of the metropolis to the center of the region, it seems that more research on spaces with various meanings is needed. For the study, the current status and cases of shared offices were explored, and the space design was examined using field visits. First, the change in the form of work that is the background of the study was investigated. The current status of shared office was investigated through previous researched cases. Based on this, we analyzed the space design by examining the actual use of personal work space rather than public work space. A standard table for spatial design classification was created as a standard for case site visits. A total of four domestic shared office tour sites were selected and visited and used for a total of 7 days.
 They visited the office, Fast Five, WeWork, and Musinsa studios located in Seoul to summarize each feature, space design, and service. In addition, based on this, a diagram was created based on the previously prepared reference table so that the difference could be clearly identified.
 Through a comprehensive analysis, the growth and limitations of the workspace were identified, and in order to explore the future development direction of the shared office, a conclusion was drawn by classifying space elements into variability, mobility, and versatility.

Real Time Security System using Yolo Technology

For the majority of individuals, safety has now become a top priority. The rise in bank threats is concerning, as banks are frequently targeted by criminals. The rise in bank crimes has become a severe problem. To combat such dangers, it is critical to verify the identity of the person who enters the bank. The primary goal of this project is to create a gadget for bank security using Image processing. Because of this, many individuals who may or may not know us are gaining access to our personal workspace. There are other difficulties, such as the loss of important papers and valuables. Even the most advanced technology, such as a fingerprint sensor lock, may be easily opened. As a result, we will create an AI-based security room and locker system to address this issue. With the aid of our growing project, we were able to use facial recognition to discover and analyze people, as well as monitor them. In the proposed work, we apply LBPH (local binary pattern) and machine learning approaches to tackle the present system problem of reducing the recognize time of many items in less time with the best time complexity.

MONITORING OF PRIVATE SPACE WITH THE LOCAL BINARY PATTERN HISTOGRAM ALGORITHM

Abstract–The main goal of this project is to create an application for security purposes. Because of this, many individuals who may or may not know us are gaining access to our personal workspace. There are other difficulties, such as losing important papers and valuables. Even the most advanced technology, such as a fingerprint sensor lock, may be easily opened. As a result, we will create an AI-based security room and locker system to address this issue. This project used artificial intelligence to discover and evaluate people, as well as track them using our ongoing initiative. We tackle the current system problem in the proposed work using LBPH (local binary pattern) and machine learning approaches to lower the recognition time of many items in less time. Keywords— Face Recognition,Face Detection, Local Binary pattern Histogram Algorithm,Media Pipe.

Remote Work in a Changing World: A Nod to Personal Space, Self-Regulation and Other Health and Wellness Strategies.

Remote work has escalated as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, and citizens have been doing their part to mitigate the spread of viral infection. The downside of quickly switching from a workplace office to remote work is that neither employees nor employers have had time to consciously process the new work environment and formally evaluate health and safety concerns. The aim of this commentary was to make suggestions on how to make remote work more satisfying, safe, and healthy for employees. First, I explored existing research on disease outbreaks and mental stress as the backdrop for discussing health-related strategies. To determine which types of strategies or measures would help, next I examined existing organizational research, including a qualitative study by my colleagues on workers’ perceptions about what makes a healthy workplace. Themes that emerged from the qualitative study align with three broad recommendations discussed in this commentary: cultivating personal space, building in ergonomics, and boosting self-regulation (self-learning) skills. Finally, I suggested that future research should explore the joint roles of the worker and his/her management team in recognition of organizational commitment to occupational health and safety alongside each worker’s need for autonomy in their personal workspace.

How Work From Home Has Affected the Occupant's Well-Being in the Residential Built Environment: An International Survey Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract This paper presents the results from an international survey that investigated the impacts of the built environment on occupant well-being during the corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic when most professionals were forced to work from home (WFH). The survey was comprised of 81 questions focusing on the respondent's profiles, residences, home indoor environmental quality, health, and home working experiences. A total of 1460 responses were collected from 35 countries, and 1137 of them were considered complete for the analysis. The results suggest that home spatial layout has a significant impact on occupant well-being during WFH since home-life distractions and noises due to the lack of a personal workspace are likely to prevent productive work. Lack of scenic views, inadequate daylighting, and poor acoustics were also reported to be detrimental to occupant productivity and the general WFH experience. It is also revealed from this survey that temperature, relative humidity, and indoor air quality generally have higher satisfaction ratios compared with the indoor lighting and acoustic conditions, and the home layout. Hence, home design for lighting, acoustics, and layout should also receive greater attention in the future.

Shared Surfaces and Spaces: Collaborative Data Visualisation in a Co-located Immersive Environment.

Immersive technologies offer new opportunities to support collaborative visual data analysis by providing each collaborator a personal, high-resolution view of a flexible shared visualisation space through a head mounted display. However, most prior studies of collaborative immersive analytics have focused on how groups interact with surface interfaces such as tabletops and wall displays. This paper reports on a study in which teams of three co-located participants are given flexible visualisation authoring tools to allow a great deal of control in how they structure their shared workspace. They do so using a prototype system we call FIESTA: the Free-roaming Immersive Environment to Support Team-based Analysis. Unlike traditional visualisation tools, FIESTA allows users to freely position authoring interfaces and visualisation artefacts anywhere in the virtual environment, either on virtual surfaces or suspended within the interaction space. Our participants solved visual analytics tasks on a multivariate data set, doing so individually and collaboratively by creating a large number of 2D and 3D visualisations. Their behaviours suggest that the usage of surfaces is coupled with the type of visualisation used, often using walls to organise 2D visualisations, but positioning 3D visualisations in the space around them. Outside of tightly-coupled collaboration, participants followed social protocols and did not interact with visualisations that did not belong to them even if outside of its owner's personal workspace.

The impact of workspace location and indoor environmental quality on employees' satisfaction within office buildings: A case study in Cairo

Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) could influences employees' satisfaction and performance in office buildings. Previous research have suggested that factors such as gender, age, proximity from a window could influence employees' perceived satisfaction with IEQ. This study as a part of an ongoing research attempts to investigate the impact of workspace location on employees' satisfaction with IEQ parameters and overall satisfaction with personal workspace within office buildings in Cairo. Employees' subjective evaluation of satisfaction with IEQ parameters were collected using a questionnaire as a post occupancy evaluation survey. Responses were collected and quantitatively analysed using software package used for statistical analysis (SPSS). Diversity in levels of satisfaction among employees within the same building was found highly sensitive to their workspace location. Building orientation and external views could influence employees' satisfaction with IEQ parameters and overall satisfaction with personal workspace. Employees with highest perceived satisfaction with IEQ parameters and overall satisfaction with personal workspace seem to prefer their workspaces to be located on the ground floor, away from a window, either in the middle of the building or on the southern façade and not overlooking the courtyard. The study recommends that Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification criteria should reconsider employees' satisfaction with IEQ parameters in developing IEQ credits and LEED certification process.

Gender and job satisfaction in higher education institution: Case study from Uzbekistan

The purpose of this research is to explore the relationship between gender and job satisfaction, as well as its factors. The case study was conducted among academic and administrative staff at a university environment, to identify factors contributing to job satisfaction and their importance for female and male employees. Overall, there were 102 returned questionnaires and 20 interviews with academic and administrative employees.
 The relationships between gender and job satisfaction factors were found for specific factors such as personal workspace and job security. T-tests identified statistical significance for differences in satisfaction with personal workspace, relationship with co-workers, and support for training and development factors. Besides, more females are concerned with flexibility at work than males.

Evaluating Job Satisfaction of Latino/a Journalists in Multimedia Newsrooms: A Comparative Examination Between 2010 and 2017

ABSTRACTThis study provides an assessment of the current working conditions of Latino/a journalists employed at Latino-oriented news media outlets as well as those employed at legacy companies and evaluates their evolution through the past seven years. The 2010 and 2017 investigations used a quantitative methodology for data collection. Journalists were invited to voluntarily and anonymously participate in an online survey. The 2010 outcomes demonstrated that journalists were dissatisfied with their on-the-job training programs and opportunities to increase their salaries. Reporters were satisfied with their work shift, amount and type of work, health insurance and financial resources. The 2017 results indicate that journalists were dissatisfied with their annual merit increases, opportunities to increase salaries, current salaries, and promotion opportunities. The data also show that respondents were satisfied with their communication with work peers, professional relationships with other journalists, company’s dress code, anti-discrimination policy, and personal work space. Furthermore, the seven-year comparative examination documented that the on-the-job training programs had improved. The features of financial resources and university-educated supervisor had worsened. Results determined that other matters that were negative in 2010 remain negative in 2017 such as disappointment with current salary, lack of opportunities to increase salaries, and lack of promotion opportunities.

The \"Rap\" on ROF: Radio over Fiber Using Radio Access Point for High Data Rate Wireless Personal Area Networks

A wireless personal area network (WPAN) allows the wireless devices in a user's personal workspace to be connected to the network. Due to the huge increase in both the number of wireless communication subscribers and the bandwidth required per customer with the proliferation of smart devices, the low-frequency radio spectrum is becoming overcrowded. A natural solution for future WPANs is to migrate to higher radio frequency (RF) carriers [1]. High data-rate WPANs may be implemented based on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) compliant ultrawideband (UWB) standard [2] or on the IEEE 802.15.3c standard [3]. The UWB signal was defined by the FCC as a signal having a bandwidth larger than 20% of the carrier frequency or a bandwidth of at least 500 MHz in the 3.1-10.6-GHz band; IEEE 802.15.3c relies on a carrier frequency in the 60-GHz license-free industrial, scientific, and medical (ISM) band. The implementation of both the UWB standard and the IEEE 802.15.3c standard faces certain challenges, which may be tackled with the aid of radio over fiber (ROF) techniques that employ optical generation of the wireless signal. ROF networking solutions have been proposed for future high-bandwidth wireless communication systems that rely on the transmission of RF signals between the base station (BS) and remote antennas [1], [4]-[8].

How to improve your PubMed/MEDLINE searches: 3. advanced searching, MeSH and My NCBI

Summary Although the basic PubMed search is often helpful, the results may sometimes be non-specific. For more control over the search process you can use the Advanced Search Builder interface. This allows a targeted search in specific fields, with the convenience of being able to select the intended search field from a list. It also provides a history of your previous searches. The search history is useful to develop a complex search query by combining several previous searches using Boolean operators. For indexing the articles in MEDLINE, the NLM uses a controlled vocabulary system called MeSH. This standardised vocabulary solves the problem of authors, researchers and librarians who may use different terms for the same concept. To be efficient in a PubMed search, you should start by identifying the most appropriate MeSH terms and use them in your search where possible. My NCBI is a personal workspace facility available through PubMed and makes it possible to customise the PubMed interface. It provides various capabilities that can enhance your search performance.

住まいにおける妻の専用スペース要求と住み方

The purpose of this report is to highlight the increased need that married women have for personal space within their residences, and to discuss suitable locations for such space in the house plan from a lifestyle perspective. A strong need exists to maintain their own personal workspace in their home. It is not always a room, but sometimes it can be located in a corner of the living room or bedroom. There are two primary needs that govern the placement of the personal space, both of which relate deeply with their responsibility to perform housework and provide childcare. They are “the need to be separate from” and “the need to be adjacent to” the living room.

소프트웨어 릴리스를 구성하는 산출물들의 추적성 관리 기법

소프트웨어 시스템 각 개발단계에서 만들어지는 다양한 산출물들의 연관 관계를 추적하는 능력은 소프트웨어의 품질 관리에 필수적인 요소이다. 소프트웨어 릴리스는 신규 또는 변경된 산출물들의 집합(실행 프로그램 포함)을 고객에게 인도하는 것이다. 소프트웨어 릴리스를 구성하는 산출물들의 연관 관계를 정확하게 추적할 수 있어야 고객의 변경 요구나 기능 개선을 위한 효율적인 작업을 수행할 수 있으며, 릴리스 관리는 형상 관리와 변경 관리를 통합할 때 효율적으로 이루어질 수 있다. 본 논문은 개인 작업 공간과 형상 관리 시스템을 통합한 환경을 통해 산출물들의 변경 관리를 지원하고 릴리스를 구성하는 산출물들의 연관 관계를 효율적으로 추적할 수 있는 방법을 제시한다. 제시된 환경에서 산출물의 연관 관계를 추적하기 위해 시각화된 버전 그래프와 자동화된 태깅(tagging) 기능을 사용한다. The capacity for tracing relationships among various artifacts which are created at each phase of software system development is essential for software quality management. Software release refers to delivering a set of newly created or changed artifacts to customers. The relationships among artifacts which comprise software release must be traced so that the work for customer's requirement of change and functional enhancement is effectively established. And release management can be effectively realized through the integration of configuration management and change management. This paper proposes the technique for supporting change management of artifacts and for tracing relationships of artifacts which comprise software release through the integrated environment of personal workspace and configuration management system. In the proposed environment, the visualized version graph and automated tagging function are used for tracing relationships of artifacts.

Personal Work Space and Content Analysis Functionality in a Cultural Heritage Digital Library

The paper presents a different vision for personalization of the user’s stay in a cultural heritage digital library that models services for personalized content marking, commenting and analyzing that doesn’t require strict user pr ofi le, but aims at adjusting the user’s individual needs. The solution is borrowed from real work and studying of traditional written content sources (incl. books, manuals), where the user mainly performs activities such as underlining the important parts of the content, writing notes and inferences, selecting and marking zones of their interest in pictures, etc. In the paper a special attention is paid to the ability to execute learning analysis allowing different ways for the user to experience the digital library content with more creative settings.

Electric Circus, Electric Ear and the Intermedia Center in Late-1960s New York

Composer Morton Subotnick moved to New York in 1966 for a brief but productive stay, establishing a small but notable electronic music studio affiliated with New York University. It was built around an early Buchla system and became Subotnick's personal workspace and a creative home for a cluster of emerging young composers. Subotnick also provided artistic direction for a new multimedia discoteque, the Electric Circus, an outgrowth of ideas he formulated earlier at the San Francisco Tape Music Center. A Monday evening series at the Circus, Electric Ear, helped spawn a cluster of venues for new music and multimedia. While the NYU studio and Electric Ear represent examples of centers operating outside commercial forces, the Electric Circus was entrepreneurial in nature, which ultimately compromised its artistic values.