A Study on the Rationality of Office Feng Shui Based on Ergonomics
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 re
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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. Keywords Office
Feng Shui Ergonomics Subjective evaluation
X. Shen W. He B. Chen L. Ding (&) School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China e-mail: [email protected] X. Shen e-mail: [email protected] W. He e-mail: [email protected] B. Chen e-mail: [email protected] © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017 W. Chung and C.S. Shin (eds.), Advances in Affective and Pleasurable Design, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing 483, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-41661-8_29
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1 Introduction Office workers comprise an increasing proportion of working population worldwide [1]. As their work performance is influenced by the environment of office workplace, to design a comfortable office environment has been a growing concern for researchers. There have been an intersection of various disciplines in interior design as well as ergonomics. One of them is office Feng Shui theory, which draws wisdom from ancient Chinese philosophy. The Feng Shui theory is a traditional Chinese architectural concept for selecting the favorable dwelling sites and building layout designs [2]. It is regarded as being capable of bringing health, comfort and even fortune. Contemporary office Feng Shui theory derives from the ancient one and is expressed in a modern context. There has been some interdisciplinary research on office Feng Shui from the perspectives of architectural design [3, 4], environmental psychology [5] and business culture [6]. Mak and Ng [4] found that the selection of interior layout as proposed by the architects generally concurs with the ideal Feng Shui model. Furthermore, Octavia and Gunawan [3] came to a conclusion that many Feng Shui recommendations bring positive impact and some others neutral ones based on the sustainable architectural design principles. However, hardly any experimental evidence have been obtained to validate the influence of Feng Shui design. Ergonomic methods have great potential to solve t
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