Solving the problem of speech distraction in open-plan offices

解决开放式办公室的言语分散问题

• 批准号: DP160103978
• 负责人: Prof Richard De Dear
• 金额: $ 28.28万
• 依托单位: The University of Sydney
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2019-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP160103978
• 关键词: Solving; problem; speech; distraction; open

The project aims to better understand how irrelevant speech in open-plan offices affects the occupants’ cognitive performance and creates annoyance leading to a loss of productivity. Over 97% of Australian office workers are located in open-plan offices. Without internal walls, open-plan offices are designed to make people interact more frequently, therefore be more collaborative and productive. Yet there is a high level of dissatisfaction with open-plan layout because of frequent distraction by background speech from co-workers, which has been shown to significantly decrease work performance and productivity. The intended outcomes of the project are the development of powerful new tools to measure, model and predict the degree of speech distraction at work, enabling the establishment of new international standards that will increase work performance and productivity.

该项目旨在更好地了解开放式办公室中不相关的言论如何影响居住者的认知表现，并造成烦恼，导致生产力下降。超过97%的澳大利亚办公室工作人员位于开放式办公室。没有内部墙壁，开放式办公室的设计使人们更频繁地互动，因此更具协作性和生产力。然而，人们对开放式布局的不满程度很高，因为经常会被同事的背景讲话分散注意力，这已被证明会显着降低工作绩效和生产力。该项目的预期成果是开发强大的新工具来测量、建模和预测工作中的言语分心程度，从而建立新的国际标准，提高工作绩效和生产力。