Exploring Work Environment Usage Behaviour through Context-Aware Mobile Methods
Piia M. H. Markkanen, Niels van Berkel, Aku Visuri, Arthur LeSaint, Denzil Ferreira, Aulikki Herneoja · 2019
This paper presents our findings on knowledge work environment usage behaviour through a combined automated mobile indoor positioning system and self-reports collected from the environment's inhabitants.Contemporary work environments are increasingly flexible multi-occupant environments as opposed to cellular offices.Understanding persons' task-related and situation-related environmental needs is critical to improve the design of future knowledge work environments.This study is conducted in a team office environment prior to and following an intervention in which the office layout was re-organized.The combined methodological approach described in this paper provides a new tool for architecture researchers aiming to understand the use of workspaces.Importantly, combining self-reports with context-aware location data collection provides researchers an efficient in situ tool to access participants experiences and decision-making process in choosing their workstation or workspace.