Richardson Mike, Jicol Crescent, Taulo Gerald, Park Jaehyun, Kim Hyun K, Proulx Michael J, de Sousa Alexandra A
CREATE Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom.
Department of Computer Science, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom.
Front Psychol. 2023 Mar 22;14:1043088. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1043088. eCollection 2023.
We sought to understand how the perception of personal space is influenced by different levels of social density, spatial density, and type of window-view in South Korean and United Kingdom workplaces. We employed virtual reality to simulate shared and single occupancy offices. We obtained personal space estimations using a virtual disc around the participant which could be extended and retracted, inside the simulation, to indicate perceived amount of personal space, and compared this measure to questionnaire-based estimations. We found that in both cultures participants experienced greater perceived personal space (1) when in a sparse rather than dense office and (2) having a view of the city outside the office. However, British, but not Korean, participants had significantly higher personal space estimations in single occupancy offices than in shared offices. These results suggest subtle cross-cultural differences in workplace experience, that could only be investigated using virtual reality.
我们试图了解在韩国和英国的工作场所中，个人空间的感知是如何受到不同程度的社会密度、空间密度和窗外景观类型影响的。我们利用虚拟现实技术来模拟共享办公空间和单人办公空间。我们通过在模拟环境中围绕参与者的虚拟圆盘来获取个人空间的估计值，该圆盘可以在模拟环境中进行伸缩，以表明个人空间的感知量，并将这一测量结果与基于问卷的估计值进行比较。我们发现，在两种文化中，参与者在以下两种情况下会感受到更大的个人空间：（1）在空间稀疏而非密集的办公室中；（2）能看到办公室外的城市景观。然而，英国参与者（而非韩国参与者）在单人办公空间中的个人空间估计值显著高于共享办公空间。这些结果表明，工作场所体验中存在微妙的跨文化差异，而这种差异只能通过虚拟现实技术进行研究。
