Title
Effects of meeting room interior design on team performance in a creativity task
Author
de Korte, E.
Kuijt, L.
van der Kleij, R.
Publication year
2011
Abstract
This study examines the effects of spatial characteristics of meeting rooms on the divergent phase in the creativity process of a group and on the mood states arousal and psychological safety. Thirty participants (12 male and 18 female) were randomly allocated to 10 mixed-gender three-person groups. They performed two creativity tasks in three different rooms: neutral, with high arousal and with high psychological safety. Overall impression of the meeting room interiors, psychological safety, arousal and creative performance were measured with questionnaires. HRV was used as physiological measure. Results showed that physical space affected arousal and the impression of the meeting rooms. HRV appeared to be a good predictor for arousal. A relation was found between HRV and idea originality. An interaction effect between meeting room interior and task was found. It may be concluded that the meeting room interior has to be adapted to the type of creativity task to gain optimal results. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
Subject
Organisation Human
SP - Sustainable Productivity HOI - Human Behaviour & Organisational Innovations
BSS - Behavioural and Societal Sciences
Workplace
Arousal
Creativity
Heart rate variability
Innovation spaces
Meeting room
Mood
New ways of working
Psychological safety
Team performance
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21716-6_7
TNO identifier
431383
ISBN
9783642217159
ISSN
0302-9743
Source
International Conference on Ergonomics and Health Aspects of Work with Computers, EHAWC 2011, Held as Part of HCI International 2011, 9 July 2011 through 14 July 2011, Orlando, FL. Conference code: 85487, 6779 LNCS, 59-67
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Document type
conference paper