Sleep Quality, Arousal and the Distance to Window in Offices-A Field Survey Study of Office Lighting in The High-Density Urban Areas
LIN Yi
LIU Cong
FU Meiqi
DONG Yingjun
Abstract：Office employees spend the majority of daytime hours in the buildings in which they work. In high-density urban areas, offices are relatively deep with low ceilings due to the site conditions, structural demands and policy/economic constraints. 20 office spaces were surveyed and 190 occupants of 16 group or open-plan offices completed questionnaires in order to seek the relations between sleep quality, fatigue, pleasure, arousal and distance to the nearest window. The results show clear correlations between two sleep quality items- ‘feel refresh or not’ , ‘fall asleep easily or not’ and ‘distance to window’;being closer to windows were beneficial to office occupants ’ sleep quality. Fatigue and pleasure was not significantly associated with ‘distance to window ’ . Only one arousal item- ‘sleepy ’ showed the clear correlations to‘distance to the window’ .
Keywords：sleep qualityarousalwindowofficehigh-density urban area
Publication Date：2016-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：6( 32-37 )