Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160103978

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP160103978

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Solving the problem of speech distraction in open-plan offices. 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.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2016

End Date: 30-04-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $405,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Building Science and Techniques | Architectural Science and Technology (incl. Acoustics, Lighting, Structure and Ecologically Sustainable Design) | Building |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Productivity (excl. Public Sector) | Expanding Knowledge in Built Environment and Design | Occupational Health

Other Keywords

Architectural Science and Technology (incl. Acoustics, Lighting, Structure and Ecologically Sustainable Design) | Building | Building Science and Techniques | Expanding Knowledge in Built Environment and Design | Occupational Health | Productivity (excl. Public Sector)

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