The objective of this research is to determine the relationship between the evaluation of office privacy and communication, and to ascertain the importance of these factors to office workers(i.e., in office environment evaluation). This research project comprised 1) interviews with office workers, 2) color photographs-based assessment, 3) questionnaire-based surveys, and 4) experimentation using full-sized office models. The photographs-based assessment yielded different experimental results than did the questionaire-based surveys (designed to solicit assessment of an actual office) with respect to participants' assessment of privacy and communication. Experimentation using full-sized office models was carried out to determine the reason for these disparate results, upon which we found that assessment of an actual office environment is not merely determined by the office's physical properties, but rather also depends on whether the office is seen as conducive to the work (i.e., activities) performed there.
