The aim of the study is to clarify the effect of layout and communication on personal creativity and psychological evaluation in study work space. Creativity means to create some product but not to do businesslike work. In last experiment an experiment was produced about businesslike work.
Simulated experiments are produced in a simulated study space with 8 kinds of layout by 8 subjects for one group, who are asked to make wood block. The aim of this study is to clarify the effect of the layout and communication on creativity and psychological evaluation. 8 kinds of layout are often seen in study work space, which include wall-type, island-type, the same direction type and so on. 8 kinds of layout contain 7 kinds of layout in last experiment and slanting island-type. The room for experiment is 7.87 meters long, 3.6 meters wide, and 3.15 meters high, where 8 desks are arranged.
During the experiment, subjects are asked to make wood block work for 5 minutes by a decided theme, and to reply questionnaire regarding to psychological evaluation after they finished the wood block work, and asked to make the score of the wood block work by themselves, taking 100 points as perfection. Then they are asked to move to another kind of layout and repeat the work again. 6 groups include 48 subjects. 3 groups are permitted talking with each other, while the other 3 groups are not permitted talking during experiments. Subjects are aged from 19 years to 24 years old, who are undergraduate students or graduate students.
Analysis contains self-evaluation of work of wood block and psychological evaluation.
Regarding to self-evaluation of work of wood block, modified score is defined as that score divide the average of all score of the same subject. For results, the follows are found. 1. In the case of difficult theme without talking, the self-evaluation of product in meeting-type is found well. 2. In the case of ease theme with talking, the self-evaluation of product in layout without intersection of sight is found well. 3. In the case of talking, wall-tape with edge is best for creativity, while in the case of no talking, island-type with edge is best for creativity. 4. It is difficult to say talking always help creativity. 5. In slanting meeting type, self-evaluation of work is high, because the intersection of sight helps people to communicate. In fact, it is found that intersection of sights prevent businesslike work in last experiment. 6. It can be say that intersection of eyes is a kind of communication.
Regarding to the psychological evaluation, the follows are found. 1. Psychological evaluation is divided to spatial evaluation and emotional evaluation. 2. Psychological evaluation without talking is better than that with talking. 3. In the case of talking, both spatial evaluation and emotional evaluation in island-type with edge is the highest. In the wall-type, both spatial evaluation and emotional evaluation in island-type with edge is the lowest. In the case of no talking, spatial evaluation in island-type is the highest. Emotional evaluation of 8 kinds of layout is similar.
The issue in future is to study group creativity and contact the difference of creativity in different facilities.
