DEVELOPMENT OF INTEGRATED EVALUATION METHOD FOR INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS AND ARCHITECTURAL SPACES BASED ON HUMAN MOTIVATION

Abstract

Workplaces are under reconsideration in ways that making environment with individual differences. However, most of psychological evaluations of workplace environments and equipment systems were carried with rating scale method, and the results were individual. In this study, we developed an evaluation method that can perform psychological analysis from the aspect of behavioral motivations for workplace environment management and visualize the distribution of its individual differences, by applying Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. This paper reports the results of a survey using proposed method. Workplace environmental factors are evaluated with qualitative and quantitative discussions on characteristics of behavioral orientations.