| The authors tested three hypotheses dealing with the
decoration of windowed and windowless offices. The first hypothesis was
that to compensate for the deprivation, windowless offices should contain
more visual materials than windowed offices. The second was that the
visual materials in windowless offices should contain more landscape and
cityscape scenes than windowed offices. The third hypothesis was that a
nature content should dominate the visual material in a windowless office.
The wall decor found in 75 offices on the campus of University of
Washington supported hypotheses one and three. Hypothesis number two was
not completed supported by the findings at the university, windowless
offices did not contain more surrogate views than windowed offices. |