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Partition system for open-plan office spaces

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1985
The partition system disclosed herein incorporates apparatus for generating a speech masking acoustic field. Respective speakers are mounted near the bottom of each of a plurality of partition panel segments defining each work space and are aimed horizontally.
Thomas R. Horrall, Parker W. Hirtle
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Ambient noise in open plan offices

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1989
This paper summarizes ambient noise data that were collected in open plan offices over the past 2 years. The approach centered on monitoring the noise level in empty workstations to establish some statistics of the noise that would be auditioned by a person sitting in that workstation during a normal work day.
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Sound masking system for open plan office

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1979
This invention relates to a system for masking conversation in an open plan office. A conventional generator of electrical random noise currents feeds its output through adjustable electric filter means to speaker clusters in a plenum above the office space.
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Privacy and communication in an open-plan office: A case study

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1980
As two departments moved from conventional offices at corporate headquarters to a nearby open plan office, 70 employees at five job levels completed a questionnaire before and after the move. The lowest levels (secretaries) moved from free-standing desks to partially enclosed work spaces; those at middle level II left double offices for single ...
Eric Sundstrom, R. Kring Herbert, David W. Brown   +2 more
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Users' privacy preferences in open plan offices

Facilities, 2008
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore managers' and employees' opinions regarding privacy in open plan offices and also investigate the relationship between the perception of managers and employees on visual and acoustical privacy in order to provide better design solutions in an open plan office setting.Design/methodology/approachThe research
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Generation Y in open plan offices

Proceedings of the 18th Annual European Real Estate Society Conference - Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 2011
Rasila, Heidi, Rothe, Peggie
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Case study: Open plan “closed” offices or closed plan “open” offices

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2017
In today’s built environment designers likes to blur the lines between categories and closed and open offices are no exception. Spaces are being built with high walls and doors but no ceilings. The occupants often call these “private” offices but how “private” are they?
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Using genetic algorithm to automate the generation of an open-plan office layout

International Journal of Architectural Computing, 2021
I-Ming Chen, robert tiong
exaly  

THE LOMBARD EFFECT IN OPEN PLAN OFFICES

ACOUSTICS 2019, 2023
P LEONARD, A CHILTON
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Precision of ISO 3382-2 and ISO 3382-3 – A Round-Robin test in an open-plan office

Applied Acoustics, 2021
Valtteri O Hongisto, Jukka Keränen
exaly