Effects of Changes to Architectural Elements on Human Relaxation-Arousal Responses: Based on VR and EEG

What the study found

Changes to room proportions, ceiling height and window ratio produced differences in EEG-derived relaxation-arousal indices.

Limitations

Single sex and context; EEG ratio interpretation is coarse; VR exposure; multiple manipulated variables.

Neurodesign interpretation

This paper is useful less for a universal 'best proportion' and more because it shows that elementary architectural geometry can be experimentally isolated.

Possible design implications

Treat proportions and window geometry as testable variables rather than stylistic preferences.

Why it stays in the corpus

Retain as a direct spatial-variable experiment.

Study design

Within-subject VR plus EEG experiment

Population

33 female participants

Setting

Virtual private-room environments

Field

Neuroarchitecture

Mechanism

Relaxation-arousal, EEG alpha/beta

Spatial variable

Aspect ratio, ceiling height, window ratio

Keywords

ceiling height, window ratio, aspect ratio, EEG, VR