Human Response to Window Views and Indoor Plants in the Workplace

What the study found

Nature views and indoor plants were associated with lower tension or anxiety across several conditions compared with no-view/no-plant settings.

Limitations

Simulated setting; multiple conditions; older measurement methods; short exposure.

Neurodesign interpretation

A window and a plant are both called 'biophilic,' but one extends the visual field and the other inserts living content nearby. They should not be treated as interchangeable.

Possible design implications

Separate exterior nature views from interior planting in future tests because they may operate through different mechanisms.

Why it stays in the corpus

Retain as a direct workplace view-plus-plants experiment.

Study design

Six-condition psychophysiological experiment

Population

Adult participants

Setting

Simulated workplace

Field

Workplace biophilia

Mechanism

Anxiety, psychophysiological response

Spatial variable

Window view, indoor plants

Keywords

windows, plants, workplace, anxiety, psychophysiology