Elimination of Excessive Noise at the Open Office Workplace

Stress and open-office noise.

Forty female clerical workers were randomly assigned to a control condition or to 3-hr exposure to low-intensity noise designed to simulate typical open-office noise levels. The simulated open-office noise elevated workers' urinary epinephrine levels, but not their norepinephrine or cortisol levels, and it produced behavioral aftereffects (fewer attempts at unsolvable puzzles) indicative of mot...

Wearables in the Workplace: Sensing Interactions at the Office

Wearable computers, such as PDAs and cell phones, are proliferating in organizations. This paper introduces a methodology for leveraging this wearable infrastructure to provide insight to the underlying social dynamics of an organization. The work lays a foundation that will enable a variety of applications, from knowledge management to organizational simulation.

Perception and evaluation of noise sources in open plan office

Assessment of Noise Effect on Employee Comfort in an Open-Plan Office: Validation of an Assessment Questionnaire

Background: Today, open-plan offices are among the most common work environments. Although the noise in these environments is usually below the standard level, it is one of the critical annoyance factors due to the nature of the mental work. Accordingly, this study aimed to assess noise effects on employee comfort and validate the Persian version of the assessment of noise effects on employee c...

Impulsive Noise Elimination Considering the Bit Planes Information of the Image

Impulsive noise is one of the imposed defectives degrades the quality of images. Performance of many image processing applications directly depends on the quality of the input image. Hence, it is necessary to de-noise the degraded images without losing their valuable information such as edges. In this paper we propose a method to remove impulsive noise from color images without damaging the ima...