TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Asakawa, Shinsuke
AU  - Shimono, Akinori
AU  - Takahashi, Mikiko
AU  - Yamane, Shoko
AU  - Sasaki, Masaru
        TI  - The Effect of Visual Openness in Meeting Rooms on Team Productivity and Communication Quality: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
        PY  - 2025/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 18058
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp18058
        AB  - This study investigates whether a meeting environment’s visual openness influences team productivity and communication quality. We conducted a randomized controlled trial with participants assigned to discussions held in a transparent glass meeting room (treatment) or a fully curtained room (control). Team productivity was evaluated based on the quality of participants’ policy proposals. Communication quality was assessed using transcript-based indicators such as laugh frequency and topic diversity. We found that groups in visually open meeting rooms received significantly higher proposal ratings and exhibited greater emotional positivity and topic diversity, highlighting that within-session dynamics expose how environmental design affects group interaction.
        KW  - randomized controlled trial
KW  - visual openness
KW  - communication quality
KW  - team productivity
KW  - workplace design
KW  - natural language processing
        ER  -