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Entrant point of view toward their environment is essential to build an assumption of the comfort
level perspective.
• Question 3: How do you describe the relationship between you and your environment? (Table 4)
Table 4: Participant connection to their surroundings
Feel connected No specific feeling I feel disconnect- Any comment to
and satisfied
ed and uncomadd further
fortable
All Data

26
(34.21%)

33
(43.42%)

19
(25%)

3
(3.95%)

Responses

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In the following question, answers will paint a picture of the audience opinion toward indoor
presence.
• Question 4: Do you think adding more greenery elements may affect you? (Table 5)
Table 5: Participant perception about adding indoor plants

All Data

Yes,
Positively

Yes,
negatively

No

Standard
Deviation

Responses

63
(96.92%)

1
(1.54%)

1
(1.54%)

29.23

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As mentioned before, indoor pollution could be one of the reasons of lung diseases and sick
building syndrome because of less ventilation and poor air quality. Therefore, participants were
asked the two following questions:
• Question 5: Do you feel any symptoms during being in the place you chose in earlier question?
(Table 6)
Table 6: Participant feeling of symptoms
All Data

Yes

No

Standard Deviation

Responses

30
(39.47%)

46
(60.53%)

8

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• Question 6:If yes, can you specify one of the following symptoms that you suffer from? (Table 7)
Table 7: More specific symptoms

All Data

Headache

Dizziness

Eye pain

Coughing

Sneezing

18
(48.65%)

12
(32.43%)

5
(13.51%)

6
(16.22%)

8
(21.62%)

Other symp- Responses
toms please
specify
5
(13.51%)

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In this section, there is a small experiment to be conducted; the purpose of this is to observe the
level of psychological satisfaction for building users when plants are present or absent. Participants rated their level of satisfaction for each photo they were shown, and the results are shown
in the following tables below (Table 8, 9 and 10).
In the study, the working indoor environment has been taken into consideration where putting
greenery plants into an office space and also allowing the audience to choose which conditions
are better in terms of before or after adding those plants/pots as shown below (Fig.8).

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