Shape the Sound in Space: Design to Refine Speech Privacy Perception

"Shape the Sound in Space: Design to Refine Speech Privacy Perception" provides new knowledge for the design of semi-enclosed meeting rooms in open plan offices, and discovery in the area of human sound perception, privacy, and unconscious influences of the surrounding built environment on the volume at which we speak. Through developing matrices of studies and exploring geometries parametrically, this interdisciplinary research suggests a blueprint for architects to design a meeting pod where sound performance is fundamental to the use of space.