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Creation Date
Spring 2026
Description
This image captures the Aesthetic Enrichment intervention room of my master's thesis, which examines how aesthetic enrichment (beautifying a room with art and plants) and music affect employee well-being and job performance in a work simulation. This environment directly contrasts the bare control room by incorporating factors known to promote energy restoration: optimal lighting, plants, and landscape art. The use of nature scenes with blues and greens is specifically intended to lower stress and increase well-being, following the Attention Restoration Theory (ART) and the biophilia hypothesis which explains the natural human desire to gravitate towards nature. Participants complete a work simulation task in this setting, allowing us to measure the effect of this visual enrichment, either alone or in combination with music, stress, well-being, and task performance. By visually enhancing the workspace, this study explores a practical intervention to improve employee outcomes without significant architectural changes.