A typical open-plan office layout is unable to optimally host multiple collocated work activities, personal needs, and situational events, as its space exerts a range of environmental demands on workers in terms of maintaining their acoustic, visual or privacy comfort. As we hypothesise that these demands could be coped by optimising the environmental resources of the architectural layout, we deployed a mobile robotic partition that autonomously manoeuvres between predetermined locations. During a five-weeks in-the-wild study within a real-world open-plan office, we studied how 13 workers adopted four distinct adaptation strategies when sharing the spatiotemporal control of the robotic partition. Based on their logged and self-reported reasoning, we present six initiation regulating factors that determine the appropriateness of each adaptation strategy. This study thus contributes to how future human-building interaction could autonomously improve the experience, comfort, performance, and even the health and wellbeing of multiple workers that share the same workplace.

翻译：典型的开放式办公室布局无法最优地支持多个共处的工作活动、个人需求和情境事件，因为其空间在声学、视觉或隐私舒适度方面对员工施加了一系列环境需求。我们假设这些需求可以通过优化建筑布局的环境资源来应对，因此部署了一台可在预设位置间自主移动的机器人隔断。在真实开放式办公室中进行的为期五周的实地研究里，我们探究了13名员工在共享机器人隔断时空控制权时如何采用四种不同的适应策略。基于他们的记录和自述理由，我们提出了六个启动调节因素，这些因素决定了每种适应策略的适宜性。本研究因而为未来人-建筑交互如何自主改善共享同一工作空间的多个员工的体验、舒适度、表现乃至健康与福祉做出了贡献。