Limitations and Improving the Study

Essentially, the overall experiment encompassed various limitations that raised more questions than they did with answers. The approach of the overall experiment consisted of many flaws, as outlined prior, that in effect interfered with identifying the effect of blue and green biophilic colour exposures on wellbeing. The data conducted from the number of participants that were part of this study (N=11) imply that a larger sample is needed to validate outcome data. In addition, the use of generic performance tasks questioned the ecological validity of the proposed experiment. As further raised by Kellert and Calabrese (2015), biophilic design requires repeated and sustained engagement with nature - elsewise, the adopted strategies oppose the essence biophilia, and present insignificant impact on measures of wellbeing. An improved version of the study would therefore present a more substantial amount of biophilic exposure and in more than one setting. To better improve the interpretation of the results, an improved experiment could further represent tasks that could be formulated in a single index. It is also important to note that the broader contributions of the individual, social, and economic, factors influencing wellbeing were taken into very little consideration and therefore performance affected by extraneous factors was not accounted for.

4 . 0 C O N C L U S I O N

The presented study conducted an experiment through environmental measures and biophilic design interventions, in efforts of outlining the effects of biophilic colour exposures on wellbeing. The results indicated that task performance and wellbeing are affected by blue and green hue exposures, however there were various flaws in the experiment that affected knowing exactly what factors determined these results. The experiment methodology made it difficult to conclude which intervention led to a more conducive state of wellbeing. This is not to say however that the study was false, but rather that there remains a deep need for understanding more practically how to approach experiment design and better account for the complex systems that inform a wellbeing enhancing environment.

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