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This study mainly explores the design of office environments from the perspective of humans with the hope to provide helpful guidance for intelligent offices and related workspace design in the future.

Results show that learning environments with biophilic design are more effective in supporting pupils' attentional performance than conventional learning environments and, over time, strengthen the feeling of affiliation with Nature.

The findings indicate that environments can enhance attention not only in the general population but also in ADHD populations, and “Doses of nature” might serve as a safe, inexpensive, widely accessible new tool in the tool kit for managing ADHD symptoms.

The development of the Biophilic Design Matrix (BDM) was to aid designers or other specialists in identifying and quantifying biophilic features through a visual inventory of interior spaces, revealing thatBiophilic attributes were constantly present in some spaces while others were completely absent.

Children were more distracted by the visual environment, spent more time off task, and demonstrated smaller learning gains when the walls were highly decorated than when the decorations were removed.

The moral vision of bringing nature into city design reflects a shared understanding and collective goal beyond self-interest.

The literature review shows that VE is capable of supporting critical features of biophilic design studies such as representing combinations ofBiophilic patterns, providing multimodal sensory inputs, simulating stress induction tasks, and supporting required exposure time to observe biophobic patterns.

Analysis of the eye-tracking data indicated that the scanpaths of children with TD and ASD were characterized by eye movements geometrically equivalent to Lévy flights, and a clustering analysis revealed a greater dispersion of eye movements for these children.

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