Tom and I conducted survey with ITP students about the current experience of the floor.
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What is your overall experience on the floor in few words?
→ 44% of students expressed negative feelings like stressful, distracting, isolated
- “Bustling and warm and stressful”
- “kind of stressful”
- “I feel like there aren’t enough people to help me out”
- “Tiring and distracting”
- “Mixed emotions lots of laughter and lots of stressful rants”
- “work and work”
- “the floor is good sometimes it can be distracting bc there is so much going on, but also I feel like I can always find help”
- “community, sometimes i feel like part of the community and sometimes i feel isolated from it”
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How would you rate stress level while you are on the floor?
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When you feel exhausted on the floor, what do you usually do?
→ When students feel exhausted, they usually wanted to find some personal space for themselves, but floor is overall open place, there are only few phone booth.
- “I sit on the couches near the front. I wish we had more comfortable seating options in general.”
- “find a phone room to decompress, or if it's too crowded I leave”
- “Find a corner to hid and still continue the work”
- “Drag a beanbag to a dark photo booth and rest. Or take a nap on the coding lab sofa”
- “I try to lay down on the couch or cushions near the front door.”
- “sit somewhere where there are less people (like that lounge area by the back stairs near the instruments) and have some space for myself”
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What kind of mental support would you like to have on the floor?
→ Students wanted more private space with sound privacy or to talk with someone for mental support
- “More call booths for temporary sound privacy”
- “Want more private space away from the SHOP traffic. The current floor is too open and has too little cozy space that one can hide and rest”
- “designated quiet rooms to be alone”
- “Space to decompress in order to reset my mind in a way”
- “Don't know, maybe a psychology professional who you can talk to.”
- “A walk in therapist who understands creative stress and exhaustion”
- “maybe cute reminders on the wall about how you're enough or you're special and unique”
- “Perhaps some light music - I was dreaming of having ocean sounds on the floor the other day.”
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If there is a physical device that can record your feelings anonymously through your voice, would you like to use it and share it with others?
→ 55.6% of students answered “Maybe” for sharing their feelings anonymously through the physical device.
