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Regodon, ACorresponding AuthorGarcia-Navalon, EAuthorGarcia-Santos, AAuthorLearnings from User Digital Trail Post-Occupancy Evaluation before COVID-19 for Future Workplace Analysis and Design
Publicated to:Buildings. 11 (11): 513- - 2021-11-01 11(11), DOI: 10.3390/buildings11110513
Authors: Regodon, Alicia; Garcia-Navalon, Enrique; Santiso-Hernandez, Juvenal; Delgado-Rodriguez, Enrique; Garcia-Santos, Alfonso;
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Abstract
Data are required for optimizing workplace design, assessing user experience, and ensuring wellbeing. This research focuses on the benefits of incorporating post-occupancy evaluation (POE) data analysis by studying the digital trail of employees generated by the existing Wi-Fi infrastructure of the office. The objective is to enable a safe return to offices through compliance with COVID-19 space-capacity regulations and in consideration of the health and wellbeing of employees. Workplaces, teams, and people have become more digitalized and therefore more mobile due to the globalization of knowledge and cutting-edge technological innovations, a process that has been accelerated by the COVID-19 crisis. Now, hybrid work and fully remote working routines are increasing in a significant number of companies. Nevertheless, with the return to the office, understanding how to calibrate spatial capacity is now key for workplaces and companies. Traditional assessment methods are obsolete; new methods that respond to mobility, changing occupancy rates, and comfort are essential. This paper analyzes, through the case study of a pre-COVID-19 activity-based office, the advantages of using digital indoor-location techniques (such as Wi-Fi networks, which additionally have the advantage of being previously installed in the majority of these spaces). The paper demonstrates that the incorporation of digital POE of user trends enabled a more seamless, accurate, and scalable return to a new normal office work scenario and an improved post-COVID-19 design of workplaces.
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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel
The work has been published in the journal Buildings due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2021, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Architecture. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.
From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from the Field Citation Ratio (FCR) of the Dimensions source, it yields a value of: 2.8, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: Dimensions Sep 2025)
Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-09-19, the following number of citations:
- WoS: 2
- Scopus: 6
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors
There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (REGODON PUYALTO, ALICIA) and Last Author (GARCIA SANTOS, ARACELI).
the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been REGODON PUYALTO, ALICIA.