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Shall We Have Better Seats?

With the current layout of ITP classrooms, I usually cannot have full sight of the screen and whiteboard. Sometimes other people's heads block my view, and other times the whiteboard is just at the blind point of the seat.

 

I wrote these two questions on the whiteboard to test the view of each seat. The blue dots on image1 are the spots where I wrote. 

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Here is the result.

  1. Red areas illustrate the seat with a blind point and the red arrow points to the sentence hard to see from that area. More than half of the seats cannot have a full vision of the whiteboard.

  2. The images show what the sentence looks like from the bad seats. You may find that seats at the back have larger blind areas. 

  3. Because the seats form a straight row one behind another, people sitting at the back have more heads in front of them, blocking their views. 

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The current layout.

Blue dots are the position of questions

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Test-1

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Here is the result.

  1. With this triangle layout, seats at the back have a better view. The number of seats with annoying blind points is significantly reduced. 

  2. This layout uses less tables without reducing the number of seats. 

  3. The unusable space in the middle of tables is narrowed. So, there are more space in the classroom for moving and showing large projects. 

  4. The leaning row differentiates sight paths from different seats. So, sights are less likely to be blocked by others. 

Test-2

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Here is the result.

  1. This T-shape layout shares most of the advantages of the trangle layout-- less tables needed, less  blind points, more open space. 

  2. However, it shares one of the disadvantage of the current layout: no leaning angle, sight is still likely to be blocked by other students in front. 

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