Indoor temperature, productivity, and fatigue in office tasks

HVAC and R Research

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 623-633

  Tanabe, Shin Ichi ^a,b   Nishihara, Naoe ^a   Haneda, Masaoki ^b  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of Architecture ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; HUMAN ENGINEERING; OFFICE BUILDINGS; STRESSES;

INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; MENTAL EFFORT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

THERMAL COMFORT;

EID: 34347235104     PISSN: 10789669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10789669.2007.10390975     Document Type: Article

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