Effect of humidity on human comfort and productivity after step changes from warm and humid environment

Building and Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4034-4042

  Tsutsumi, Hitomi ^a   Tanabe, Shin ichi ^a   Harigaya, Junkichi ^a   Iguchi, Yasuo ^b   Nakamura, Gen ^b  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Shin Nippon Air Technologies Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Comfort; Humidity; Productivity; Step change; Subjective experiment

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVAPORATION; OFFICE BUILDINGS; THERMAL COMFORT;

CLIMATE CHAMBERS; HUMAN COMFORT; THERMAL SENSATION;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVAPORATION; OFFICE BUILDINGS; THERMAL COMFORT;

AIR TEMPERATURE; HUMIDITY;

EID: 34547937543     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2006.06.037     Document Type: Article

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