The effects of air temperature on office workers' well-being, workload and productivity-evaluated with subjective ratings

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-36

  Lan, Li ^a   Lian, Zhiwei ^a   Pan, Li ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Air temperature; Motivation; Productivity; Well being; Workload

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MOTIVATION; OFFICE BUILDINGS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; QUALITY CONTROL;

AIR TEMPERATURE; INDOOR AIR TEMPERATURE; INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SUBJECTIVE RATING SCALE; WELL BEING; WORKLOAD;

PRODUCTIVITY;

ADULT; AIR TEMPERATURE; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OFFICE WORKER; PRODUCTIVITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WELLBEING; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKLOAD;

EID: 77957317990     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2010.04.003     Document Type: Article

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