Combined effects of acoustic and visual distraction on cognitive performance and well-being

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 424-434

  Liebl, Andreas ^a,d   Haller, Jörg ^b   Jödicke, Bernd ^b   Baumgartner, Herwig ^c   Schlittmeier, Sabine ^d   Hellbrück, Jürgen ^d  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BUILDING PHYSICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c Faculty of Civil Engineering   (Germany)

^d CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EICHSTÄTT INGOLSTADT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acoustic distraction; Office noise; Performance; Visual distraction; Well being

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; LIGHTING; SPEECH;

COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE; EXPERIMENTAL TESTING; OFFICE NOISE; PERCEIVED PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; VISUAL DISTRACTIONS; WELL BEING;

SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ILLUMINATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WELLBEING; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 80054714791     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: 18729126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2011.06.017     Document Type: Article

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