The effects of thermal discomfort on task performance, fatigue and mental work load examined in a subjective experiment

9th International Conference and Exhibition - Healthy Buildings 2009, HB 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Haneda, Masaoki ^a,b   Wargocki, Pawel ^a   Dalewski, Mariusz ^a   Tanabe, Shin Ichi ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fatigue; Mental workload; Performance; Productivity; Thermal environment

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHAMBERS; MENTAL FATIGUE; MENTAL WORK; MENTAL WORKLOAD; OPERATIVE TEMPERATURE; PERFORMANCE; SUBJECTIVE EXPERIMENTS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THERMAL ENVIRONMENT; THERMAL SENSATION VOTES;

EXHIBITIONS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FELT; PRODUCTIVITY;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84872652062     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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