Influence of indoor air temperature on human thermal comfort, motivation and performance

Building and Environment

Volumn 68, Issue , 2013, Pages 114-122

  Cui, Weilin ^a   Cao, Guoguang ^a   Park, Jung Ho ^a   Ouyang, Qin ^a   Zhu, Yingxin ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Air temperature; Learning effect; Motivation; Performance; Thermal comfort

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; HUMAN THERMAL COMFORT; INDOOR AIR TEMPERATURE; LEARNING EFFECTS; MOTIVATION AND PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE; SUBJECTIVE EXPERIMENTS; TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MOTIVATION; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SURVEYS;

THERMAL COMFORT;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; INDOOR AIR; LEARNING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84880729577     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2013.06.012     Document Type: Article

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