Thermal effects on human performance in office environment measured by integrating task speed and accuracy

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 490-495

  Lan, Li ^a,b   Wargocki, Pawel ^b   Lian, Zhiwei ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Human performance; Speed

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; OFFICE ENVIRONMENTS; PERFORMANCE TASKS; SUBJECTIVE EXPERIMENTS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THERMAL CONDITION; THERMAL ENVIRONMENT;

ERGONOMICS; PHYSICAL THERAPY; SPEED;

ERRORS;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HEAT TOLERANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB PERFORMANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OFFICE WORKER; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THERMAL EXPOSURE; VELOCITY; WARMING; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ACCURACY; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; SPEED;

EFFICIENCY; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; WORKPLACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892858637     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: 18729126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2013.06.010     Document Type: Article

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