The effect of indoor plants on human comfort

Indoor and Built Environment

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 709-723

  Qin, Jun ^a,b   Sun, Chanjuan ^c   Zhou, Xin ^c   Leng, Hanbing ^b,d   Lian, Zhiwei ^c  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shanghai Botanical Garden   (China)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Sustainable Plant Innovation   (China)

Author keywords

Comfort; EEG; Physiology measurement; Plants; Survey

Indexed keywords

OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; COLOR; COMFORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EUPHORBIA PULCHERRIMA; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMIDITY; INDOOR PLANT; LIFE SATISFACTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; ODOR; OXYGEN SATURATION; PELARGONIUM; PLANT; SANSEVIERIA; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; VELOCITY;

EID: 84907197995     PISSN: 1420326X     EISSN: 14230070     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1420326X13481372     Document Type: Article

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