Neurobehavioral approach for evaluation of office workers' productivity : The effects of room temperature

摘要: Abstract Indoor environment quality has great influence on worker's productivity, and how to assess the effect of indoor productivity remains be major challenge. A neurobehavioral approach was proposed for evaluation office workers' in this paper. The distinguishing characteristic is its emphasis identification measurement behavioral changes, brain functions manifests behaviorally. Therefore can comprehensively evaluated by testing functions. Four functions, including perception, learning memory, thinking, executive were measured with nine representative psychometric tests. room temperature performance tests investigated laboratory. temperatures (19 °C, 24 °C, 27 °C, 32 °C) based thermal sensation from cold hot. Signal detection theory utilized analyze response bias. It found that motivated people could maintain high a short time under adverse (hot or cold) environmental conditions. Room affected task differentially, depending type tasks. worked quantitatively systematically evaluate productivity.