Simultaneous effects of irrelevant speech, temperature and ventilation rate on performance and satisfaction in open-plan offices

Johanna Varjo · Valtteri O. Hongisto · Annu Haapakangas · Henna Maula · Hannu Koskela · Jukka Hyönä

90 citations0/0 files storedJournal of Environmental Psychology

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Facilities and Workplace Management Building Energy and Comfort Optimization Noise Effects and Management

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate how irrelevant speech, temperature and ventilation rate together affect cognitive performance and environmental satisfaction in open-plan offices. In Condition A, neutral temperature (23.5 °C), low intelligibility of speech (high absorption and low masking sound level) and high fresh air supply rate (30 l/s per person) were applied. This was contrasted to Condition B with high room temperature (29.5 °C), highly intelligible speech (low absorption and high masking sound level) and a negligible fresh air supply rate (2 l/s per person). Sixty-five participants were tested. In Condition B, performance decrement was observed especially in working memory tasks. Based on subjective assessments, mental workload, cognitive fatigue and symptoms were higher and environmental satisfaction was lower in Condition B. It was concluded that special attention should be paid to the design of whole indoor environment in open-plan offices to increase subjective comfort and improve performance.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 90 citations exist upstream.

References

1988Development of NASA-TLX (Task Load Index): Results of Empirical and Theoretical Research 1989Is working memory capacity task dependent?2003Neural mechanisms of general fluid intelligence 2011Quantitative relationships between occupant satisfaction and satisfaction aspects of indoor environmental quality and building design 2004The effect of office concepts on worker health and performance: a systematic review of the literature 2007A model of satisfaction with open-plan office conditions: COPE field findings 2009Effects of acoustic environment on work in private office rooms and open-plan offices – longitudinal study during relocation 2006Indoor climate, psychosocial work environment and symptoms in open-plan offices

Cited by

2020The impacts of building characteristics, social psychological and cultural factors on indoor environment quality productivity belief

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.