REMOTE PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT (RPM)-A NEW, INTERNET-BASED METHOD FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF OCCUPANT PERFORMANCE IN OFFICE BUILDINGS

摘要

A new software tool for measuring the performance of typical office tasks over the Intemet (RPM =Remote Performance Measurement) was developed and tested in a crossover temperature intervention study in an office building. It provides easy collection and automatic scoring of the kind of data that it is otherwise both expensive and very difficult to obtain in practice. A significant negative effect of raising the room temperature set-point by 4°C (from 20-22°C to 24-26°C) on the performance of an addition task was found. When a calculator was used to perform the task, no effect of temperature was found, i.e. raised temperature affected the cognitive task of performing mental arithmetic, not the trivial task of entering numbers on keyboards. Performance ora text-typing task was similarly unaffected. RPM offers a means of field-validating indoor environmental effects on performance that are predicted from experiments in simulated office environments or climate chambers.