Development of Survey Tools for Indoor Environmental Quality and Productivity

A computer program for both field survey and laboratory experiment was developed toevaluate performance of office works and to link the findings from experiments to the actualoffices. The program has three parts: namely, Voting Tool, Task Tool, and PerformanceEvaluation Tool. In this study, the Performance Evaluation Tool, which is consisted of twelvestandard tests, was examined. The abilities required for the office works in two companiesand one branch of the government office were collected to verify the applicability of thePerformance Evaluation Tool. Two subjective experiments were conducted to determine theabilities required to work on each of twelve tests and to examine the reliability as ameasurement tool for performance. From the results, there were some abilities required inoffices but not for the tests, and the need for further modification was addressed. Theperformances of the tests were positively correlated with that of multiplication task (r=0.86).