Sitting/Standing/Walking Desks and Temperatures
Thermostat settings to set
Thermostat settings to set
Neuroscience indicates that our thoughts and behaviors are meaningfully affected by the properties of the air that we breathe. In this article, we’ll review how scents, ventilation, temperature, and humidity influence human lives.
Spence investigated how temperature is linked to the experience of other sensory stimuli.
Warmer is not better
Nakano and Tanabe studied reactions to air temperature in urban semi-outdoor environments, such as atria, terraces, and sidewalk eating areas.
Heat, cold, social ties
Kim and teammates studied worker comfort via data collected in a “typical” office building.
Design can affect how warm or cold we think a space is and neuroscience research indicates that those temperatures, actual or assumed, have a significant effect on our wellbeing, for example. How temperature influences human experience has been extensively studied.
Combatting loneliness with heat
Wind can effectively support ventilating room and regulating their temperature; gentle movement is an important aspect of biophilic design.