Indoor temperature - office work performance database

The objective of developing this database was to summarise all relevant
published studies that have linked the thermal environment to office work
performance within the most representative temperature range for office
buildings (20 °C to 30 °C). We conducted a comprehensive literature review
and collected the relevant published data into our database. A variety of
combinations of keywords including temperature, thermal sensation, work,
cognitive, and task performance, and office and commercial buildings, were
used. In total, we found thirty-five studies, in 29 peer-reviewed journal
publications and 571 measures of performance, met our inclusion criteria.
We normalised these measures using a method originally proposed by
Seppänen et al. (2006; 2006). This method uses the change in work
performance per 1 °C increment in temperature (λ%), which is measured in
percentage per degree Celsius (%/°C). Our database comprised a total of
358 data points for λ%. Furthermore, we developed a web-based interactive
tool with an easy-to-use interface to visualize the relationship
between temperature and office work performance. This tool can
automatically calculate the model’s equation and accuracy metrics via
different data subsets and regression models.