A Pilot Study Investigating the Impact of Indoor Wall Construction on Performance during Long Monotonous Work. (September 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Takai, Yuka; Goto, Akihiko; Takao, Ken-ichi; Kuwahara, Noriaki; Hamada, Hiroyuki
• Is Part Of: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society ... Annual Meeting. Volume 57:Part 1(2013)
• Page Start: 516
• Page End: 520
• Publication Date: 2013-09
• Subjects: Long monotonous work -- Indoor environment -- Clay wall -- Bamboo charcoal -- EGG -- Fatigue; Human engineering -- Congresses; 620.8205
• DOI: 10.1177/1541931213571111
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1541-9312

Abstract

Generating of a mistake and the decline in working efficiency in monotonous work are what is depended on the fall of the concentration, corporal or mental fatigue. Importance is attached to the indoor environment in monotonous work. There is history which has used the natural material (for example clay, grass, bamboo charcoal) for interior materials in Japan. Moisture conditioning properties and absorption properties of an indoor pollutant substance of natural material for interior materials may have a certain influence on monotonous work. Therefore, purpose of in this study is to clarify the influence which an interior material has on working efficiency and fatigue under the long monotonous work with different interior material as wallpaper, clay wall, bamboo charcoal. Long monotonous work was segregation of the examination literature. The motion of segregation work was recorded by video camera. The brain waves under work were measured. The fatigue survey questionnaires before and after work were performed.