2019 Volume 21 Issue 2 Pages 235-244
In order to improve intellectual concentration, few studies have verified the effect of indoor airflow among the thermal environment conditions, and the differences in effects have not been studied based on the season. In this study, an experiment was conducted to investigate the influence of a room airflow in winter on intellectual concentration. As a result, no significant difference of intellectual concentration was found between a condition with airflows and a condition without airflows. The thermal sensation vote showed that the airflows caused the participants to feel colder and it is the same as the results of an experiment in summer, although the intellectual concentration was not improved in winter. In addition, covariance structure analysis was carried out to analyze the effects for intellectual concentration. The participants were classified into two groups. A group improved intellectual concentration by the airflows and another group did not improve it. The former group showed that the airflows caused the comfortable feeling of the room and the latter group showed the airflows caused the feeling of coldness. It was shown that different persons like different airflows from the results. One of our future challenges is to provide each person a controllable airflow.
