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Impact of Indoor Air Quality and Multi-domain Factors on Human Productivity and Physiological Responses: A Comprehensive Review

Table 1

Cognitive test method for evaluating human productivity in literature.

TestBrief descriptionDurationReference

Text typingMeasure of speed, accuracy, and fluency for typing a given textAround 5 min[6163]
Number calculation addition testA series of addition problems with two digits to more5-10 min[59, 61, 62, 64, 65]
Bourdon testMonitor gauge and respond whenever the needle reaches a specific target zone10-20 min[6668]
Schulte tablesIdentify a specific sequence of numbers or letters within the grid[6971]
NASA Task Load IndexEvaluation of workload across six dimensions: mental demand, physical demand, temporal demand, performance, effort, and frustrationAround 5 min[7275]
Psychomotor vigilance taskRespond as quickly as possible by pressing a button when see the stimulus such as number or light on screen3-5 min[7678]
Operation span taskSolve math equations or remember letter sequences while simultaneously performing a secondary task[7982]
N-backPresented with a sequence of stimuli and asked to indicate when the current stimulus matches the one presented N steps earlier[8387]
StroopIdentify the color of a written word while ignoring its semantic meaning[43, 61, 62, 73, 81, 86, 88, 89]
Deary-Liewald simple reactionPresented with a visual stimulus, and quickly respond to it by pressing a button[9093]
Walter Reed Performance Assessment Battery testIncluded simple reaction time, code substitution, continuous performance test, math processing, card rotations, match to sample[61, 64, 94, 95]
Proofreading taskReview document and correct errors in grammar, spelling, formatting of text[75, 9698]
Summary extractionRead and comprehend a passage and then provide a concise summary of its main points[53, 56]
Receipt classification taskCategorize receipts into different predefined groups or labels based on the information30 min[53, 56, 99, 100]
Continuous performance testPresented with a series of visual or auditory stimuli, and respond to specific target stimuli while ignoring non-target stimuli[55, 101]
Magnitude-parity testObserve the numbers and determine magnitude and parity (odd or even)[81, 89, 102]