Indoor environmental quality has been found to impact employees' productivity in the long run, yet it is unclear its meeting-level impact in the short term. We studied the relationship between sensorial pleasantness of a meeting's room and the meeting's productivity. By administering a 28-item questionnaire to 363 online participants, we indeed found that three factors captured 62% of people's experience of meetings: (a) productivity; (b) psychological safety; and (c) room pleasantness. To measure room pleasantness, we developed and deployed ComFeel, an indoor environmental sensing infrastructure, which captures light, temperature, and gas resistance readings through miniaturized and unobtrusive devices we built and named 'Geckos'. Across 29 real-world meetings, using ComFeel, we collected 1373 minutes of readings. For each of these meetings, we also collected whether each participant felt the meeting to have been productive, the setting to be psychologically safe, and the meeting room to be pleasant. As one expects, we found that, on average, the probability of a meeting being productive increased by 35% for each standard deviation increase in the psychological safety participants experienced. Importantly, that probability increased by as much as 25% for each increase in room pleasantness, confirming the significant short-term impact of the indoor environment on meetings' productivity.

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ComFeel：生产力也是感官的问题

从长远来看，室内环境质量会影响员工的生产力，但短期内对会议层面的影响尚不清楚。我们研究了会议室的感官愉悦与会议效率之间的关系。通过对 363 名在线参与者进行 28 项问卷调查，我们确实发现三个因素影响了人们 62% 的会议体验：(a) 生产力；(b) 心理安全；(c) 房间舒适度。为了测量房间的舒适度，我们开发并部署了 ComFeel，这是一种室内环境传感基础设施，它通过我们构建并命名为“Geckos”的小型化和不显眼的设备来捕获光、温度和气体电阻读数。在 29 次实际会议中，我们使用 ComFeel 收集了 1373 分钟的阅读资料。对于每一次会议，我们还收集了每位参与者是否认为会议富有成效、心理环境是否安全以及会议室是否令人愉悦。正如人们所预期的那样，我们发现，参与者所经历的心理安全感每增加一个标准差，平均而言，会议富有成效的可能性就会增加 35%。重要的是，房间舒适度每增加一次，这种可能性就会增加多达 25%，这证实了室内环境对会议效率的重大短期影响。参与者所经历的心理安全感每增加一个标准差，会议富有成效的可能性就会增加 35%。重要的是，房间舒适度每增加一次，这种可能性就会增加多达 25%，这证实了室内环境对会议效率的重大短期影响。参与者所经历的心理安全感每增加一个标准差，会议富有成效的可能性就会增加 35%。重要的是，房间舒适度每增加一次，这种可能性就会增加多达 25%，这证实了室内环境对会议效率的重大短期影响。