The effects of speech intelligibility on English scientific literature reading in Chinese open-plan offices

Lou, Huading; Ou, Dayi

doi:10.1121/10.0000497

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“…From a methodological perspective, a variety of scholarly work investigating the IEQ factors in relation to occupants' health, wellbeing and productivity are based on post occupation evaluation (POE) tools [19], such as BUS (Building Use Studies) Methodology [16,20], CBE (Centre for the Built Environmental) Berkeley Survey [21,22], Cost-Effective Open-Plan Environments (COPE) research [23], and BOSSA (Building Occupants Survey System Australia) [24]. Building on the IEQ related elements in these POE tools and findings from previous literature [8,11,25,26], this article focuses on the five IEQ aspects which affect the productivity of office workers, namely 1) thermal comfort [12,27,28], 2) indoor air quality [29,30], 3) lighting [31,32], 4) noise and acoustics [14,33,34], and 5) office layout [16,35].…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Indoor environmental factors affecting the productivity of workers in office buildings

Liu

Chang‐Richards

Wang

et al. 2022

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Poor indoor environmental quality (IEQ) has been found to contribute significantly to productivity losses, with the extent of the contribution differing according to the type of office work in which workers are engaged. However, few studies focus specifically on the occupants of university office buildings where the work being undertaken involves a significant amount of academic research that is expected to require high levels of concentration, insight, creativity, and consistency than is needed in many other types of work. To develop a preliminary understanding of the IEQ factors affecting the productivity of people working in university office buildings, a pilot questionnaire was administered to postgraduate students to validate the IEQ factors that have been found to impact on productivity. To date, twelve postgraduate students from three different office buildings in The University of Auckland completed the questionnaire. The results showed that noise, temperature, air quality, and lighting were the factors most reported on with respect to effects on work productivity. The adopted IEQ factors in this questionnaire instrument is reliable. The findings from this study will help advance understanding of the IEQ factors affecting the productivity of workers in university office buildings, and provide insights for architects, building owners, office managers, and office users to help prevent or mitigate negative impacts on productivity by managing the IEQ conditions in workplaces. Future research will involve the analysis of data from staff as well as students to identify any possible differences that might exist between the two groups of workers engaged in academic research.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Indoor environmental factors affecting the productivity of workers in office buildings

Liu

Chang‐Richards

Wang

et al. 2022

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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“…The findings reveal that Chinese workers engaged in English scientific literature reading tasks are more sensitive to changes in speech intelligibility and have higher requirements for the acoustic environment. 6 In another study, indoor comfort quality problems were evaluated and classified in different office layouts by survey analysis. Different office layouts including closed, closed shared, high compartment, low compartment, and open compartments, were assessed.…”

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The effect of layout placement on acoustic conditions in call centers: Evaluations within the scope of an example

Özdem Gürtürk,

Yüğrük Akdağ

2024

Building Acoustics

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This article aimed to provide auditory comfort conditions in call centers where the noise problem is very high and its use is increasing day by day. Since there are no partition walls in such places, noises from conversations, telephones and other office equipment, footsteps, air conditioning and lighting, office equipment (fax machines, printers, etc.), and noise from outside can reduce working efficiency and sometimes cause serious health problems. To assess this situation, the current noise levels situation in a call center were revealed with the help of observation, survey, measurement, and simulation. The number of personnel in the volume, different layout models, surface absorption, and obstacle heights were analyzed through the simulation program and appropriate call center models were obtained in terms of acoustic comfort. By taking the models as a reference, noise level maps have been prepared according to different frequency spectrums. When the noise maps are evaluated, while the call center noise level is 60 dBA in the current situation, it has decreased to 45–53 dBA noise levels as a result of the settlement proposal where the employees are facing in opposite directions in pairs. There has been a reduction in noise level of approximately 16%. As a result of the study, the measures to be taken to improve the auditory environment were determined within the scope of architectural and acoustic design, and results were obtained to guide the designers.

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“…When translating English and American literary allusions, if they do not penetrate the text, they will not achieve their effectiveness or even fail to express the enhanced effect of allusions on literary color. The translation process, which should be combined with the totality of the moral of the text, should search for the correct efficacy of allusions and analyze them in an integrated manner to achieve a perfect interpretation of English and American literary allusions in the text [28]- [29].…”

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English-Chinese translation strategies based on BERT and multi-similarity fusion of English and American literature

2023

Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences

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Under the background of big data development, more intelligent technologies make work and life convenient, and the traditional English-US literature translation methods and means are difficult to adapt to the fast-paced era of big data, so this paper conducts research and analysis on this problem. In terms of the English-Chinese translation strategy based on BERT and multi-similarity fusion of English and American literature, the article first introduces the concept and principle of BERT, and multi-similarity fusion algorithm then constructs the model of BERT and multi-similarity algorithm fusion, analyzes and discusses the English and American literature translation dataset respectively, and compares it with three different similarity algorithms in terms of three indicators. The data shows that BERT has the greatest effect on the accuracy rate, followed by BLEU value and Manhattan distance. Compared with the fusion of the three methods, the data analysis of a single method is better, and the three selected index values all remain above 90%, and this study is conducive to improving the accuracy and efficiency of English and American literature work, which is of great historical significance for international literary communication.

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The effects of speech intelligibility on English scientific literature reading in Chinese open-plan offices

Cited by 19 publications

References 19 publications

Indoor environmental factors affecting the productivity of workers in office buildings

Indoor environmental factors affecting the productivity of workers in office buildings

The effect of layout placement on acoustic conditions in call centers: Evaluations within the scope of an example

English-Chinese translation strategies based on BERT and multi-similarity fusion of English and American literature

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