Initial steps toward a metrological model for assessing well-being in office spaces

A model is being proposed to aid in an investigation of a method for measuring well-being in offices using a classical metrological approach tailored to the unique challenges of measuring human perceptions. In this case, the measurand is well-being in an office space as characterized by specific environmental parameters determined using a sensor setup that collects data about variables such as temperature, illuminance, and air quality. The decisive feature of the model is that the human is taken to be the measurement instrument whose evaluation of the conditions in the room provides the raw data for the analysis. The model will offer insights into challenges that face human-based measurements and possible ways of overcoming them, including identifying the numerous parameters that act on the respondents and attempting to quantify them. The aim is that the novel metrological model developed for this study will exhibit flexibility, allowing it to be applied to other non-traditional metrics.