VALIDATION OF A MULTISENSORY ENVIRONMENT SIMULATOR FOR EVALUATING COMFORT AND PERFORMANCE IN THE CLASSROOM

• Main Author: Margia Pramesty, Dhita
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/83667
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Comfort plays a crucial role in everyday life. When we feel comfortable, both physically and psychologically, daily activities can be carried out more smoothly and efficiently. Factors such as temperature, lighting, ventilation, and aural aspects can influence comfort and performance, especially in the classroom. The success of learning in the classroom is not only determined by the teaching material and methods but also by how well students can absorb, participate, and focus on the given learning material. This is closely related to the environmental conditions in the classroom based on several aspects. This study aims to validate a multisensory environmental simulator and investigate the interaction between aural, visual, and thermal aspects on comfort and performance in the classroom. The multisensory environmental simulator is designed by observing the physical variables of the classroom environment, then used to test the performance and perception of respondents. Using data directly taken from actual classroom conditions, this study creates 16 variations of classroom condition stimuli to be presented in the simulator. These stimuli variations encompass changes in thermal, visual, and aural aspects, providing respondents with the opportunity to experience classroom environmental conditions more diversely. Additionally, performance testing is conducted by assigning tasks to respondents in each different stimulus. Involving 20 respondents, the results of this study show that the thermal aspect has the greatest impact on classroom comfort with a correlation value of 0.577, followed by the aural aspect (0.564), and the visual aspect (0.252). This order is consistent with the data taken from the actual classroom. The comparison of CFA model results conducted in the simulator and the actual environment also shows no significant differences. Thus, it can be concluded that the multisensory environmental simulator can represent the same perception as students' perception in the actual classroom environment. Keywords: comfort, multisensory, performance, classroom, simulator, CFA