A monitor will only benefit you if you act on its readings by a) buying a purifier, b) avoiding areas with pollution. If you install the monitor at home you don’t really have the option to avoid it so a) is the only viable path to impact I see.
Eh it’s gonna depend on the particulars of each living situation but I think there are a bunch of dials/levers the monitor can cause you to adjust:
Usual/common
Central air (is that the right term?):
temperature
speed (including off/on)
which vents are open
Windows
Doors open/closed/cracked
Fans (potentially even a cheap USB-powered one)
speed
direction
Air purifier (+quantity/price/quality/speed/noise)
(De)humidifier (idk if these have an affect on air quality but plausible)
Which room you work in (ik not everyone has this or other choices on the list)
Plants (I think the effect size is usually too small but not certain)
Potentially also:
Moving (residences/cities)
When you work/move/go elsewhere
e.g., going to the library if C02 hits 1000 ppm when roommate is having friends over
Wearing a mask (at least potentially idk)
Which cleaning/scent products you buy and use
Which appliances you buy (like electric vs gas stove)
More important than “tweak each dial 2%” though, is that I think during some small but non-trivial proportion of user-hours (5-10%?), the user would discover that their working environment is bad enough to warrant a more dramatic change than “crack a window and turn on a fan,” which they wouldn’t make without direct immediate feedback from a monitor. I’m not certain though of course, and certainly could be wrong about this!
Eh it’s gonna depend on the particulars of each living situation but I think there are a bunch of dials/levers the monitor can cause you to adjust:
Usual/common
Central air (is that the right term?):
temperature
speed (including off/on)
which vents are open
Windows
Doors open/closed/cracked
Fans (potentially even a cheap USB-powered one)
speed
direction
Air purifier (+quantity/price/quality/speed/noise)
(De)humidifier (idk if these have an affect on air quality but plausible)
Which room you work in (ik not everyone has this or other choices on the list)
Plants (I think the effect size is usually too small but not certain)
Potentially also:
Moving (residences/cities)
When you work/move/go elsewhere
e.g., going to the library if C02 hits 1000 ppm when roommate is having friends over
Wearing a mask (at least potentially idk)
Which cleaning/scent products you buy and use
Which appliances you buy (like electric vs gas stove)
More important than “tweak each dial 2%” though, is that I think during some small but non-trivial proportion of user-hours (5-10%?), the user would discover that their working environment is bad enough to warrant a more dramatic change than “crack a window and turn on a fan,” which they wouldn’t make without direct immediate feedback from a monitor. I’m not certain though of course, and certainly could be wrong about this!