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The most important task to complete as the week started was choosing an experimental design. We talked to Spliid Monday, and chose the design in which the subjects will come both afternoons and evenings. We finalised our poster, and the website. It turned out that our email address [email protected] was not set up properly. We sent an email to Andreas, and he was kind enough to return to DTU and correct this, even though it was after his normal work hours.

Gregers was keen on going to Africa to watch the solar eclipse and do a safari. The easiest way to achieve that was winning the quiz held by Ingeniøren. Most of the questions could be answered by using the paper’s own website – but still we failed a few answers!

Other indoor climate experiments were being conducted these weeks by Love, Ole and Jana. They gave us their list of subjects, and we sent emails to everyone on that list. Minutes later the first positive replies arrived, which was surprisingly fast. We made a few photocopies of our poster in various sizes; some 1500 in total. Everything was ready. We decided to keep the spontaneous answering machine message that Peter had recorded when we installed the machine.

Tuesday morning was spent putting up posters at DTU and the surrounding residences. There was a considerable interest. The weekend group was the most popular, probably since it paid the best.

We decided to communicate with the subjects using email only. It quickly turned out that we thus saved ourselves considerable amounts of time.

But still, adding prospective subjects to the database and handling the communication took a lot of time. We spent some days doing that necessary task, which unfortunately isn’t very productive project-wise. Time was running short. We had started the recruitment, but had only two and a half week until Christmas, at which time everything had to be finished. And a few lose ends still had to be sorted out.

One lucky side effect of the recruitment was the humorous answers to the questionnaires, and the like-wise answering machine messages. One favourite was Pxxxx Kxxxxxx, who had terrible sneeze attacks due to over-size dust particles and who had a troubled blinking-reflex. And his parents own a scale.

We had not heard from Arens & Huizenga at Berkeley for a while, so we wrote them a note, describing the latest changes to the set-up that we had added. They replied that they had build the geometry for the model, but still had not had time to do simulations.