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Occupants’ satisfaction had been researched independently related to thermal and visual stimuli for many decades showing among others the influence of self‐perceived control. Few studies revealed interactions between thermal and visual stimuli affecting occupant satisfaction. In addition, studies including interactions between thermal and visual stimuli are lacking different control scenarios. This study focused on the effects of thermal and visual factors, their interaction, seasonal influences, and the degree of self‐perceived control on overall, thermal, and visual satisfaction. A repeated‐measures laboratory study with 61 participants running over two years and a total of 986 participant sessions was conducted. Mixed model analyses with overall satisfaction as outcome variable revealed that thermal satisfaction and visual satisfaction are the most important predictors for overall satisfaction with the indoor environment. Self‐perceived thermal control served as moderator between thermal satisfaction and overall satisfaction. Season had slight influence on overall satisfaction. Random effects explained the highest amount of variance, indicating that intra‐ and interindividual differences in the ratings of satisfaction are more prevalent than study condition. Future building design and operation plans aiming at a high level of occupant satisfaction should consider personal control opportunities and take into account the moderating effect of control opportunities in multimodal interactions.
Sabine Lechner; Cornelia Moosmann; Andreas Wagner; Marcel Schweiker. Does thermal control improve visual satisfaction? Interactions between occupants’ self‐perceived control, visual, thermal, and overall satisfaction. Indoor Air 2021, 1 .
AMA StyleSabine Lechner, Cornelia Moosmann, Andreas Wagner, Marcel Schweiker. Does thermal control improve visual satisfaction? Interactions between occupants’ self‐perceived control, visual, thermal, and overall satisfaction. Indoor Air. 2021; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSabine Lechner; Cornelia Moosmann; Andreas Wagner; Marcel Schweiker. 2021. "Does thermal control improve visual satisfaction? Interactions between occupants’ self‐perceived control, visual, thermal, and overall satisfaction." Indoor Air , no. : 1.
Buildings’ expected (projected, simulated) energy use frequently does not match actual observations. This is commonly referred to as the energy performance gap. As such, many factors can contribute to the disagreement between expectations and observations. These include, for instance, uncertainty about buildings’ geometry, construction, systems, and weather conditions. However, the role of occupants in the energy performance gap has recently attracted much attention. It has even been suggested that occupants are the main cause of the energy performance gap. This, in turn, has led to suggestions that better models of occupant behavior can reduce the energy performance gap. The present effort aims at the review and evaluation of the evidence for such claims. To this end, a systematic literature search was conducted and relevant publications were identified and reviewed in detail. The review entailed the categorization of the studies according to the scope and strength of the evidence for occupants’ role in the energy performance gap. Moreover, deployed calculation and monitoring methods, normalization procedures, and reported causes and magnitudes of the energy performance gap were documented and evaluated. The results suggest that the role of occupants as significant or exclusive contributors to the energy performance gap is not sufficiently substantiated by evidence.
Ardeshir Mahdavi; Christiane Berger; Hadeer Amin; Eleni Ampatzi; Rune Andersen; Elie Azar; Verena Barthelmes; Matteo Favero; Jakob Hahn; Dolaana Khovalyg; Henrik Knudsen; Alessandra Luna-Navarro; Astrid Roetzel; Fisayo Sangogboye; Marcel Schweiker; Mahnameh Taheri; Despoina Teli; Marianne Touchie; Silke Verbruggen. The Role of Occupants in Buildings’ Energy Performance Gap: Myth or Reality? Sustainability 2021, 13, 3146 .
AMA StyleArdeshir Mahdavi, Christiane Berger, Hadeer Amin, Eleni Ampatzi, Rune Andersen, Elie Azar, Verena Barthelmes, Matteo Favero, Jakob Hahn, Dolaana Khovalyg, Henrik Knudsen, Alessandra Luna-Navarro, Astrid Roetzel, Fisayo Sangogboye, Marcel Schweiker, Mahnameh Taheri, Despoina Teli, Marianne Touchie, Silke Verbruggen. The Role of Occupants in Buildings’ Energy Performance Gap: Myth or Reality? Sustainability. 2021; 13 (6):3146.
Chicago/Turabian StyleArdeshir Mahdavi; Christiane Berger; Hadeer Amin; Eleni Ampatzi; Rune Andersen; Elie Azar; Verena Barthelmes; Matteo Favero; Jakob Hahn; Dolaana Khovalyg; Henrik Knudsen; Alessandra Luna-Navarro; Astrid Roetzel; Fisayo Sangogboye; Marcel Schweiker; Mahnameh Taheri; Despoina Teli; Marianne Touchie; Silke Verbruggen. 2021. "The Role of Occupants in Buildings’ Energy Performance Gap: Myth or Reality?" Sustainability 13, no. 6: 3146.
Detailed numerical analyses of temperature and air velocity distributions are relevant to assess thermal comfort in a wide range of applications. Until now mainly simulations based on Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations (RANS) are used, whereby fluctuations as well as anisotropy of the turbulence are represented with insufficient precision. This paper applies a thermal large eddy lattice Boltzmann method (LES–LBM) as an efficient and accurate transient modeling of turbulence. The benchmark case Manikin Heat Loss for Thermal Comfort Evaluation is studied and the model of Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) is applied for estimating thermal sensation. The results for the air velocity, the temperature field and the PMV show a satisfactory agreement with both, the experiment and the results from RANS simulations. The accuracy and the model quality of the simulation are increased further by considering the buoyancy and an inlet seeding. This suggests a successful evaluation of the present model, whereby additional transient flow field data are provided. The obtained transient flow field data, however, motivates future work to study thermal comfort in the present manner. The investigation of the influence of fluctuations on thermal comfort as well as the application to more complex problems seem promising.
Marc Siodlaczek; Maximilian Gaedtke; Stephan Simonis; Marcel Schweiker; Naohiko Homma; Mathias J. Krause. Numerical evaluation of thermal comfort using a large eddy lattice Boltzmann method. Building and Environment 2021, 192, 107618 .
AMA StyleMarc Siodlaczek, Maximilian Gaedtke, Stephan Simonis, Marcel Schweiker, Naohiko Homma, Mathias J. Krause. Numerical evaluation of thermal comfort using a large eddy lattice Boltzmann method. Building and Environment. 2021; 192 ():107618.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMarc Siodlaczek; Maximilian Gaedtke; Stephan Simonis; Marcel Schweiker; Naohiko Homma; Mathias J. Krause. 2021. "Numerical evaluation of thermal comfort using a large eddy lattice Boltzmann method." Building and Environment 192, no. : 107618.
A discussion of sustainability in architecture cannot be meaningfully carried out without the inclusion of most buildings’ central purpose, namely the provision of indoor environments that are accommodating of occupants’ needs and requirements. To this end, building designers and operators are expected to demonstrate compliance with codes and standards pertaining to indoor environmental quality (IEQ). However, the majority of conventional IEQ standards, codes, and guidelines have a single-domain character, in that they address IEQ in terms of a number of isolated domains (i.e., thermal, visual, acoustic, air quality). In this context, the present contribution explores the current state of multi-domain IEQ evaluation approaches and the necessary conditions for their further development and application. Toward this end, a number of common building rating schemes were selected and analyzed in detail. The results of this assessment imply the necessity of both short-term improvements of the existing schemes in terms of the transparency and plausibility of the applied point allocation and weighting strategies and the fundamental need for a deeper empirically grounded understanding of the nature of occupants’ perception of and behavior in the built environments.
Ardeshir Mahdavi; Christiane Berger; Veselina Bochukova; Leonidas Bourikas; Runa Hellwig; Quan Jin; Anna Pisello; Marcel Schweiker. Necessary Conditions for Multi-Domain Indoor Environmental Quality Standards. Sustainability 2020, 12, 8439 .
AMA StyleArdeshir Mahdavi, Christiane Berger, Veselina Bochukova, Leonidas Bourikas, Runa Hellwig, Quan Jin, Anna Pisello, Marcel Schweiker. Necessary Conditions for Multi-Domain Indoor Environmental Quality Standards. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (20):8439.
Chicago/Turabian StyleArdeshir Mahdavi; Christiane Berger; Veselina Bochukova; Leonidas Bourikas; Runa Hellwig; Quan Jin; Anna Pisello; Marcel Schweiker. 2020. "Necessary Conditions for Multi-Domain Indoor Environmental Quality Standards." Sustainability 12, no. 20: 8439.
Occupant behavior has a significant impact on building systems’ operations and efficiency. As a result, several innovative approaches have been introduced to quantify the dynamics of occupants within indoor environments, such as interactions with different building systems and the impact of various feedback and interventions to reduce the building energy consumption. To achieve this, researchers have highlighted the importance of reducing energy consumption without impacting occupant comfort. As a result, there is an increasing body of research evaluating how different theories of behavior across a variety of disciplines can explain occupant interactions with building systems. Future progress in this area calls for an in-depth understanding of behavioral theories in explaining occupant interactions with different building systems. In this paper, we have used a structured literature review approach to investigate how different psychological, sociological, and economic theories have been applied to explain occupant interactions with heating and cooling (HVAC systems), opening windows and ventilation, lighting and shading, electronic appliances, domestic hot water, as well as energy conservation behaviors. Throughout the paper, we identify the most common theories and methodologies applied within the existing research, general findings related to how occupants interact with different building systems, as well as a number of identified gaps within the literature. Finally, we provide a discussion on directions for future research studies in this area under each building system.
Arsalan Heydarian; Claire McIlvennie; Laura Arpan; Siavash Yousefi; Marc Syndicus; Marcel Schweiker; Farrokh Jazizadeh; Romina Rissetto; Anna Laura Pisello; Cristina Piselli; Christiane Berger; Zhuxuan Yan; Ardeshir Mahdavi. What drives our behaviors in buildings? A review on occupant interactions with building systems from the lens of behavioral theories. Building and Environment 2020, 179, 106928 .
AMA StyleArsalan Heydarian, Claire McIlvennie, Laura Arpan, Siavash Yousefi, Marc Syndicus, Marcel Schweiker, Farrokh Jazizadeh, Romina Rissetto, Anna Laura Pisello, Cristina Piselli, Christiane Berger, Zhuxuan Yan, Ardeshir Mahdavi. What drives our behaviors in buildings? A review on occupant interactions with building systems from the lens of behavioral theories. Building and Environment. 2020; 179 ():106928.
Chicago/Turabian StyleArsalan Heydarian; Claire McIlvennie; Laura Arpan; Siavash Yousefi; Marc Syndicus; Marcel Schweiker; Farrokh Jazizadeh; Romina Rissetto; Anna Laura Pisello; Cristina Piselli; Christiane Berger; Zhuxuan Yan; Ardeshir Mahdavi. 2020. "What drives our behaviors in buildings? A review on occupant interactions with building systems from the lens of behavioral theories." Building and Environment 179, no. : 106928.
Despite the fact that buildings are designed for occupants in principle, evidence suggests buildings are often uncomfortable compared to the requirements of standards; difficult to control by occupants; and, operated inefficiently with regards to occupants’ preferences and presence. Meanwhile, practitioners –architects, engineers, technology companies, building managers and operators, and policymakers – lack the knowledge, tools, and precedent to design and operate buildings optimally considering the complex and diverse nature of occupants. Building on the success of IEA EBC Annex 66 (“Definition and simulation of occupant behavior in buildings”; 2013–2017), a follow-up IEA EBC Annex 79 (“Occupant-centric building design and operation”; 2018–2023) has been developed to address gaps in knowledge, practice, and technology. Annex 79 involves international researchers from diverse disciplines like engineering, architecture, computer science, psychology, and sociology. Annex 79 and this review paper have four main areas of focus: (1) multi-domain environmental exposure, building interfaces, and human behavior; (2) data-driven occupant modeling strategies and digital tools; (3) occupant-centric building design; and (4) occupant-centric building operation. The objective of this paper is to succinctly report on the leading research of the above topics and articulate the most pressing research needs – planned to be addressed by Annex 79 and beyond.
William O'Brien; Andreas Wagner; Marcel Schweiker; Ardeshir Mahdavi; Julia Day; Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard; Salvatore Carlucci; Bing Dong; Farhang Tahmasebi; Da Yan; Tianzhen Hong; H. Burak Gunay; Zoltan Nagy; Clayton Miller; Christiane Berger. Introducing IEA EBC annex 79: Key challenges and opportunities in the field of occupant-centric building design and operation. Building and Environment 2020, 178, 106738 .
AMA StyleWilliam O'Brien, Andreas Wagner, Marcel Schweiker, Ardeshir Mahdavi, Julia Day, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Salvatore Carlucci, Bing Dong, Farhang Tahmasebi, Da Yan, Tianzhen Hong, H. Burak Gunay, Zoltan Nagy, Clayton Miller, Christiane Berger. Introducing IEA EBC annex 79: Key challenges and opportunities in the field of occupant-centric building design and operation. Building and Environment. 2020; 178 ():106738.
Chicago/Turabian StyleWilliam O'Brien; Andreas Wagner; Marcel Schweiker; Ardeshir Mahdavi; Julia Day; Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard; Salvatore Carlucci; Bing Dong; Farhang Tahmasebi; Da Yan; Tianzhen Hong; H. Burak Gunay; Zoltan Nagy; Clayton Miller; Christiane Berger. 2020. "Introducing IEA EBC annex 79: Key challenges and opportunities in the field of occupant-centric building design and operation." Building and Environment 178, no. : 106738.
In recent years, research has emerged to quantitatively and qualitatively understand occupants' interactions with buildings. However, there has been surprisingly little research on building interfaces and how their design, context (e.g., location), and underlying logic impact their usability and occupants’ perceived control, as well as the resulting comfort and energy performance. Research is needed to better understand how occupants interact with building interfaces in both commercial and residential applications; both applications are important to address as there are many differences in interface types, level of control and understanding, and even expectations of engagement. This paper provides a cursory review and discussion of select common building interfaces: windows, window shades/blinds, thermostats, and lighting controls. The goal of this paper is to review literature related to these human-building interfaces to explore interface characteristics, current design and use challenges, and relationships between building interfaces and occupants. Human-building interface interactions are complex, more research is needed to understand design, use, and characteristics. Common themes emerged throughout the literature review to explain occupant interactions (or lack of interactions) with building interfaces, which included thermal and visual comfort, ease and access of control, interface/control placement, poor interface/control design, lack of understanding, and social-behavioral dynamics.
Julia K. Day; Claire McIlvennie; Connor Brackley; Mariantonietta Tarantini; Cristina Piselli; Jakob Hahn; William O'Brien; Vinu Subashini Rajus; Marilena De Simone; Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard; Marco Pritoni; Arno Schlüter; Yuzhen Peng; Marcel Schweiker; Gianmarco Fajilla; Cristina Becchio; Valentina Fabi; Giorgia Spigliantini; Ghadeer Derbas; Anna Laura Pisello. A review of select human-building interfaces and their relationship to human behavior, energy use and occupant comfort. Building and Environment 2020, 178, 106920 .
AMA StyleJulia K. Day, Claire McIlvennie, Connor Brackley, Mariantonietta Tarantini, Cristina Piselli, Jakob Hahn, William O'Brien, Vinu Subashini Rajus, Marilena De Simone, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Marco Pritoni, Arno Schlüter, Yuzhen Peng, Marcel Schweiker, Gianmarco Fajilla, Cristina Becchio, Valentina Fabi, Giorgia Spigliantini, Ghadeer Derbas, Anna Laura Pisello. A review of select human-building interfaces and their relationship to human behavior, energy use and occupant comfort. Building and Environment. 2020; 178 ():106920.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJulia K. Day; Claire McIlvennie; Connor Brackley; Mariantonietta Tarantini; Cristina Piselli; Jakob Hahn; William O'Brien; Vinu Subashini Rajus; Marilena De Simone; Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard; Marco Pritoni; Arno Schlüter; Yuzhen Peng; Marcel Schweiker; Gianmarco Fajilla; Cristina Becchio; Valentina Fabi; Giorgia Spigliantini; Ghadeer Derbas; Anna Laura Pisello. 2020. "A review of select human-building interfaces and their relationship to human behavior, energy use and occupant comfort." Building and Environment 178, no. : 106920.
Building occupants are continuously exposed to multiple indoor environmental stimuli, including thermal, visual, acoustic, and air quality related factors. Moreover, personal and contextual aspects can be regarded as additional domains influencing occupants' perception and behaviour. The scientific literature in this area typically deals with these multiple stimuli in isolation. In contrast to single-domain research, multi-domain research analyses at least two different domains, for example, visual and thermal. The relatively few literature reviews that have considered multi-domain approaches to indoor-environmental perception and behaviour covered only a few dozen articles each. The present contribution addresses this paucity by reviewing 219 scientific papers on interactions and cross-domain effects that influence occupants’ indoor environmental perception and behaviour. The objective of the present review is to highlight motivational backgrounds, key methodologies, and major findings of multi-domain investigations of human perception and behaviour in indoor environments. The in-depth review of these papers provides not only an overview of the state of the art, but also contributes to the identification of existing knowledge gaps in this area and the corresponding need for future research. In particular, many studies use “convenience” variables and samples, there is often a lack of theoretical foundation to studies, and there is little research linking perception to action.
Marcel Schweiker; Eleni Ampatzi; Maedot S. Andargie; Rune Korsholm Andersen; Elie Azar; Verena M. Barthelmes; Christiane Berger; Leonidas Bourikas; Salvatore Carlucci; Giorgia Chinazzo; Lakshmi Prabha Edappilly; Matteo Favero; Stephanie Gauthier; Anja Jamrozik; Michael Kane; Ardeshir Mahdavi; Cristina Piselli; Anna Laura Pisello; Astrid Roetzel; Adam Rysanek; Kunind Sharma; Shengbo Zhang. Review of multi‐domain approaches to indoor environmental perception and behaviour. Building and Environment 2020, 176, 106804 .
AMA StyleMarcel Schweiker, Eleni Ampatzi, Maedot S. Andargie, Rune Korsholm Andersen, Elie Azar, Verena M. Barthelmes, Christiane Berger, Leonidas Bourikas, Salvatore Carlucci, Giorgia Chinazzo, Lakshmi Prabha Edappilly, Matteo Favero, Stephanie Gauthier, Anja Jamrozik, Michael Kane, Ardeshir Mahdavi, Cristina Piselli, Anna Laura Pisello, Astrid Roetzel, Adam Rysanek, Kunind Sharma, Shengbo Zhang. Review of multi‐domain approaches to indoor environmental perception and behaviour. Building and Environment. 2020; 176 ():106804.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMarcel Schweiker; Eleni Ampatzi; Maedot S. Andargie; Rune Korsholm Andersen; Elie Azar; Verena M. Barthelmes; Christiane Berger; Leonidas Bourikas; Salvatore Carlucci; Giorgia Chinazzo; Lakshmi Prabha Edappilly; Matteo Favero; Stephanie Gauthier; Anja Jamrozik; Michael Kane; Ardeshir Mahdavi; Cristina Piselli; Anna Laura Pisello; Astrid Roetzel; Adam Rysanek; Kunind Sharma; Shengbo Zhang. 2020. "Review of multi‐domain approaches to indoor environmental perception and behaviour." Building and Environment 176, no. : 106804.
Literature on thermal comfort presents two concepts beyond a static view of perception: adaptation and alliesthesia. Both concepts are typically analyzed separately and consequences for optimal conditions when following one or the other concept are not compared. Predictions concerning preferred conditions in different seasons derived from these concepts are antithetic – while adaptation suggests warmer conditions in summer being closer to neutrality – often equated with comfort – alliesthesia suggests cooler conditions in summer leading to a higher level of pleasantness – also set synonymous with comfort. The objectives of this study were to compare both concepts and the resulting views on optimal thermal conditions experimentally. The experimental study consisted of a between-subject design with two groups of participants experiencing the same three thermal conditions (classified as cool, neutral, warm) each for 50 min in a balanced order in a field laboratory with windows to the outdoors in winter (N = 32) or in summer (N = 31). Participants evaluated their thermal perception on three dimensions: thermal sensation, thermal comfort, and thermal pleasantness at the end of each session. Indoor environmental parameters and subjects’ skin temperature were recorded. Statistical analyses with participants’ ratings as the dependent, and standard effective temperature, season and sex as independent variables showed that optimal thermal conditions varied significantly between seasons, sex, the dimension of thermal perception, and the applied statistical method. Based on the results, a new type of alliesthesia is proposed to explain such effects: seasonal alliesthesia. Adaptation and alliesthesia focus on different dimensions of thermal perception and lead to distinctive results concerning optimal thermal conditions. Future work in the area of thermal comfort needs to discuss, which dimension is appropriately considered in which context and the consequences drawn for design and operation of buildings.
Marcel Schweiker; Karin Schakib-Ekbatan; Xaver Fuchs; Susanne Becker. A seasonal approach to alliesthesia. Is there a conflict with thermal adaptation? Energy and Buildings 2020, 212, 109745 .
AMA StyleMarcel Schweiker, Karin Schakib-Ekbatan, Xaver Fuchs, Susanne Becker. A seasonal approach to alliesthesia. Is there a conflict with thermal adaptation? Energy and Buildings. 2020; 212 ():109745.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMarcel Schweiker; Karin Schakib-Ekbatan; Xaver Fuchs; Susanne Becker. 2020. "A seasonal approach to alliesthesia. Is there a conflict with thermal adaptation?" Energy and Buildings 212, no. : 109745.
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Marcel Schweiker; Amar Abdul-Zahra; Maíra André; Farah Al-Atrash; Hanan Al-Khatri; Rea Risky Alprianti; Hayder Alsaad; Rucha Amin; Eleni Ampatzi; Alpha Yacob Arsano; Montazami Azadeh; Elie Azar; Bannazadeh Bahareh; Amina Batagarawa; Susanne Becker; Carolina Buonocore; Bin Cao; Joon-Ho Choi; Chungyoon Chun; Hein Daanen; Siti Aisyah Damiati; Lyrian Daniel; Renata De Vecchi; Shivraj Dhaka; Samuel Domínguez-Amarillo; Edyta Dudkiewicz; Lakshmi Prabha Edappilly; Jesica Fernández-Agüera; Mireille Folkerts; Arjan Frijns; Gabriel Gaona; Vishal Garg; Stephanie Gauthier; Shahla Ghaffari Jabbari; Djamila Harimi; Runa T. Hellwig; Gesche M. Huebner; Quan Jin; Mina Jowkar; Renate Kania; Jungsoo Kim; Nelson King; Boris Kingma; M. Donny Koerniawan; Jakub Kolarik; Shailendra Kumar; Alison Kwok; Roberto Lamberts; Marta Laska; M. C. Jeffrey Lee; Yoonhee Lee; Vanessa Lindermayr; MohammadBagher Mahaki; Udochukwu Marcel-Okafor; Laura Marín-Restrepo; Anna Marquardsen; Francesco Martellotta; Jyotirmay Mathur; Gráinne McGill; Isabel Mino-Rodriguez; Di Mou; Bassam Moujalled; Mia Nakajima; Edward Y Y Ng; Marcellinus Okafor; Mark Olweny; Wanlu Ouyang; Ana Ligia Papst De Abreu; Alexis Pérez-Fargallo; Indrika Rajapaksha; Greici Ramos; Saif Rashid; Christoph F. Reinhart; Ma. Isabel Rivera; Mazyar Salmanzadeh; Karin Schakib-Ekbatan; Stefano Schiavon; Salman Shooshtarian; Masanori Shukuya; Veronica Soebarto; Suhendri; Mohammad Tahsildoost; Federico Tartarini; Despoina Teli; Priyam Tewari; Samar Thapa; Maureen Trebilcock; Jörg Trojan; Ruqayyatu B. Tukur; Conrad Voelker; Yeung Yam; Liu Yang; Gabriela Zapata-Lancaster; Yongchao Zhai; Yingxin Zhu; Zahra Sadat Zomorodian. Publisher Correction: The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales. Scientific Data 2020, 7, 1 -1.
AMA StyleMarcel Schweiker, Amar Abdul-Zahra, Maíra André, Farah Al-Atrash, Hanan Al-Khatri, Rea Risky Alprianti, Hayder Alsaad, Rucha Amin, Eleni Ampatzi, Alpha Yacob Arsano, Montazami Azadeh, Elie Azar, Bannazadeh Bahareh, Amina Batagarawa, Susanne Becker, Carolina Buonocore, Bin Cao, Joon-Ho Choi, Chungyoon Chun, Hein Daanen, Siti Aisyah Damiati, Lyrian Daniel, Renata De Vecchi, Shivraj Dhaka, Samuel Domínguez-Amarillo, Edyta Dudkiewicz, Lakshmi Prabha Edappilly, Jesica Fernández-Agüera, Mireille Folkerts, Arjan Frijns, Gabriel Gaona, Vishal Garg, Stephanie Gauthier, Shahla Ghaffari Jabbari, Djamila Harimi, Runa T. Hellwig, Gesche M. Huebner, Quan Jin, Mina Jowkar, Renate Kania, Jungsoo Kim, Nelson King, Boris Kingma, M. Donny Koerniawan, Jakub Kolarik, Shailendra Kumar, Alison Kwok, Roberto Lamberts, Marta Laska, M. C. Jeffrey Lee, Yoonhee Lee, Vanessa Lindermayr, MohammadBagher Mahaki, Udochukwu Marcel-Okafor, Laura Marín-Restrepo, Anna Marquardsen, Francesco Martellotta, Jyotirmay Mathur, Gráinne McGill, Isabel Mino-Rodriguez, Di Mou, Bassam Moujalled, Mia Nakajima, Edward Y Y Ng, Marcellinus Okafor, Mark Olweny, Wanlu Ouyang, Ana Ligia Papst De Abreu, Alexis Pérez-Fargallo, Indrika Rajapaksha, Greici Ramos, Saif Rashid, Christoph F. Reinhart, Ma. Isabel Rivera, Mazyar Salmanzadeh, Karin Schakib-Ekbatan, Stefano Schiavon, Salman Shooshtarian, Masanori Shukuya, Veronica Soebarto, Suhendri, Mohammad Tahsildoost, Federico Tartarini, Despoina Teli, Priyam Tewari, Samar Thapa, Maureen Trebilcock, Jörg Trojan, Ruqayyatu B. Tukur, Conrad Voelker, Yeung Yam, Liu Yang, Gabriela Zapata-Lancaster, Yongchao Zhai, Yingxin Zhu, Zahra Sadat Zomorodian. Publisher Correction: The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales. Scientific Data. 2020; 7 (1):1-1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMarcel Schweiker; Amar Abdul-Zahra; Maíra André; Farah Al-Atrash; Hanan Al-Khatri; Rea Risky Alprianti; Hayder Alsaad; Rucha Amin; Eleni Ampatzi; Alpha Yacob Arsano; Montazami Azadeh; Elie Azar; Bannazadeh Bahareh; Amina Batagarawa; Susanne Becker; Carolina Buonocore; Bin Cao; Joon-Ho Choi; Chungyoon Chun; Hein Daanen; Siti Aisyah Damiati; Lyrian Daniel; Renata De Vecchi; Shivraj Dhaka; Samuel Domínguez-Amarillo; Edyta Dudkiewicz; Lakshmi Prabha Edappilly; Jesica Fernández-Agüera; Mireille Folkerts; Arjan Frijns; Gabriel Gaona; Vishal Garg; Stephanie Gauthier; Shahla Ghaffari Jabbari; Djamila Harimi; Runa T. Hellwig; Gesche M. Huebner; Quan Jin; Mina Jowkar; Renate Kania; Jungsoo Kim; Nelson King; Boris Kingma; M. Donny Koerniawan; Jakub Kolarik; Shailendra Kumar; Alison Kwok; Roberto Lamberts; Marta Laska; M. C. Jeffrey Lee; Yoonhee Lee; Vanessa Lindermayr; MohammadBagher Mahaki; Udochukwu Marcel-Okafor; Laura Marín-Restrepo; Anna Marquardsen; Francesco Martellotta; Jyotirmay Mathur; Gráinne McGill; Isabel Mino-Rodriguez; Di Mou; Bassam Moujalled; Mia Nakajima; Edward Y Y Ng; Marcellinus Okafor; Mark Olweny; Wanlu Ouyang; Ana Ligia Papst De Abreu; Alexis Pérez-Fargallo; Indrika Rajapaksha; Greici Ramos; Saif Rashid; Christoph F. Reinhart; Ma. Isabel Rivera; Mazyar Salmanzadeh; Karin Schakib-Ekbatan; Stefano Schiavon; Salman Shooshtarian; Masanori Shukuya; Veronica Soebarto; Suhendri; Mohammad Tahsildoost; Federico Tartarini; Despoina Teli; Priyam Tewari; Samar Thapa; Maureen Trebilcock; Jörg Trojan; Ruqayyatu B. Tukur; Conrad Voelker; Yeung Yam; Liu Yang; Gabriela Zapata-Lancaster; Yongchao Zhai; Yingxin Zhu; Zahra Sadat Zomorodian. 2020. "Publisher Correction: The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales." Scientific Data 7, no. 1: 1-1.
Thermal expectation is mentioned as one aspect of psychological adaptation to indoor thermal conditions. However, there is a lack of studies in the built environment assessing expectations directly and the relationship between expectations and thermal perception. Therefore, this paper studies potential influences on occupants’ expectations of indoor thermal conditions and the implications of their expectations on thermal perception. A combination of data from laboratory and field studies was analysed, where the same 47 participants participated in both of them. Subjects experienced different temperature conditions and were asked directly about the congruence between their thermal expectations and actual experience together with their actual thermal perception. The question regarding participants expectations applied in this study can be considered as the most straightforward way to ask for their expectations. The data was analysed by ordinal mixed effect regression analysis. Results show that there is a significant influence of the level of expectation on thermal sensation and comfort votes for the field and laboratory study. Indoor temperature, the day of experiment (first, second, or third) and the location (laboratory vs. field) show significant influences on thermal expectation. However, participants state their expectation of the indoor environment independent of the outdoor conditions or indoor-outdoor temperature difference. The discussion of implications of these results for adaptive approaches of room conditioning, which relay on the acceptance of higher fluctuations of indoor thermal conditions, suggests to carefully address expectations in future studies.
Marcel Schweiker; Romina Rissetto; Andreas Wagner. Thermal expectation: Influencing factors and its effect on thermal perception. Energy and Buildings 2019, 210, 109729 .
AMA StyleMarcel Schweiker, Romina Rissetto, Andreas Wagner. Thermal expectation: Influencing factors and its effect on thermal perception. Energy and Buildings. 2019; 210 ():109729.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMarcel Schweiker; Romina Rissetto; Andreas Wagner. 2019. "Thermal expectation: Influencing factors and its effect on thermal perception." Energy and Buildings 210, no. : 109729.
Background Pain ratings are almost ubiquitous in pain assessment, but their variability is high. Low correlations of continuous/numerical rating scales with categorical scales suggest that individuals associate different sensations with the same number on a scale, jeopardizing the interpretation of statistical results. We analyzed individual conceptions of rating scales and whether these conceptions can be utilized in the analysis of ratings of experimental stimuli in pain‐free healthy individuals and people with reoccurring/persistent pain. Methods Using a free positioning task, healthy participants (N = 57) and people with reoccurring/persistent pain (N = 57) ad libitum positioned pain descriptors on lines representing intensity and un‐/pleasantness scales. Further, participants rated experimental thermal stimuli on visual analogue scales with the same end anchors. A latent class regression approach was used to detect subgroups with different response patterns in the free positioning task, indicating different conceptions of pain labels, and tested whether these subgroups differed in their ratings of experimental stimuli. Results Subgroups representing different conceptions of pain labels could be described for the intensity and the un‐/pleasantness scale with in part opposing response patterns in the free positioning task. Response patterns did not differ between people with and without pain, but in people with pain subgroups showed differential ratings of high intensity experimental stimuli. Conclusions Individuals’ conceptions of pain labels differ. These conceptions can be quantified and utilized to improve the analysis of ratings of experimental stimuli. Identifying subgroups with different conceptions of pain descriptions could be used to improve predictions of responses to pain in clinical contexts.
Susanne Becker; Xaver Fuchs; Karin Schakib‐Ekbatan; Marcel Schweiker; K Schakib‐Ektaban. What does “moderate pain” mean? Subgroups holding different conceptions of rating scales evaluate experimental pain differently. European Journal of Pain 2019, 24, 625 -638.
AMA StyleSusanne Becker, Xaver Fuchs, Karin Schakib‐Ekbatan, Marcel Schweiker, K Schakib‐Ektaban. What does “moderate pain” mean? Subgroups holding different conceptions of rating scales evaluate experimental pain differently. European Journal of Pain. 2019; 24 (3):625-638.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSusanne Becker; Xaver Fuchs; Karin Schakib‐Ekbatan; Marcel Schweiker; K Schakib‐Ektaban. 2019. "What does “moderate pain” mean? Subgroups holding different conceptions of rating scales evaluate experimental pain differently." European Journal of Pain 24, no. 3: 625-638.
Marcel Schweiker; Michael Kleber; Andreas Wagner. Long-term monitoring data from a naturally ventilated office building. Scientific Data 2019, 6, 1 .
AMA StyleMarcel Schweiker, Michael Kleber, Andreas Wagner. Long-term monitoring data from a naturally ventilated office building. Scientific Data. 2019; 6 (1):1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMarcel Schweiker; Michael Kleber; Andreas Wagner. 2019. "Long-term monitoring data from a naturally ventilated office building." Scientific Data 6, no. 1: 1.
Thermal discomfort is one of the main triggers for occupants’ interactions with components of the built environment such as adjustments of thermostats and/or opening windows and strongly related to the energy use in buildings. Understanding causes for thermal (dis-)comfort is crucial for design and operation of any type of building. The assessment of human thermal perception through rating scales, for example in post-occupancy studies, has been applied for several decades; however, long-existing assumptions related to these rating scales had been questioned by several researchers. The aim of this study was to gain deeper knowledge on contextual influences on the interpretation of thermal perception scales and their verbal anchors by survey participants. A questionnaire was designed and consequently applied in 21 language versions. These surveys were conducted in 57 cities in 30 countries resulting in a dataset containing responses from 8225 participants. The database offers potential for further analysis in the areas of building design and operation, psycho-physical relationships between human perception and the built environment, and linguistic analyses.
Marcel Schweiker; Amar Abdul-Zahra; Maíra André; Farah Al-Atrash; Hanan Al-Khatri; Rea Risky Alprianti; Hayder Alsaad; Rucha Amin; Eleni Ampatzi; Alpha Yacob Arsano; Montazami Azadeh; Elie Azar; Bannazadeh Bahareh; Amina Batagarawa; Susanne Becker; Carolina Buonocore; Bin Cao; Joon-Ho Choi; Chungyoon Chun; Hein Daanen; Siti Aisyah Damiati; Lyrian Daniel; Renata De Vecchi; Shivraj Dhaka; Samuel Domínguez-Amarillo; Edyta Dudkiewicz; Lakshmi Prabha Edappilly; Jesica Fernández-Agüera; Mireille Folkerts; Arjan Frijns; Gabriel Gaona; Vishal Garg; Stephanie Gauthier; Shahla Ghaffari Jabbari; Djamila Harimi; Runa T. Hellwig; Gesche M. Huebner; Quan Jin; Mina Jowkar; Renate Kania; Jungsoo Kim; Nelson King; Boris Kingma; M. Donny Koerniawan; Jakub Kolarik; Shailendra Kumar; Alison Kwok; Roberto Lamberts; Marta Laska; M. C. Jeffrey Lee; Yoonhee Lee; Vanessa Lindermayr; MohammadBagher Mahaki; Udochukwu Marcel-Okafor; Laura Marín-Restrepo; Anna Marquardsen; Francesco Martellotta; Jyotirmay Mathur; Gráinne McGill; Isabel Mino-Rodriguez; Di Mou; Bassam Moujalled; Mia Nakajima; Edward Y Y Ng; Marcellinus Okafor; Mark Olweny; Wanlu Ouyang; Ana Ligia Papst De Abreu; Alexis Pérez-Fargallo; Indrika Rajapaksha; Greici Ramos; Saif Rashid; Christoph F. Reinhart; Ma. Isabel Rivera; Mazyar Salmanzadeh; Karin Schakib-Ekbatan; Stefano Schiavon; Salman Shooshtarian; Masanori Shukuya; Veronica Soebarto; Suhendri; Mohammad Tahsildoost; Federico Tartarini; Despoina Teli; Priyam Tewari; Samar Thapa; Maureen Trebilcock; Jörg Trojan; Ruqayyatu B. Tukur; Conrad Voelker; Yeung Yam; Liu Yang; Gabriela Zapata-Lancaster; Yongchao Zhai; Yingxin Zhu; Zahra Sadat Zomorodian. The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales. Scientific Data 2019, 6, 1 -10.
AMA StyleMarcel Schweiker, Amar Abdul-Zahra, Maíra André, Farah Al-Atrash, Hanan Al-Khatri, Rea Risky Alprianti, Hayder Alsaad, Rucha Amin, Eleni Ampatzi, Alpha Yacob Arsano, Montazami Azadeh, Elie Azar, Bannazadeh Bahareh, Amina Batagarawa, Susanne Becker, Carolina Buonocore, Bin Cao, Joon-Ho Choi, Chungyoon Chun, Hein Daanen, Siti Aisyah Damiati, Lyrian Daniel, Renata De Vecchi, Shivraj Dhaka, Samuel Domínguez-Amarillo, Edyta Dudkiewicz, Lakshmi Prabha Edappilly, Jesica Fernández-Agüera, Mireille Folkerts, Arjan Frijns, Gabriel Gaona, Vishal Garg, Stephanie Gauthier, Shahla Ghaffari Jabbari, Djamila Harimi, Runa T. Hellwig, Gesche M. Huebner, Quan Jin, Mina Jowkar, Renate Kania, Jungsoo Kim, Nelson King, Boris Kingma, M. Donny Koerniawan, Jakub Kolarik, Shailendra Kumar, Alison Kwok, Roberto Lamberts, Marta Laska, M. C. Jeffrey Lee, Yoonhee Lee, Vanessa Lindermayr, MohammadBagher Mahaki, Udochukwu Marcel-Okafor, Laura Marín-Restrepo, Anna Marquardsen, Francesco Martellotta, Jyotirmay Mathur, Gráinne McGill, Isabel Mino-Rodriguez, Di Mou, Bassam Moujalled, Mia Nakajima, Edward Y Y Ng, Marcellinus Okafor, Mark Olweny, Wanlu Ouyang, Ana Ligia Papst De Abreu, Alexis Pérez-Fargallo, Indrika Rajapaksha, Greici Ramos, Saif Rashid, Christoph F. Reinhart, Ma. Isabel Rivera, Mazyar Salmanzadeh, Karin Schakib-Ekbatan, Stefano Schiavon, Salman Shooshtarian, Masanori Shukuya, Veronica Soebarto, Suhendri, Mohammad Tahsildoost, Federico Tartarini, Despoina Teli, Priyam Tewari, Samar Thapa, Maureen Trebilcock, Jörg Trojan, Ruqayyatu B. Tukur, Conrad Voelker, Yeung Yam, Liu Yang, Gabriela Zapata-Lancaster, Yongchao Zhai, Yingxin Zhu, Zahra Sadat Zomorodian. The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales. Scientific Data. 2019; 6 (1):1-10.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMarcel Schweiker; Amar Abdul-Zahra; Maíra André; Farah Al-Atrash; Hanan Al-Khatri; Rea Risky Alprianti; Hayder Alsaad; Rucha Amin; Eleni Ampatzi; Alpha Yacob Arsano; Montazami Azadeh; Elie Azar; Bannazadeh Bahareh; Amina Batagarawa; Susanne Becker; Carolina Buonocore; Bin Cao; Joon-Ho Choi; Chungyoon Chun; Hein Daanen; Siti Aisyah Damiati; Lyrian Daniel; Renata De Vecchi; Shivraj Dhaka; Samuel Domínguez-Amarillo; Edyta Dudkiewicz; Lakshmi Prabha Edappilly; Jesica Fernández-Agüera; Mireille Folkerts; Arjan Frijns; Gabriel Gaona; Vishal Garg; Stephanie Gauthier; Shahla Ghaffari Jabbari; Djamila Harimi; Runa T. Hellwig; Gesche M. Huebner; Quan Jin; Mina Jowkar; Renate Kania; Jungsoo Kim; Nelson King; Boris Kingma; M. Donny Koerniawan; Jakub Kolarik; Shailendra Kumar; Alison Kwok; Roberto Lamberts; Marta Laska; M. C. Jeffrey Lee; Yoonhee Lee; Vanessa Lindermayr; MohammadBagher Mahaki; Udochukwu Marcel-Okafor; Laura Marín-Restrepo; Anna Marquardsen; Francesco Martellotta; Jyotirmay Mathur; Gráinne McGill; Isabel Mino-Rodriguez; Di Mou; Bassam Moujalled; Mia Nakajima; Edward Y Y Ng; Marcellinus Okafor; Mark Olweny; Wanlu Ouyang; Ana Ligia Papst De Abreu; Alexis Pérez-Fargallo; Indrika Rajapaksha; Greici Ramos; Saif Rashid; Christoph F. Reinhart; Ma. Isabel Rivera; Mazyar Salmanzadeh; Karin Schakib-Ekbatan; Stefano Schiavon; Salman Shooshtarian; Masanori Shukuya; Veronica Soebarto; Suhendri; Mohammad Tahsildoost; Federico Tartarini; Despoina Teli; Priyam Tewari; Samar Thapa; Maureen Trebilcock; Jörg Trojan; Ruqayyatu B. Tukur; Conrad Voelker; Yeung Yam; Liu Yang; Gabriela Zapata-Lancaster; Yongchao Zhai; Yingxin Zhu; Zahra Sadat Zomorodian. 2019. "The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales." Scientific Data 6, no. 1: 1-10.
As thermal perception is a subjective "condition of mind", a high variance in observed thermal sensation votes does not come to a surprise. Literature reviews show a large number of individual and contextual influences. However, the quantification of the effect of individual drivers on thermal perception as well as thermal adaptation and their integration into thermal comfort models is still an open field of research. Still, analyses of the energy balance of zero-energy buildings (ZEB) are using assumptions related to the user's needs e.g. in terms of thermal comfort. First, this paper explores a novel combination of a biophysical model and an adaptive framework (called the ATHB*TNZ approach) and discusses the applicability of such approach to model individual differences in thermal perception. Second, results of an implementation of these individualized comfort prediction on the energy balance of a zero energy building are presented together with the resulting discomfort hours. Results show that the consideration of physiological differences and adaptive processes in the modelling approach can replicate observed variations in thermal perception. The energy balance of a ZEB is hardly affected by set point adjustments due to individual requirements, but discomfort hours strongly depend on individual characteristics of occupants.
Marcel Schweiker. Modelling drivers of variance and adaptation for the prediction of thermal perception and energy use in zero energy buildings. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 2019, 609, 042039 .
AMA StyleMarcel Schweiker. Modelling drivers of variance and adaptation for the prediction of thermal perception and energy use in zero energy buildings. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. 2019; 609 (4):042039.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMarcel Schweiker. 2019. "Modelling drivers of variance and adaptation for the prediction of thermal perception and energy use in zero energy buildings." IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 609, no. 4: 042039.
Assessing building user needs and preferences is widespread and often questionnaire surveys are applied in order to assess environmental perception and satisfaction. A central question in this context is the quality of the questionnaires used, but little is known regarding their reliability. The present study addresses interdisciplinary aspects such as engineering and psychological sciences to answer the questions: Are the same item sets applicable in various settings (e.g., seasons)? Is there any difference in the reliability of item sets assessing user satisfaction in field vs. laboratory research? In the present study, reliability analyses of an item set regarding satisfaction with indoor climate including the ASHRAE thermal sensation scale (single-item) as well as the thermal preference question were conducted with respect to season, office type, age group, and sex. Field data were gathered via post occupancy evaluation from 46 office buildings in Germany. Additionally, comparable items from laboratory research were subjected to a reliability analysis. Results revealed predominantly good to excellent Cronbach's alpha values for the field studies. The values from the laboratory study were lower, although comparable (acceptable), partly due to the differences in variation in responses in field vs. laboratory settings. Results showed that questionnaires assessing user's satisfaction need to be set in relation with the given context for reliable interpretation. Further research could validate our results with larger samples for laboratory data. Interdisciplinary research is necessary in order to further develop methodological approaches in the field of user comfort research.
Karin Schakib-Ekbatan; Sabine Lechner; Marcel Schweiker. Reliability of an Item Set Assessing Indoor Climate in Offices—Results From Field Studies and Laboratory Research. Frontiers in Built Environment 2019, 5, 1 .
AMA StyleKarin Schakib-Ekbatan, Sabine Lechner, Marcel Schweiker. Reliability of an Item Set Assessing Indoor Climate in Offices—Results From Field Studies and Laboratory Research. Frontiers in Built Environment. 2019; 5 ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleKarin Schakib-Ekbatan; Sabine Lechner; Marcel Schweiker. 2019. "Reliability of an Item Set Assessing Indoor Climate in Offices—Results From Field Studies and Laboratory Research." Frontiers in Built Environment 5, no. : 1.
Today, about 30 per cent of European existing buildings can be entitled as “historical buildings”. Nowadays, their energy retrofit is important to reach the ambitious European CO2 emissions’ reduction objectives. The purpose of this paper is to outline a methodology to investigate the potential energy savings and the enhancement of historical buildings’ liveability by acting only on their operation, so that the building fabric could be maintained as much as possible as the original evidence. The paper describes the framework’s theoretical phases and their application in two real case studies. The methodology was conceived with a pre-test and post-test design approach. The research demonstrated that the elaborated methodology is flexible and allows the adoption of different energy retrofit strategies for the different cases. Limitations arise out of the circumstance that the methodology is based on occupants and technicians willingness to engage in the strategies, so it is not possible to quantify its efficacy ex ante. Practical implications can be found in the way of addressing energy retrofit strategies through a user-centric approach with minimum impact on the building itself. At the same time, the methodology has a strong social aspect with its potential to change people’s attitudes towards energy usage and behaviour. This study not only represents the first attempt of applying a systematic energy retrofit strategy based on occupants and technicians behavioural change in historic buildings, but also is one of the first studies dedicated to occupants’ comfort and behaviour assessment in this context.
Giorgia Spigliantini; Valentina Fabi; Marcel Schweiker; Stefano Corgnati. Historical buildings’ energy conservation potentialities. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation 2019, 37, 306 -325.
AMA StyleGiorgia Spigliantini, Valentina Fabi, Marcel Schweiker, Stefano Corgnati. Historical buildings’ energy conservation potentialities. International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation. 2019; 37 (3):306-325.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGiorgia Spigliantini; Valentina Fabi; Marcel Schweiker; Stefano Corgnati. 2019. "Historical buildings’ energy conservation potentialities." International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation 37, no. 3: 306-325.
Low-temperature radiant heating systems can be considered as suitable candidates for the refurbishment of old heating systems. These systems are proven to save energy, however, their drawback is their impact on the creation of radiant temperature asymmetry and local thermal discomfort, especially in old buildings where the temperatures of surfaces (for example external walls with a low level of insulation and large windows) are low. This study aims to evaluate the potential application of low-temperature radiant ceiling heating systems (28–38 °C) in old and energy-renovated buildings, based on subjective experiments and thermal comfort criteria such as thermal sensation, comfort, satisfaction, and sensation asymmetry votes. Later, in the Discussion section, the guideline for the radiant temperature asymmetry for the warm ceiling presented in ASHRAE Standard-55 is corrected for relatively low air temperatures and different surface temperatures corresponding to “about neutral” conditions for winter clothing. Findings of this research show that the radiant ceiling heating system operating at low temperatures (33–38 °C) can provide fairly neutral thermal sensation and satisfactory comfort at the majority of body-parts, if the building envelope satisfies advanced building energy-efficiency regulations. Additionally, the experimental analyses imply that limitation of 5% suggested by ASHRAE-55 for the percentage of dissatisfied occupants feeling uncomfortable due to overhead radiation can be elevated to 10%.
M. Reza Safizadeh; Marcel Schweiker; Andreas Wagner. Experimental Evaluation of Radiant Heating Ceiling Systems Based on Thermal Comfort Criteria. Energies 2018, 11, 2932 .
AMA StyleM. Reza Safizadeh, Marcel Schweiker, Andreas Wagner. Experimental Evaluation of Radiant Heating Ceiling Systems Based on Thermal Comfort Criteria. Energies. 2018; 11 (11):2932.
Chicago/Turabian StyleM. Reza Safizadeh; Marcel Schweiker; Andreas Wagner. 2018. "Experimental Evaluation of Radiant Heating Ceiling Systems Based on Thermal Comfort Criteria." Energies 11, no. 11: 2932.
Understanding the drivers leading to individual differences in human thermal perception has become increasingly important, amongst other things due to challenges such as climate change and an ageing society. This review summarizes existing knowledge related to physiological, psychological, and context-related drivers of diversity in thermal perception. Furthermore, the current state of knowledge is discussed in terms of its applicability in thermal comfort models, by combining modelling approaches of the thermoneutral zone (TNZ) and adaptive thermal heat balance model (ATHB). In conclusion, the results of this review show the clear contribution of some physiological and psychological factors, such as body composition, metabolic rate, adaptation to certain thermal environments and perceived control, to differences in thermal perception. However, the role of other potential diversity-causing parameters, such as age and sex, remain uncertain. Further research is suggested, especially regarding the interaction of different diversity-driving factors with each other, both physiological and psychological, to help establishing a holistic picture.
Marcel Schweiker; Gesche M. Huebner; Boris R. M. Kingma; Rick Kramer; Hannah Pallubinsky. Drivers of diversity in human thermal perception – A review for holistic comfort models. Temperature 2018, 5, 308 -342.
AMA StyleMarcel Schweiker, Gesche M. Huebner, Boris R. M. Kingma, Rick Kramer, Hannah Pallubinsky. Drivers of diversity in human thermal perception – A review for holistic comfort models. Temperature. 2018; 5 (4):308-342.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMarcel Schweiker; Gesche M. Huebner; Boris R. M. Kingma; Rick Kramer; Hannah Pallubinsky. 2018. "Drivers of diversity in human thermal perception – A review for holistic comfort models." Temperature 5, no. 4: 308-342.
Xaver Fuchs; Susanne Becker; Karin Schakib-Ekbatan; Marcel Schweiker. Subgroups holding different conceptions of scales rate room temperatures differently. Building and Environment 2018, 128, 236 -247.
AMA StyleXaver Fuchs, Susanne Becker, Karin Schakib-Ekbatan, Marcel Schweiker. Subgroups holding different conceptions of scales rate room temperatures differently. Building and Environment. 2018; 128 ():236-247.
Chicago/Turabian StyleXaver Fuchs; Susanne Becker; Karin Schakib-Ekbatan; Marcel Schweiker. 2018. "Subgroups holding different conceptions of scales rate room temperatures differently." Building and Environment 128, no. : 236-247.