An occupant-participatory approach for thermal comfort enhancement and energy conservation in buildings

AH Lam, Y Yuan, D Wang - … of the 5th international conference on Future …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Commercial building is one of the major energy consumers worldwide. Among the building
services, the heating, ventilating and air-conditioning (HVAC) system dominates the total …

Carrying my environment with me: A participatory-sensing approach to enhance thermal comfort

LA Hang-yat, D Wang - Proceedings of the 5th ACM Workshop on …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Commercial building is one of the major energy consumers that has drawn worldwide
concerns. Heating, ventilating and air-conditioning (HVAC) system constitutes 40% of the …

Occupant thermal feedback for improved efficiency in university buildings

M Pritoni, K Salmon, A Sanguinetti, J Morejohn… - Energy and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems are responsible for more
than half of the energy consumed in many buildings on university campuses in the US …

Long-term thermal comfort monitoring via wearable sensing techniques: correlation between environmental metrics and subjective perception

V Martins Gnecco, I Pigliautile, AL Pisello - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
The improvement of comfort monitoring resources is pivotal for a better understanding of
personal perception in indoor and outdoor environments and thus developing personalized …

Personal comfort models: Predicting individuals' thermal preference using occupant heating and cooling behavior and machine learning

J Kim, Y Zhou, S Schiavon, P Raftery, G Brager - Building and environment, 2018 - Elsevier
A personal comfort model is a new approach to thermal comfort modeling that predicts
individuals' thermal comfort responses, instead of the average response of a large …

The NEXT. ROOM: Design principles and systems trials of a novel test room aimed at deepening our knowledge on human comfort

F Vittori, C Chiatti, I Pigliautile, AL Pisello - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Occupants' interaction with building systems, and more generally occupants' behaviour, is
strongly related to human perception of the surroundings. Progresses in human comfort …

HEAT-human embodied autonomous thermostat

D Li, CC Menassa, VR Kamat, E Byon - Building and Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
The lack of thermal comfort among occupants is a common problem in built environments.
Recent studies have investigated various physiological sensing and modeling approaches …

Crowdsensing for a sustainable comfort and for energy saving

D Cottafava, S Magariello, R Ariano, O Arrobbio… - Energy and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Energy efficiency in buildings is a key issue in the current energy transition. In order to
reduce building energy consumption, users' behaviour and the perception of indoor …

A personalized measure of thermal comfort for building controls

D Daum, F Haldi, N Morel - Building and Environment, 2011 - Elsevier
A personalized measure for thermal comfort has been applied for use in combination with
smart controls for building automation. Using data from a field study, we first show the …

Physiological sensing-driven personal thermal comfort modelling in consideration of human activity variations

J Lee, Y Ham - Building Research & Information, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
As one of the representative parameters for human energy metabolism, the metabolic rate
has been considered as the significant factor for occupants' thermal comfort analyses …