Akihiro Tamura

TL;DR: This work focused on transitional space as a space in between outdoor and indoor, and verified that PMV cannot be used for transitional space thermal comfort predictions because of its unstable and dynamic physical and MET value.

TL;DR: This article explored the relationship between thermal history and indoor comfort and found that there is a strong interaction and influence of our experience with outdoor weather and our indoor thermal comfort, and that subjects who use airconditioning at home responded with warmer thermal sensations than the subjects who did not use air-conditioning.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated thermal comfort during walking activities through transitional spaces-urban corridors, shopping streets, and open-ended passageways-and found that the previously experienced temperatures determined thermal comfort at the following point in the sequence.

TL;DR: In this article, a long-term field survey was conducted with six buildings in order to investigate how the occupants adapt to the indoor climate in office buildings in Japan, and more than 5000 questionnaires and corresponding indoor temperatures were collected.

TL;DR: In this paper, field measurements and experiments were conducted in two underground shopping malls and a department store in Japan, where the air temperatures in both spaces were particularly different in winter and subjects evaluated their environment more severely than they did for the underground shopping mall.