Rucha Amin

TL;DR: In this article, a large international collaborative questionnaire study was conducted in 26 countries, using 21 different languages, which led to a dataset of 8225 questionnaires, and significant differences appeared between groups of participants in their perception of the scales, both in relation to distances of the anchors and relationships between scales.

TL;DR: This study aims to gain deeper knowledge on contextual influences on the interpretation of thermal perception scales and their verbal anchors by survey participants and 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.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the influence of occupants' thermal history on use of controls and indoor temperature preference in a newly built halls of residence building complex in Southampton, UK, which provides 1104 rooms to international and UK students.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used data from a 6-month field study to investigate the process of thermal adaptation to a new climate, using a series of four thermal comfort surveys conducted with 48 occupants of single occupancy residential accommodation units, which helped to estimate their preferred temperatures.

TL;DR: Post-occupancy evaluation is approached as a dynamic process that could be used to facilitate the responsive interaction of occupants with building systems and deliver through their engagement high energy performance and comfort.