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Updating the adaptive relation between climate and comfort indoors; new insights and an extended database
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In this article, the authors developed a method to derive a standard sensitivity to indoor temperatures change, which is used to estimate the comfort temperatures and to establish a curve relating the probability of discomfort to the temperature-difference from the current optimum.About:
This article is published in Building and Environment.The article was published on 2013-05-01. It has received 252 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Thermal comfort & ASHRAE 90.1.read more
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A comparative study of thermal comfort in learning spaces using three different ventilation strategies on a tropical university campus
TL;DR: In this article, the thermal comfort of the occupants of learning spaces using three different ventilation strategies (i.e., air-conditioning, hybrid and natural ventilations) was investigated at a tropical university campus.
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Influence of long-term thermal history on thermal comfort and preference
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored how climatic background or long-term thermal history influences individuals' in-the-moment thermal comfort experiences and found that participants with a warmer thermal history had cooler thermal sensations compared to their counterparts in the similar-to and colder-than-UK thermal history groups, when exposed to the same environments.
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Thermal sensitivity of occupants in different building typologies: The Griffiths Constant is a Variable
TL;DR: In this paper, the Griffiths method is used to derive building users' comfort temperature, or thermal neutrality as it is sometimes known, from a subject's actual thermal sensation vote at a measured room temperature.
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Investigation of Comfort Temperature and Occupant Behavior in Japanese Houses during the Hot and Humid Season
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a thermal comfort survey and occupant behavior survey in 30 living rooms during the hot and humid season in the Kanto region of Japan and collected 3991 votes from 52 subjects.
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Children's thermal comfort and adaptive behaviours; UK primary schools during non-heating and heating seasons
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study children's thermal comfort and related adaptive behaviors in UK primary schools. But, the study was carried out in 32 naturally-ventilated classrooms during Non-Heating (NH) and Heating (H) seasons.
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Developing an adaptive model of thermal comfort and preference - eScholarship
Richard de Dear,Gail Brager +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the semantics of thermal comfort in terms of thermal sensation, acceptability, and preference, as a function of both indoor and outdoor temperature, as predicted by the adaptive hypothesis.
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Developing an adaptive model of thermal comfort and preference
Richard de Dear,Gail Brager +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the adaptive hypothesis predicts that contextual factors and past thermal history modify building occupants' thermal expectations and preferences, which is contrary to static assumptions underlying the current ASHRAE comfort standard 55-92.
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A standard predictive index of human response to the thermal environment
TL;DR: The three rational indices of this type to be considered are ASHRAE's Standard Effective Temperature (SET*) Index, defined as the equivalent dry bulb temperature of an isothermal environment at 50% RH in which a subject, while wearing clothing standardized for activity concerned, would have the same heat stress (skin temperature T/sub sk/) and thermo-regulatory strain (skin wettedness, w) as in the actual test environment; Fanger's Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) index, defined in terms of the heat load that would be required to restore