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A new holistic human comfort to express the environmental satisfaction of…
A new holistic human comfort to express the environmental satisfaction of an active user
Definition: We define human comfort as the overall environmental satisfaction of the active occupant within the building
Overlapping effects between different sensorial activities
Thermal and visual
Visual and acoustic
Thermal and IAQ
Thermal and acoustic
Other social, psychological or contextual comfort features
Personal control
Adaptive model: expectations depend on external activities and past (short term, long term) comfort experiences
Contextual variables (lighting, colour, furnishing, type of space)
Classificatory variables (gender, age, education etc)
Psychological (knowledge, experience, self-perceived cold- naturedness etc
People act upon their environment by using shared strategies (Cole & al, 2008)
Individual judgements about comfort depends on norms and standards shared amongst a group (Cole & al, 2008)
Socio-cultural (employment status, place of residence, background)
Level of fitness, health
Geographical expectations, in some contexts some comfort issues are predominant on others ex. Saudi Arabia thermal more important
Possibility to move - how this fits with an office position
How to measure it?
IEQ
Regression or correlation models to capture the weight of each single factors and come out with an overall value
Inclusion of all factors without an overall value, designed space needs to fit in the coexistence area for each parameter
Productivity
Q. Jin
Kawamura
Time: each expectation for comfort and satisfaction is depending on time (season, during the day, year etc.)
the longer you are in a space, the more the satisfaction improves, interaction depends on tasks