Exploring the role of skin temperature in thermal sensation and thermal comfort: A comprehensive review

Energy and Built Environment, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 1, 2024

The role of skin temperature as a determinant human thermal sensation and comfort has gained increasing recognition, prompting need for systematic review. This review examines the relationship between sensation, synthesizing insights from 172 studies published since 2000. It uniquely focuses on indispensable roles local mean temperatures, perspective not comprehensively explored in previous literature. reveals that most common measurement points are face hands, attributed to their higher sensitivity practical ease measurement. establishes clear linear user though affected by choice locations number points. A notable finding is varying impact overall changing environments, with heating less influential than cooling. also uncovers significant demographic variations strongly influenced differing temperatures across age groups, genders, climatic regions. For example, elderly populations exhibit decreased sensitivity, especially towards warmth. Gender differences significant, females experiencing warmer environments lower colder ones. Machine learning (ML)-based methods, classification tree-based support vector machine (SVM) techniques, dominate predicting comfort, leveraging data. While ML methods prevalent, statistical regression-based approaches offer valuable empirical insights. Thermo-physiological model-based provide reliable results incorporating detailed dynamics. identifies gap understanding how gender, age, regional influence diverse environments. study recommends conducting more nuanced experiments dissect these factors proposes integration individual variables into models personalize predictions.

Language: Английский

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Challenges and opportunities of occupant-centric building controls in real-world implementation: A critical review

Energy and Buildings, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 308, P. 113958 - 113958

Published: Feb. 14, 2024

Over the past few decades, attention in buildings’ design and operation has gradually shifted from promoting only energy efficiency objectives to also addressing human comfort well-being. Researchers have developed a wide range of control algorithms ranging rule-based controls complex learning approaches that can fully capture occupants’ personalized preferences smart buildings. This direction occupant-centric building bridge gap between satisfaction sustainability objectives. However, most these promising technologies not yet found their way into real-world applications. study will perform critical review on thermal lighting studies aiming (i) analyze strengths weaknesses different approaches; (ii) identify requirements for techniques be implemented systems; (iii) propose new research directions promote usability such catalyst towards adoption. Computational complexity, integration with Building Automation Systems (BAS), data availability quality, scalability, lack more featuring actual implementation emerge as barriers. Addressing challenges is imperative successful deployment

Language: Английский

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From characteristics to practical applications of skin temperature in thermal comfort research – A comprehensive review

Building and Environment, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 262, P. 111820 - 111820

Published: July 6, 2024

Language: Английский

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Advancing personal thermal comfort prediction: A data-driven framework integrating environmental and occupant dynamics using machine learning

Building and Environment, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 262, P. 111799 - 111799

Published: Aug. 1, 2024

Language: Английский

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Optimizing personal comfort: Short-term personalized heating impact on sanitation workers' thermo-physiological responses

Building and Environment, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 112112 - 112112

Published: Sept. 1, 2024

Language: Английский

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Physiological-signal-based prediction of occupant thermal comfort in a nonuniform transient vehicular cabin during winter

Building and Environment, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 112561 - 112561

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Non-Intrusive Infrared Facial Thermography for Personal Thermal Sensation Prediction Models: A Field Study

Building and Environment, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 112606 - 112606

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Prediction model for personalized thermal comfort of indoor office workers based on non-skin contact wearable device

Building and Environment, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 112686 - 112686

Published: Feb. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Development of an automatic personal comfort system (APCS) based on real-time thermal sensation prediction

Building and Environment, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 246, P. 110958 - 110958

Published: Oct. 20, 2023

Language: Английский

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Adaptive heating, ventilation, and air conditioning: energy-efficient thermal comfort for tomorrow

Elsevier eBooks, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 197 - 211

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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