Energy and Buildings, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 318, P. 114438 - 114438

Published: Sept. 1, 2024

Wearable Thermoregulating Devices (WTDs) are increasingly recognized for their potential in enhancing occupant health and wellbeing cold environments, particularly individuals most susceptible to cold. While existing literature primarily explores these devices' impact on thermal comfort, there remains a gap understanding the variety of WTDs and, crucially, factors influencing acceptance use. We conducted scoping review synthesize state knowledge device types, research designs affecting user satisfaction, perception adoption foster future development consumer uptake. selected 52 studies out from an initial pool 2105 using structured protocol. Besides predominant focus young participants climate chambers various kinds subjective measurements, further findings reveal significant emphasize physiological aspects lack psychology (n = 1, 0.2 %) or design 5, 11 %). These underscore urgent need investigations extending current demographic environmental tendencies incorporate user-centric principles. Ultimately, this aims facilitate WTDs, bridging between technological advances real-world application.

Language: Английский