A chamber study about the prediction of thermal sensation with short-term thermal experience

The purpose of this study is to explore how the human body adapt to an environment when the temperature changed. We designed a chamber experiment, and recruited 20 subjects. There are totally five conditions in this experiment (one control group), each condition consists of two parts: Firstly, subjects are asked to stay in one temperature, hot or cold, for a period of time; Then they all go into 26^oC, which is thought to be the neutral environment. We measured their skin temperature of the whole process, and let them finished a questionnaire many times at the same time. We found that if the poor thermal environment improved somewhat, the satisfaction of thermal comfort will improve significantly. And two methods for the prediction of thermal sensation with short-term thermal experience were proposed based on skin temperature and subjective assessment. This study has made a contribution to the research of adaptive thermal comfort.