TY - GEN
T1 - A chamber study about the prediction of thermal sensation with short-term thermal experience
AU - Ji, Wenjie
AU - Cao, Bin
AU - Zhu, Yingxin
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PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - 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 26oC, 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.
AB - 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 26oC, 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.
KW - Adaptive thermal comfort
KW - Skin temperature
KW - Thermal comfort evaluations
KW - Thermal experience
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85053910357
SN - 9788379472604
T3 - Healthy Buildings Europe 2017
BT - Healthy Buildings Europe 2017
PB - International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate
T2 - Healthy Buildings Europe 2017, HB 2017
Y2 - 2 July 2017 through 5 July 2017
ER -