Accounting for the Uncertainty Related to Building Occupants with Regards to Visual Comfort:  A Literature Survey on Drivers and Models

Fabi, Valentina; Andersen, Rune Korsholm; Corgnati, Stefano Paolo

doi:10.3390/buildings6010005

Cited by 17 publications

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“…In contrast, the closing behaviour during departure and the opening behaviour during arrival were influenced by the absence duration. Fabi's review of the physical predictors that influence light switching behaviour identified the key drivers absence duration and daylight [273]. Season, light sensor control, and time spent with the light off were not significant.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Review of multi‐domain approaches to indoor environmental perception and behaviour

Schweiker

Ampatzi

Andargie

et al. 2020

Building and Environment

144

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Building occupants are continuously exposed to multiple indoor environmental stimuli, including thermal, visual, acoustic, and air quality related factors. Moreover, personal and contextual aspects can be regarded as additional domains influencing occupants' perception and behaviour. The scientific literature in this area typically deals with these multiple stimuli in isolation. In contrast to single-domain research, multi-domain research analyses at least two different domains, for example, visual and thermal. The relatively few literature reviews that have considered multi-domain approaches to indoor-environmental perception and behaviour covered only a few dozen articles each. The present contribution addresses this paucity by reviewing 219 scientific papers on interactions and cross-domain effects that influence occupants' indoor environmental perception and behaviour. The objective of the present review is to highlight motivational backgrounds, key methodologies, and major findings of multi-domain investigations of human perception and behaviour in indoor environments. The in-depth review of these papers provides not only an overview of the state of the art, but also contributes to the identification of existing knowledge gaps in this area and the corresponding need for future research. In particular, many studies use "convenience" variables and samples, there is often a lack of theoretical foundation to studies, and there is little research linking perception to action.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Review of multi‐domain approaches to indoor environmental perception and behaviour

Schweiker

Ampatzi

Andargie

et al. 2020

Building and Environment

144

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“…The survey was prepared following standards ISO 10551 [57]. Several studies adopt the subjecting approach by submitting surveys [48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62]. Sometimes, particular conditions or particular users, such as children in a 4-5 years age range [15,63], require the survey to be integrated or adapted to facilitate the understanding and the filling procedure.…”

Section: Subjective Approach: Thermal Comfort Surveymentioning

confidence: 99%

Indoor Thermal Comfort of Pregnant Women in Hospital: A Case Study Evidence

2019

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Despite studies on thermal comfort being consolidated in the scientific literature, people’s well-being in some specific conditions and places, such as hospitals, requires to be further explored. The paper describes the methodological approach adopted to evaluate thermal comfort level and perception of pregnant women hosted in the obstetric ward of a test-bed case (Sant’Orsola hospital in Bologna, Italy). The methodology adopts a mixed approach that compares the results of on-site monitoring by probe (as quantitative data) with the ones of a survey (questionnaire form) delivered to the involved subjects (as qualitative data) to understand if metabolic alteration may influence the pregnant women’s perception of comfort conditions. The first follows ISO 7730, the second, ISO 10551. The comparison between the instrumental collected data and the outcomes of the survey revealed a wide gap between TSV (Thermal Sensation Vote) and PMVm (Predicted Mean Vote, measured on-site). The reason can be identified in the use of a standardized metabolic unit from ISO that does not correctly reflect the physiologic condition of pregnant women. Following a trial and error methodology, a met value for pregnant women is accordingly proposed. Moreover, an adaptive thermal comfort approach is adopted. This research is a first step towards the definition of specific thermal comfort in a hospital ward hosting pregnant women and more generally offers a reflection about the need to define specific met in the standards for some particular categories (children, elderly, pregnant women, etc.) when investigating thermal comfort.

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“…[18], as well as visual comfort inside buildings -Yao, J. [19], Fabi, V. [20], and in industrial operations. Gou, Z. et al studied visual comfort and simulated lighting effects in relation to the productivity and well-being of the population [21,22].…”

Section: Sustainability In Industrial Building Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lighting Quality of Indoor Environment in Large Floor Buildings in Light Industry

Katunský¹,

Dolníková²

2017

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The paper highlights the problems associated with the application of daylight and integral lighting in industrial facilities. In the case study of a multi-storey textile plant, we show how combined lighting (daylight and integral illumination) can be evaluated in production halls labelled F and G. These halls have large areas 54 x 54 metres, and are more than 5 meters high. There is daylight only on side through connected windows in a vertical position. In this paper we want to present case studies of these two production halls in the textile factory located in Kosice (Slovakia). These are halls that are lit through by daylight from two sides through external walls that are opposite or next to each other. The results of the case studies can be applied in similar production halls illuminated by a “bilateral” —a double-side daylight system and natural illumination through windows on two sides in a vertical position. Such a situation is typical of multi-storey buildings in light industry. The proposed approach of daylight factor calculation can also be applied to floor space in other similar buildings.

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Accounting for the Uncertainty Related to Building Occupants with Regards to Visual Comfort: A Literature Survey on Drivers and Models

Cited by 17 publications

References 32 publications

Review of multi‐domain approaches to indoor environmental perception and behaviour

Review of multi‐domain approaches to indoor environmental perception and behaviour

Indoor Thermal Comfort of Pregnant Women in Hospital: A Case Study Evidence

Lighting Quality of Indoor Environment in Large Floor Buildings in Light Industry

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