Building automation and perceived control: A field study on motorized exterior blinds in Dutch offices

Meerbeek, Bernt; Kulve, M Marije te; Gritti, T Tommasso; Aarts, Mpj Mariëlle; Loenen, EJ Evert van; Aarts, Ehl Emile

doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2014.04.023

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“…In the remaining six 8 control weeks, actions were performed by changing individuals with three changes a week by on average 9 three users. Similar to previous studies the users in this study showed different usage behaviours ranging 10 from active users to users with limited performed control actions [24]. The majority of control actions took 11 place at the start of the work day (45%) of which two third was to dim down.…”

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Satisfying light conditions: A field study on perception of consensus light in Dutch open office environments

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Section: Figure 8 Dimming Levels Of the Luminaires In Fraction Of Timsupporting

confidence: 61%

Satisfying light conditions: A field study on perception of consensus light in Dutch open office environments

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“…Meerbeek et al [34] performed a large field study with automatically controlled venetian blind systems with options for manual override. In three of their four identified use profiles, people are not satisfied with the automatic mode and switch it off completely.…”

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A perspective on multi-user interaction design based on an understanding of domestic lighting conflicts

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2017

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More and more connected systems are entering the social and shared home environment. Interaction with these systems is often rather individual and based on personal preferences, leading to conflicts in multi-user situations. In this paper, we aim to develop a perspective on how to design for multi-user interaction with connected lighting systems, based on a better understanding of reallife interpersonal lighting conflicts. In order to understand everyday lighting conflicts, including their causes and resolution strategies, we present two studies. First, we observe real-life lighting conflicts between couples living in single-room apartments. Using probes for data gathering followed by dyadic interviews, we identify the role of agreements on use in conflicts and we identify different types of conflicts (preference, activity, and attitude conflicts). Next, we take a more disruptive approach based on technology probes, where we provoke lighting conflicts in family living rooms to observe resolution strategies. We find that people try to avoid conflicts at all costs. If there is a risk that others are negatively affected by an adjustment, people rather not interact with the system at all. Based on these insights, we defined a perspective on designing for multi-user interaction that provides the user with the confidence that interactions are socially accepted. This assurance can be given by presenting the user with information leading to awareness about the acceptance of a lighting change by the other users. We advise on what information can be visualized, based on the three conflict types we observed in the study. The combination of a deeper understanding of conflicts and a perspective on multi-user interface design can serve as a starting point to design better multi-user interfaces for domestic connected systems.

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“…In these cases, continuity in two dimensions and the equations governing the flow and energy is given by: (8) The dimensionless parameters in the equations above are defined as follows: …”

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“…It has become common in recent years to gather data on human attitudes and behaviour in building energy research through interviews with building occupants and other relevant actors. Examples of this kind of research are found in the main journals which deal with technical aspects of energy in buildings, including Building and Environment [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12], Building and Environment [13][14][15], Energy Storage [16][17][18][19][20], Energy and Buildings [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]. In most situations, the mechanical cooling devices offer solutions that are neither environment friendly nor energy sustainable.…”

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New methodology for the walls design in buildings by numerical simulation of the thermal convection

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Abstract. Buildings are complex systems composed of several elements, which are assembled to respond to a number of needs functional and symbolic according to set of legal and environmental requirements and potentially accommodate users with different levels of demand. Predicting the conception of the external wall is beneficial in the design of house and building structures.in this study, an analogy was used for the functions which are discretized by the finite difference method and integrated in the CFD code which is based on the finite volume method. The CFD software is used as a technique to modelling the behaviour of fluid and the thermal convection in the external wall of the house with different Rayleigh numbers [10 3 Ra 10 5 ]. In the second phase, we change the thickness of the wall several times and calculate the Nusselt number and exchange coefficient of heat transfer aims to find a cloud point respectively for the thicknesses e = 0, L /40, L /20 and L /10. After, we developed a relationship that helps us to know the exchange ratio for each thickness ( e ) belongs to the interval [0, L /10] by the Lagrange polynomial interpolation method for Rayleigh number equal 10 4 , and then we developed a FORTRAN program to control the nonlinear equation of order three. This method for predicting exchange coefficient of convection for to optimize the design of walls in buildings.

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Building automation and perceived control: A field study on motorized exterior blinds in Dutch offices

Cited by 92 publications

References 17 publications

Satisfying light conditions: A field study on perception of consensus light in Dutch open office environments

Satisfying light conditions: A field study on perception of consensus light in Dutch open office environments

A perspective on multi-user interaction design based on an understanding of domestic lighting conflicts

New methodology for the walls design in buildings by numerical simulation of the thermal convection

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