Do people like to feel ‘neutral’?

Humphreys, Michael; Hancock, Mary

doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2007.02.014

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“…To a large extent, the micro-weather governs human thermal sensation (box G) in a specific location at a specific point in time. "Thermal sensation" denotes the purely physiological part of thermal perception (Humphreys and Hancock 2007;Knez et al 2009). Additional momentary factors that influence this sensation are amongst other clothing, a person's metabolism (depending on the type of their physical activity at that moment), and the length of exposure to the local microclimate (Parsons 2003; Cheung and Jim 2018) (box F).…”

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Exploring outdoor thermal perception—a revised model

Lenzholzer

Vries

2019

Int J Biometeorol

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This paper aims at extending earlier models of outdoor thermal perception by fusing new knowledge from recent literature and deriving perspectives for future research and methods from the new model. Previous models focused on physical and physiological aspects. Only recently, the psychological aspects of thermal perception received more attention, such as spatial perception. Furthermore, in recent literature on thermal perception, two time scales have been described: the short-term and the long-term thermal perception. Based on this new literature, we develop a conceptual, more comprehensive model that takes these factors into account as well. It hypothesizes how thermal sensation and psychological processes interact on the two time scales. However, to be able to describe relationships between psychological aspects of thermal perception more precisely, more research is required on the following issues: (1) influence of momentary personal references and preferences (e.g., mood), (2) influence of long-term personal references and preferences (e.g., cultural aspects, habituation), and (3) influence of the perception of the spatial environment on thermal perception. Moreover, the relation between momentary and long-term thermal perception has not been studied yet. We conclude this paper with an outlook on possible methods to study these factors.

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Section: Reshaping the Existing Modelmentioning

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Exploring outdoor thermal perception—a revised model

Lenzholzer

Vries

2019

Int J Biometeorol

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“…De Dear [61] differentiates thermal pleasure from thermal neutrality using as example the PMV method: a PMV=0 is supposed to provide thermal neutrality, but not necessarily thermal pleasure (people may like or dislike it). For example, Humphreys and Hancock [63] analyzed the results of field studies in university lecture halls and in dwellings and found that by asking people how they would like to feel, 57% of the time the answer was different from -neutral‖, varying according to the thermal sensation experienced at that moment. However, the concept of alliesthesia is not yet established in any standard or A c c e p t e d M a n u s c r i p t 11 regulation and therefore more studies are needed in order to consider this concept when thinking about thermal comfort in the built environment.…”

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A review of human thermal comfort in the built environment

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Vásquez

Lamberts

2015

Energy and Buildings

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“…Furthermore, comfort temperatures indicated by occupants covered a wider range of temperatures than those predicted by Fanger's model, especially in summer [49,50]. c) Physiological adjustments, such as the body's response to exposure to some environmental factors that will gradually reduce the effort caused by that exposure [52,53]. This adaptation can be divided in two types: the acclimatization that takes place within a period of days, and genetic adaptation in which the adaptation is incorporated in the genetic inheritance.…”

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On the minimal thermal habitability conditions in low income dwellings in Spain for a new definition of fuel poverty

Sánchez

Mavrogianni²,

González

2017

Building and Environment

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Fuel poverty can be defined as "the inability to afford adequate warmth in the home". The concept was firstly developed due to health risks related to cold among low income households. However, in the last few decades, especially since the summer heat wave of 2003 that caused 35,000 deaths across Europe, a lot of research has been conducted about the health risks related to high temperatures.Along with advances in knowledge related to the health risks associated with inadequate temperatures, several directives of the European Commission related to energy regulation urge Member States to develop their own fuel poverty definitions. This need of a methodological development for new definitions poses several questions. First, what should be the temperature thresholds for the overheated season? But, furthermore, are existing temperature baselines adequate for the Spanish context and climate?This paper presents a preliminary approach to define these new temperature thresholds for the Spanish context through the adaptive comfort model criteria. For that purpose, a statistically representative dwelling building typology of vulnerable household spaces was used to analyze indoor thermal temperatures and hence, to establish minimal energy requirements so as to achieve minimal habitability conditions.

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Do people like to feel ‘neutral’?

Cited by 197 publications

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Exploring outdoor thermal perception—a revised model

Exploring outdoor thermal perception—a revised model

A review of human thermal comfort in the built environment

On the minimal thermal habitability conditions in low income dwellings in Spain for a new definition of fuel poverty

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