Towards Resolving Thermal Comfort Conflicts in Shared Spaces
Nadine von Frankenberg
Abstract
Thermal comfort is an important factor in building control, affecting occupant health, satisfaction, and productivity. Building management systems in commercial spaces commonly operate on predefined temperature setpoints and control strategies. Many systems target aggregated cohort comfort and neglect to consider the individual occupant’s thermal preferences, leading to high dissatisfaction rates. While recent studies focus on personalized comfort models, such systems mainly operate on occupant preference prediction and do not investigate the reasons for discomfort.
Topics & Concepts
Thermal comfortNeglectProductivityPreferenceFocus (optics)Control (management)Computer scienceArchitectural engineeringEngineeringPsychologyArtificial intelligenceEconomicsPhysicsPsychiatryThermodynamicsMicroeconomicsOpticsMacroeconomicsBuilding Energy and Comfort OptimizationUrban Heat Island MitigationColor perception and design