A systematic review of personal thermal comfort models

LA Martins, V Soebarto, T Williamson - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Personal comfort models have shown to predict specific thermal comfort requirements more
accurately than aggregate models, increasing occupant acceptability and associated energy …

[HTML][HTML] Next-generation energy systems for sustainable smart cities: Roles of transfer learning

Y Himeur, M Elnour, F Fadli, N Meskin, I Petri… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Smart cities attempt to reach net-zero emissions goals by reducing wasted energy while
improving grid stability and meeting service demand. This is possible by adopting next …

[HTML][HTML] A hybrid active learning framework for personal thermal comfort models

ZD Tekler, Y Lei, Y Peng, C Miller, A Chong - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Personal thermal comfort models are used to predict individual-level thermal comfort
responses to inform design and control decisions of buildings to achieve optimal …

Transfer learning for thermal comfort prediction in multiple cities

N Gao, W Shao, MS Rahaman, J Zhai, K David… - Building and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning) system is an important part of
a building, which constitutes up to 40% of building energy usage. The main purpose of …

Data-efficient comfort modeling: Active transfer learning for predicting personal thermal comfort using limited data

ZD Tekler, Y Lei, A Chong - Energy and Buildings, 2024 - Elsevier
Personal comfort models are used to predict thermal comfort responses at the individual
level rather than predicting the average thermal comfort responses for large populations …

Addressing data inadequacy challenges in personal comfort models by combining pretrained comfort models

T Zhang, J Gu, O Ardakanian, J Kim - Energy and Buildings, 2022 - Elsevier
Occupant thermal-comfort complaints are the biggest operational headache of facilities
managers. Many of the complaints can be attributed to the diverse nature of individuals' …

Meta-learning of personalized thermal comfort model and fast identification of the best personalized thermal environmental conditions

L Chen, A Ermis, F Meng, Y Zhang - Building and Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
The model of personalized thermal comfort can be learned via various machine learning
algorithms and used to improve the individuals' thermal comfort levels with potentially less …

Personal thermal comfort models: A deep learning approach for predicting older people's thermal preference

LA Martins, V Soebarto, T Williamson… - Smart and Sustainable …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper presents the development of personal thermal comfort models for older
adults and assesses the models' performance compared to aggregate approaches. This is …

Comparative feasibility study of physiological signals from wristband-type wearable sensors to assess occupants' thermal comfort

S Moon, SS Kim, B Choi - Energy and Buildings, 2024 - Elsevier
This study compares the feasibility of physiological signals acquired from wearable sensors
to assess building occupants' thermal comfort. Field experiments were conducted to acquire …

Unsupervised personal thermal comfort prediction via adversarial domain adaptation

HP Das, S Schiavon, CJ Spanos - Proceedings of the 8th ACM …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Personal thermal comfort models aim to predict an individual's thermal comfort response,
instead of the average response of a large group. However, conducting large-scale …