Thermal comfort is defined as the condition of mind that expresses satisfaction with the
thermal environment and it is assessed by subjective evaluation. Achieving comfortable …

Improving the efficiency of building energy systems is crucial to reach a goal related to the
high–performance building, particularly in the space heating and air-cooling domain, which …

A personal comfort model is an approach to thermal comfort modeling, for thermal
environmental design and control, that predicts an individual's thermal comfort response …

Emotion affects people's cognition, perception and reaction to the outside world. The
psychological and physiological changes brought by different emotion states may have …

As one of the representative parameters for human energy metabolism, the metabolic rate
has been considered as the significant factor for occupants' thermal comfort analyses …

Smart offices can help employers attract and retain talented people and can positively
impact well-being and productivity. Thanks to emerging technologies and increased …

Understanding the effects of environment on the mental health of older adults is crucial in an
aging society. Previous research concerning restorative benefits of forests almost entirely …

Today's commercially-off-the-shelf (COST) wearable devices can unobtrusively capture
several important parameters that may be used to measure the indoor comfort of building …

In the context of carbon neutrality, it is increasingly important to reduce carbon and increase
sinks, and urban green spaces play an important role in carbon sinks. In this paper, we used …

This paper presents the experimental performance assessment of a smartwatch (SW)
measuring the heart rate variability (HRV), compared to a multi-parametric chest belt that is …