Personal comfort systems (PCSs) that are energy efficient have been widely used indoors to
improve occupant thermal comfort and acceptability under a variety of thermo-hygrometric …

Personal conditioning systems (PCS) enable increased thermal comfort and acceptability
conditions in a wider temperature range, resulting in energy savings. Many studies analysed …

This paper presents a review of technologies under the paradigm 4.0 applied to the study of
the thermal comfort and, implicitly, energy efficiency. The research is based on the analysis …

Abstract Personal Comfort Systems (PCS) are equipments that heat and/or cool occupants
without affecting surrounding environments, ranging from commonly used devices to …

Acknowledging the current digitalizing of buildings and their existence as interactive objects,
this article sets out to consolidate Human-Building Interaction (HBI) as a new research …

This work develops a theoretical model to examine the trust building process in an Internet
of Things (IoT) based wearable platform. Specifically, various antecedents of trust are …

Featured Application Interaction with nursing-care assistant robot and appliances in smart
infrastructure. Abstract The expansion of nursing-care assistant robots in smart infrastructure …

Desk fans allow individual thermal adjustment in shared spaces which increases occupants'
thermal satisfaction. When associated with the increase of room conditioning system …

This study assessed the usability of three readily available Personalized Thermal Control
Systems (PECS)—an electric blanket, a small personal fan, and a large pedestal fan …

In recent years, wearable electronics have been gradually applied in the measurement of
human health signals with the development of the technology and the increasing attention to …