Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

5-2022

Abstract

The built environment should be designed and operated to create safe, comfortable, and productive spaces for humans. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to understand human responses to environmental stimuli including, but not limited to, thermal, visual, air, and acoustic quality stimuli. Such an investigation allows researchers to identify threshold values, indexes, and models capturing human responses to environmental stimuli, which in turn can be used to design and control buildings to achieve tailored comfortable, healthy, and productive conditions with a limited energy use. In this context, human-centric approaches are becoming increasingly popular in the scientific community due to the unique and individual nature of human responses and the fact that they can be influenced by several personal and localized factors. Emerging technologies are making it easier to conduct human-centric investigations and actual building design and operation for comfortable, usable, adaptable, and energy-efficient buildings and public spaces

Keywords

indoor environmental quality, outdoor environmental quality, built environment, users’ perception, human wellbeing, human health, field-based survey, monitoring system

Discipline

Engineering | Environmental Design

Research Areas

Integrative Research Areas

Publication

Frontiers in Built Environment

Volume

8

First Page

1

Last Page

2

Identifier

10.3389/FBUIL.2022.918643

Publisher

Frontiers Research Foundation

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.3389/FBUIL.2022.918643

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