Evolution and performance analysis of adaptive thermal comfort models–A comprehensive literature review

R Yao, S Zhang, C Du, M Schweiker, S Hodder… - Building and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Thermal comfort is fundamental to indoor environmental design and operation as well as
indoor thermal environment evaluation. This paper has reviewed the historic evolution of …

A review of adaptive thermal comfort research since 1998

R De Dear, J **ong, J Kim, B Cao - Energy and Buildings, 2020 - Elsevier
The rapid escalation of cooling demand in buildings set against the backdrop of a global
climate emergency is intensifying research activity on adaptive thermal comfort. In this …

Review on occupant-centric thermal comfort sensing, predicting, and controlling

J **e, H Li, C Li, J Zhang, M Luo - Energy and Buildings, 2020 - Elsevier
Ensuring occupants' thermal comfort and work performance is one of the primary objectives
for building environment conditioning systems. In recent years, there emerged many …

A review of thermal comfort models and indicators for indoor environments

D Enescu - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the most used thermal comfort models and indicators with their variants,
discussing their usage in control problems referring to energy management in indoor …

Nudging the adaptive thermal comfort model

T Parkinson, R De Dear, G Brager - Energy and Buildings, 2020 - Elsevier
The recent release of the largest database of thermal comfort field studies (ASHRAE Global
Thermal Comfort Database II) presents an opportunity to perform a quality assurance …

Non-intrusive interpretation of human thermal comfort through analysis of facial infrared thermography

D Li, CC Menassa, VR Kamat - Energy and Buildings, 2018 - Elsevier
Understanding occupants' thermal sensation and comfort is essential to defining the
operational settings for Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems in …

Drivers of diversity in human thermal perception–A review for holistic comfort models

M Schweiker, GM Huebner, BRM Kingma, R Kramer… - Temperature, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Understanding the drivers leading to individual differences in human thermal perception has
become increasingly important, amongst other things due to challenges such as climate …

State-of-the-art, challenges and new perspectives of thermal comfort demand law for on-demand intelligent control of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems

X Zhao, Y Yin, Z He, Z Deng - Energy and Buildings, 2023 - Elsevier
The indoor thermal environment in buildings, industry, and other fields greatly affects human
thermal comfort, productivity, energy consumption, and even health. The heating, ventilation …

Daylight affects human thermal perception

G Chinazzo, J Wienold, M Andersen - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Understanding the factors that affect human thermal responses is necessary to properly
design and operate low-energy buildings. It has been suggested that factors not related to …

Data-driven thermal comfort model via support vector machine algorithms: Insights from ASHRAE RP-884 database

X Zhou, L Xu, J Zhang, B Niu, M Luo, G Zhou… - Energy and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Many models can predict building occupants' thermal comfort, but their accuracies were not
always perfect due to the limited self-learning and self-correction capability when varying the …