Updating the adaptive relation between climate and comfort indoors; new insights and an extended database

MA Humphreys, HB Rijal, JF Nicol - Building and environment, 2013‏ - Elsevier
We look critically at the principal graphs relating thermal comfort indoors to the climate, and
compare the metrics used for the climate; an exponential running mean of the mean outdoor …

Thermal comfort: research and practice

J Van Hoof, M Mazej, JLM Hensen - Frontiers in Bioscience, 2010‏ - research.tue.nl
Thermal comfort-the state of mind, which expresses satisfaction with the thermal
environment-is an important aspect of the building design process as modern man spends …

[ספר][B] Adaptive thermal comfort: foundations and analysis

M Humphreys, F Nicol, S Roaf - 2015‏ - taylorfrancis.com
There has been widespread dissatisfaction with accepted models for predicting the
conditions that people will find thermally comfortable in buildings. These models require …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating assumptions of scales for subjective assessment of thermal environments–Do laypersons perceive them the way, we researchers believe?

M Schweiker, M André, F Al-Atrash, H Al-Khatri… - Energy and …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
People's subjective response to any thermal environment is commonly investigated by using
rating scales describing the degree of thermal sensation, comfort, and acceptability …

Field studies of indoor thermal comfort and the progress of the adaptive approach

MA Humphreys, JF Nicol, IA Raja - Advances in building energy …, 2012‏ - taylorfrancis.com
The experimental basis of the adaptive approach to thermal comfort is the field study. Since
the publication of Bedford's study in 1936, many researchers have collected data on …

How humans adapt to hot climates learned from the recent research on tropical indigenes

Y Tochihara, H Wakabayashi, JY Lee… - Journal of physiological …, 2022‏ - Springer
This review mainly aimed to introduce the findings of research projects comparing the
responses of tropical and temperate indigenes to heat. From a questionnaire survey on …

Exploring thermal comfort experience and adaptive opportunities of female and male high school students

H Al-Khatri, M Alwetaishi, MB Gadi - Journal of Building Engineering, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Students' health and productivity are affected by the thermal conditions inside the
educational environments. Considering the lack of thermal comfort research in the Arabian …

The impact of a passive wall combining natural ventilation and evaporative cooling on schools' thermal conditions in a hot climate

S Mohamed, H Al-Khatri, J Calautit, S Omer… - Journal of Building …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Students' performance is negatively influenced by poor indoor environments. In Sudan that
is characterised by extreme climate, providing comfortable classrooms is required to …

The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales

M Schweiker, A Abdul-Zahra, M André, F Al-Atrash… - Scientific data, 2019‏ - nature.com
Thermal discomfort is one of the main triggers for occupants' interactions with components of
the built environment such as adjustments of thermostats and/or opening windows and …

The influence of climatocultural background on outdoor thermal perception

D Brychkov, Y Garb, D Pearlmutter - International journal of …, 2018‏ - Springer
This study examines the extent to which people with different past thermal experience and
“climatocultural” history systematically report different outdoor thermal sensations and …