Impact of control availability on perceived comfort

Hongshan Guo; Forrest Meggers

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2015.11.254

Impact of control availability on perceived comfort

Hongshan Guo, Forrest Meggers

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Abstract

Open plan offices are known for improving the interaction among occupants while risking their comfort. Traditionally considered to be caused by deprivation of privacy and safety, the discomfort is also recently attributed to occupants' lost of control availability. According to some studies, improving perceived control could improve perceived comfort. However, few studies investigated the correlation with variations of control availability. An investigation is therefore presented in this paper that examines the impact of different levels of control availabilities' on perceived thermal comfort, for which a potential gap of thermal neutrality was identified as the availability of control increased.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1671-1677
Number of pages	7
Journal	Energy Procedia
Volume	78
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2015.11.254
State	Published - Nov 1 2015
Event	6th International Building Physics Conference, IBPC 2015 - Torino, Italy Duration: Jun 14 2015 → Jun 17 2015

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General Energy

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