How to design comfortable open spaces for the elderly? Implications of their thermal perceptions in an urban park

Ma, Xiaoyan; Tian, Yu; Du, Meng; Hong, Bo; Lin, Borong

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.144985

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“…The vulnerability of people to heatwave events is strongly associated with age (Meade et al 2020 ; Jiao et al 2020 ; Ma et al 2021 ). In particular, the elderly people are more vulnerable to heat-related health risks than young people at the same thermal exposure levels (Chen et al 2015 ; Lee et al 2018 ).…”

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Determination of thermal sensation levels for Koreans based on perceived temperature and climate chamber experiments with hot and humid settings

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People perceive thermal sensation differently despite the same temperature value of thermal comfort index depending on various factors such as climate, culture, and physiological characteristics. The use of the thermal comfort index without optimization may lead to biases in assessment of thermal stress and sensation. This study aims to derive the perceived temperature (PT) ranges of thermal sensation levels related to heat stress for Koreans. The experiments were designed using a controlled environmental chamber to derive the PT ranges and were performed with subjects who are residents of Seoul, South Korea. The experiments were carried out in the summers of 2017 and 2018, and the thermal sensation votes were surveyed from 19 subjects whose mean age, height, weight, and body mass index were 22.5 years, 171 cm, 72 kg, and 23 kg⋅m−2, respectively. The derived PT ranges for Koreans led to a better performance than the reference PT ranges for Germans based on the results of validation. The thresholds of ‘Warm,’ ‘Hot,’ and ‘Very hot’ thermal sensation classes for Koreans were 28 °C, 36 °C, and 43 °C, respectively: higher than those for Germans. The results indicate that Koreans may have higher heat resistance or lower heat sensitivity than Germans.

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Determination of thermal sensation levels for Koreans based on perceived temperature and climate chamber experiments with hot and humid settings

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“…Unlike indoor behavior, which is less affected by the overall environment and climate, outdoor behaviors are highly associated with climate situations, among which both objective and subjective influencing processes should be considered. Based on the same outdoor conditions, people's thermal feelings can differ due to individual, physical, social, and psychological differences (37,57,68,119,143). Psychological impacts of one's perception of environmental features were found to affect thermal comfort and acceptability.…”

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“…Among all types of behaviors, specific movements have been less studied; only a few studies investigated walking (54,55) and sitting (56)(57)(58)(59). By comparison, the studies focused more on thermal comfort and climate conditions (60)(61)(62)(63)(64)(65)(66)(67)(68)(69)(70)(71)(72).…”

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A Systematic Review of Objective Factors Influencing Behavior in Public Open Spaces

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Song

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Front. Public Health

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As a significant part of outdoor built-environment, public open spaces are closely associated with people's daily lives. Studies of outdoor behavior in these spaces can shed light on users' environmental perceptions and contribute to the promotion of physiological and psychological health. Many recent studies are case studies focused where observations, surveys and interviews have been conducted to understand the factors influencing people's behavior on one or few sites or city environments. There have been few reviews related to this topic, and none have been based on the systematic understanding of influencing factors. This paper presents a systematic review of interactions between behavior and the built environment in public open spaces, and highlights the impacts of diverse and objective influencing factors. Followed the rules of PRISMA method (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses), 109 papers published in 2000–2021 were selected and reviewed. The distribution of the studied interactions is analyzed, and the impacts of four distinct factors: personal background, location and context, environmental component, and climate stimuli, are extracted, categorized, and specified. Moreover, outdoor health benefits are discussed based on which, crucial factors that require emphasis after the outbreak of COVID-19 are identified. Throughout this paper, behavioral influencing processes, including objective influencing factors, subjective feedback, and the relationships involved, are considered to provide a comprehensive picture. With the robust classification of existing factors, architects, urban designers, policy makers and fellow researches could be easier to get a more comprehensive trend from the past. This paper also provides guidance for future research, especially given that COVID-19 has created huge changes to outdoor needs and customary behavior.Systematic Review Registration:http://www.prisma-statement.org/.

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“…A literature finds that behavioural response to optimum thermal environment is different according to age and activity types [1]. Among all the users of outdoor space, the elderly group is observed as dominant user group compared with other age groups [2]. However, most existing studies address the outdoor thermal comfort issues based on the response of the young adults [3,4].…”

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Assessment on the expectation for built environment usage and its influencing factors during the pandemic

Jiao

Liu²,

Xie³

2022

E3S Web Conf.

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A vital question of how citizens expect to use the built environment is not fully addressed. This study aims to contribute to this question from the indoor and outdoor usage expectation. The potential influencing factors are examined via survey along with the meteorological data obtained from weather bureau. This study provides that the current location and the duration of indoor-stay serve as the influencing factors of the indoor and outdoor usage expectation. The indoor and outdoor usage expectation has an obvious influence on the thermal sensitivity of thermal environment. People who expect to use the outdoor environment showed the least thermal sensitivity, 42.3% weaker than those who do not expect to use. These findings help providing further understanding of the citizens’ thermal expectation and their thermal responses during the post-pandemic period.

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How to design comfortable open spaces for the elderly? Implications of their thermal perceptions in an urban park

Cited by 102 publications

References 70 publications

Determination of thermal sensation levels for Koreans based on perceived temperature and climate chamber experiments with hot and humid settings

Determination of thermal sensation levels for Koreans based on perceived temperature and climate chamber experiments with hot and humid settings

A Systematic Review of Objective Factors Influencing Behavior in Public Open Spaces

Assessment on the expectation for built environment usage and its influencing factors during the pandemic

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