Incorporation of Future Building Operating Conditions into the Modeling of Building–Microclimate Interaction: A Feasibility Approach

Kalvelage, Kelly; Passe, Ulrike; Krejci, Caroline C.; Dorneich, Michael C.

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“…Task categories contain the simulation-required information that can explain how and why occupants might interact with the building, and include number of occupants, performance location, workload demand, and environment parameters. The analyze task category performed at 8:15 AM by the occupant will be used to demonstrate how the task list and description are used in an agent-based model (Kalvelage, Dorneich, Passe, & Krejci, 2016).…”

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Using Human Factors to Establish Occupant Task Lists for Office Building Simulations

Kalvelage

Dorneich

2016

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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The purpose of this research is to establish an in-depth understanding of task-related occupant behaviors to serve as the basis for the design of an occupant-building interaction interface. Building simulations are frequently used to design buildings and predict energy performance. Yet, all of these assumptions are related to occupant behavior and interactions with the building. In an occupant-controlled environment, an understanding of the occupant decision-making process must be represented in the simulation task lists. Current task lists assume general occupant behaviors based on averages, and lack the details required for this understanding. This paper looks to strike a balance between simplicity and complexity in the generation of task lists to establish a process for developing an understanding of occupant behavior at a greater level of detail than current practice. A contextual task analysis questionnaire characterizes occupant behavior to provide the link between the building, occupant, and task. Generation of a sample task list demonstrates how a detailed understanding of task-related occupant behaviors can be effectively used as the basis of an occupant-building control scheme.

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Using Human Factors to Establish Occupant Task Lists for Office Building Simulations

Kalvelage

Dorneich

2016

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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A Comprehensive Survey about Thermal Comfort under the IoT Paradigm: Is Crowdsensing the New Horizon?

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Ramallo-González

Skarmeta-Gómez

2020

Sensors

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This paper presents a review of technologies under the paradigm 4.0 applied to the study of the thermal comfort and, implicitly, energy efficiency. The research is based on the analysis of the Internet of Things (IoT) literature, presenting a comparison among several approaches adopted. The central objective of the research is to outline the path that has been taken throughout the last decade towards a people-centric approach, discussing how users switched from being passive receivers of IoT services to being an active part of it. Basing on existing studies, authors performed what was a necessary and unprecedented grouping of the IoT applications to the thermal comfort into three categories: the thermal comfort studies with IoT hardware, in which the approach focuses on physical devices, the mimicking of IoT sensors and comfort using Building Simulation Models, based on the dynamic modelling of the thermal comfort through IoT systems, and Crowdsensing, a new concept in which people can express their sensation proactively using IoT devices. Analysing the trends of the three categories, the results showed that Crowdsensing has a promising future in the investigation through the IoT, although some technical steps forward are needed to achieve a satisfactory application to the thermal comfort matter.

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Incorporation of Future Building Operating Conditions into the Modeling of Building–Microclimate Interaction: A Feasibility Approach

Cited by 2 publications

References 16 publications

Using Human Factors to Establish Occupant Task Lists for Office Building Simulations

Using Human Factors to Establish Occupant Task Lists for Office Building Simulations

A Comprehensive Survey about Thermal Comfort under the IoT Paradigm: Is Crowdsensing the New Horizon?

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