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

Schweiker, Marcel; Abdul-Zahra, Amar; André, Maíra; Al‐Atrash, Farah; Al-Khatri, Hanan; Alprianti, Rea Risky; Alsaad, Hayder; Amin, Rucha; Ampatzi, Eleni; Arsano, Alpha Yacob; Montazami, Azadeh; Azar, Elie; Bannazadeh, Bahareh; Batagarawa, Amina; Becker, Susanne; Buonocore, Carolina; Cao, Bin; Choi, Joon-Ho; Chun, Chungyoon; Daanen, H.A.M.; Damiati, Siti Aisyah; Daniel, Lyrian; Vecchi, Renata De; Dhaka, Shivraj; Domínguez-Amarillo, Samuel; Dudkiewicz, Edyta; Edappilly, Lakshmi Prabha; Fernández-Agüera, Jésica; Folkerts, Mireille; Frijns, Ajh Arjan; Gaona, Gabriel; Garg, Vishal; Gauthier, Stephanie; Jabbari, Shahla Ghaffari; Djamila, Harimi; Hellwig, Runa Tabea; Huebner, Gesche M.; Jin, Quan; Jowkar, Mina; Kania, Renate; Kim, Jungsoo; King, Nelson; Kingma, Boris; Koerniawan, Mochamad Donny; Kolařík, Jakub; Kumar, Shailendra; Kwok, Alison G.; Lamberts, Roberto; Laska, Marta; Lee, M. C. Jeffrey; Lee, Yoon-Hee; Lindermayr, Vanessa; Mahaki, Mohammadbagher; Marcel-Okafor, Udochukwu; Marín-Restrepo, Laura; Marquardsen, Anna; Martellotta, Francesco; Mathur, Jyotirmay; McGill, Grainne; Miño-Rodríguez, Isabel; Mou, Di; Moujalled, Bassam; Nakajima, Mia; Ng, Edward; Okafor, Marcellinus; Olweny, Mark R. O.; Ouyang, Wanlu; Abreu, Ana Lígia Papst de; Pérez-Fargallo, Alexis; Rajapaksha, I; Ramos, Greici; Saif, Rashid; Reinhart, Christoph; Rivera, Ma. Isabel; Salmanzadeh, Mazyar; Schakib‐Ekbatan, Karin; Schiavon, Stefano; Shooshtarian, Salman; Shukuya, Masanori; Soebarto, Veronica; SUHENDRI, Suhendri; Tahsildoost, Mohammad; Tartarini, Federico; Teli, Despoina; Tewari, Priyam; Thapa, Samar; Trebilcock, Maureen; Trojan, Jörg; Tukur, Ruqayyatu B.; Voelker, Conrad; Yam, Yeung; Yang, Linlin; Zapata-Lancaster, Gabriela; Zhai, Yongchao; Zhu, Yingxin; Zomorodian, Zahra Sadat

doi:10.1038/s41597-019-0272-6

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“…Firstly, satisfaction with the existing energy systems (Sovacool et al 2021). This suggests that people lack information and experience of comfort that new energy technologies may provide (Schweiker et al 2019). Secondly, resistance to changing energy technology.…”

Section: People Sentiment Toward Different Energy Sourcesmentioning

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Perceptions of GHG emissions and renewable energy sources in Europe, Australia and the USA

Zhang

Abbas

Iqbal

2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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People’s sentiments and perceptions of greenhouse gas emission and renewable energy are important information to understand their reaction to the planned mitigation policy. Therefore, this research analyzes people’s perceptions of greenhouse gas emissions and their preferences for renewable energy resources using a sample of Twitter data. We first identify themes of discussion using semantic text similarity and network analysis. Next, we measure people’s interest in renewable energy resources based on the mentioned rate in Twitter and search interest in Google trends. Then, we measure people’s sentiment toward these resources and compare the interest with sentiments to identify opportunities for policy improvement. The results indicate a minor influence of governmental assemblies on Twitter discourses compared to a very high influence of two renewable energy providers amounts to more than 40% of the tweeting activities related to renewable energy. The search interest analysis shows a slight shift in people’s interest in favor of renewable energy. The interest in geothermal energy is decreasing while interest in biomass energy is increasing. The sentiment analysis shows that biomass energy has the highest positive sentiments while solar and wind energy have higher interest. Solar and wind energy are found to be the two most promising sources for the future energy transition. Our study implies that governments should practice a higher influence on promoting awareness of the environment and converging between people’s interests and feasible energy solutions. We also advocate Twitter as a source for collecting real-time data about social preferences for environmental policy input.

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Section: People Sentiment Toward Different Energy Sourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Perceptions of GHG emissions and renewable energy sources in Europe, Australia and the USA

Zhang

Abbas

Iqbal

2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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“…Nonetheless, indoor and outdoor thermal comfort, especially heat perception, has attracted more scientific attention recently. Researchers state that thermal perception is highly subjective: it varies due to the biological adaptability of the human body [41] and is related to individual physiological and psychological factors [42,43,44]. In this study, we focus on measurable thermophysical indicators, but it is important to note that thermal comfort is an interdisciplinary research field that also ranges toward difficult-to-measure architectural, social, psychological, or medical design aspects up to cultural concepts such as the "invisible design" by Lucius Burckhardt [45] or behavioral change as a sufficiency strategy for urban sustainability.…”

Section: Thermal Parametermentioning

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Urban morphology as a key parameter for mitigating urban heat? – A literature review

Schmidt

2024

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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More frequent and intense heat waves, especially in urban centers, represent a growing challenge for urban designers and building planners. In the last five years, extensive research has been undertaken on the relation between urban form, including density, and urban heat phenomena. Dense urban configurations are often considered central drivers of hot microclimates. However, less dense cities easily cause other ecological (e.g. land consumption), functional (public mobility), and socioeconomic (social diversity) problems. Consequently, the current panoply of recommended heat mitigation and sustainability measures constitutes an unclear basis for strategic planning decisions. Thus, this study examines the literature on urban morphology in relation to urban heat events. Around 800 scientific articles and studies are categorized regarding the applied methodology, the studied geographic location, the observed urban form parameters, and the examined thermal parameter. Most identified literature uses traditional field measurement, remote sensing, numerical simulation, or a combination. Air temperature and land surface temperature are the most observed thermal parameters, while the growing number of studies that focus on human outdoor thermal comfort is highly relevant for effective heat mitigation and adaptation. This study suggests that from a scientific point of view, urban morphology measures do not principally carry a paramount role in heat mitigation compared to other aspects, such as vegetation or materialization. Current planning approaches for climate-resilient cities are highly case-specific, where no generally applicable rules or effective recipes regarding urban built form are available.

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“…The CO2 concentration and symptomatology of the students in [15] have also been analyzed for the same climate and typology. A version of this questionnaire adapted to schools has been adapted in [53].…”

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Overheating in Schools: Factors Determining Children’s Perceptions of Overall Comfort Indoors

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Climate change is raising the length and intensity of the warm season in the academic year, with a very significant impact on indoor classroom conditions. Increasingly frequent episodes of extreme heat are having an adverse effect on school activities, whose duration may have to be shortened or pace slackened. Fitting facilities with air conditioning does not always solve the problem and may even contribute to discomfort or worsen health conditions, often as a result of insufficient ventilation. Users have traditionally adopted measures to adapt to these situations, particularly in warm climates where mechanical refrigeration is absent or unavailable. Implementation of such measures or of natural ventilation is not always possible or their efficacy is limited in school environments, however. Such constraints, especially in a context where reasonable energy use and operating costs are a primary concern, inform the need to identify the factors that contribute to users’ perceptions of comfort. This study deploys a post-occupancy strategy combined with participatory action to empower occupants as agents actively engaging in their own comfort. It addresses user-identified classroom comfort parameters potentially applicable in the design and layout of thermally suitable spaces meriting occupant acceptance.

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

Cited by 26 publications

References 19 publications

Perceptions of GHG emissions and renewable energy sources in Europe, Australia and the USA

Perceptions of GHG emissions and renewable energy sources in Europe, Australia and the USA

Urban morphology as a key parameter for mitigating urban heat? – A literature review

Overheating in Schools: Factors Determining Children’s Perceptions of Overall Comfort Indoors

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