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Occupant Comfort

Occupant Comfort is a multidimensional performance indicator within building science that encompasses the physiological and psychological well-being of individuals in built environments, differentiated by its dependence on the spatial, thermal, luminous, acoustic, and indoor air quality conditions actively influenced by building design, operation, and certification standards.

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Thermal Environmental Conditions for Human Occupancy

Standard Ashrae · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1992 · 6.1K citations

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Developing an adaptive model of thermal comfort and preference

Richard de Dear, Gail Brager · eScholarship (California Digital Library) · 1998 · 1.9K citations · Full text

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Literature survey on how different factors influence human comfort in indoor environments

Monika Frontczak, Pawel Wargocki · Building and Environment · 2010 · 1.2K citations

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Comfort and thermal sensations and associated physiological responses at various ambient temperatures

A. P. Gagge, Jan A. J. Stolwijk, J. D. Hardy · Environmental Research · 1967 · 1.1K citations

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Occupant behavior modeling for building performance simulation: Current state and future challenges

Da Yan, William O’Brien, Tianzhen Hong et al. · Energy and Buildings · 2015 · 868 citations · Full text

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  1. RD
    Richard de Dear

    The University of Sydney, Australia

    27 publications · 4.6K citations

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  2. EA
    Edward Arens

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    20 publications · 1.9K citations

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  3. HB
    Hom Bahadur Rijal

    Tokyo City University, Japan

    17 publications · 1.4K citations

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  4. SS
    Stefano Schiavon

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    16 publications · 2.2K citations

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  5. TH
    Tianzhen Hong

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States

    15 publications · 2.8K citations

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Institutions

785

  1. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    29 h-index

    91 publications

    15.3K citations

  2. The University of Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    24 h-index

    49 publications

    4.6K citations

  3. Tsinghua University

    Beijing, China

    23 h-index

    87 publications

    11.7K citations

  4. Technical University of Denmark

    Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

    18 h-index

    45 publications

    6.8K citations

  5. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

    Berkeley, United States

    18 h-index

    38 publications

    5.3K citations

  6. Tokyo City University

    Tokyo, Japan

    17 h-index

    30 publications

    2.3K citations

  7. National University of Singapore

    Singapore, Singapore

    16 h-index

    43 publications

    2.7K citations

  8. Delft University of Technology

    Delft, The Netherlands

    16 h-index

    44 publications

    2.1K citations

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  1. Building and Environment

    185 publications · 17.6K citations

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  2. Energy and Buildings

    90 publications · 10.7K citations

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  3. Building Research & Information

    34 publications · 3.6K citations

    27

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  4. Indoor and Built Environment

    32 publications · 1.3K citations

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  5. eScholarship (California Digital Library)

    Repository · 24 publications · 3.9K citations

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