TY - JOUR
T1 - Office occupants as active actors in assessing and informing comfort
T2 - a context-embedded comfort assessment in indoor environmental quality investigations
AU - Romero Herrera, N.A.
AU - Doolaard, Jantien
AU - Guerra-Santin, O.
AU - Jaskiewicz, Tomasz
AU - Keyson, David V.
PY - 2020/1/2
Y1 - 2020/1/2
N2 - The energy and building research community acknowledges the importance of including occupants' wellbeing in the evaluation of building energy performance. Particularly in office buildings, occupants' comfort assessment is not yet a common practice, partially due to the shortcomings of the comfort assessment activities. Contextual factors such as the organizational culture, occupants' personality traits and emotional states, and the building and research measurement infrastructures do interact with occupants' motivation to report and influence their actual reporting behaviour. By means of an in situ mixed method approach combining real-world research and user-centric methods, this study investigates the impact of a reporting-based comfort assessment. Two buildings, representing different organizational cultures, were selected to study the influence of reporting behaviour on comfort assessment. The buildings were equipped with innovative indoor climate monitoring and in situ comfort reporting infrastructure and 2-week field studies were conducted in both buildings. By discussing results from these studies, this paper contributes to the development of building research methodologies of indoor climate and comfort assessment by providing practical experience in embedding comfort reporting behaviour in the analysis of comfort assessment. A contextual typology of reporting behaviour is introduced and its implications regarding the reliability and validity of comfort reporting techniques are discussed.
AB - The energy and building research community acknowledges the importance of including occupants' wellbeing in the evaluation of building energy performance. Particularly in office buildings, occupants' comfort assessment is not yet a common practice, partially due to the shortcomings of the comfort assessment activities. Contextual factors such as the organizational culture, occupants' personality traits and emotional states, and the building and research measurement infrastructures do interact with occupants' motivation to report and influence their actual reporting behaviour. By means of an in situ mixed method approach combining real-world research and user-centric methods, this study investigates the impact of a reporting-based comfort assessment. Two buildings, representing different organizational cultures, were selected to study the influence of reporting behaviour on comfort assessment. The buildings were equipped with innovative indoor climate monitoring and in situ comfort reporting infrastructure and 2-week field studies were conducted in both buildings. By discussing results from these studies, this paper contributes to the development of building research methodologies of indoor climate and comfort assessment by providing practical experience in embedding comfort reporting behaviour in the analysis of comfort assessment. A contextual typology of reporting behaviour is introduced and its implications regarding the reliability and validity of comfort reporting techniques are discussed.
KW - In situ and mixed comfort measurement
KW - building occupants’ reporting behaviour
KW - indoor environmental quality assessment
KW - indoor sensing platform
KW - mixed methods research
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85049627119&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/17512549.2018.1488620
DO - 10.1080/17512549.2018.1488620
M3 - Article
SN - 1751-2549
VL - 14
SP - 41
EP - 65
JO - Advances in Building Energy Research
JF - Advances in Building Energy Research
IS - 1
ER -