Indoor Environmental Quality and Occupant Comfort

• Other Authors: Wu, Yue (Editor), Liu, Zheming (Editor), Kong, Zhe (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: Technology: general issues; History of engineering & technology; state arousal level; visual comfort; daylight illumination; elderly persons; reading behavior; acoustic comfort; speech transmission index; speech intelligibility; open-plan office; thermal comfort; PMV-PPD; radiant floor; cooling; office buildings; fan coil; energy consumption; lighting design; lighting control system; HDRi luminance analysis; LabVIEW; energy saving; thermal environment; cold regions; university classroom; heating season; color psychology; hotel indoor environment; emotion; subjective evaluation; VR experiment; rural houses; winter; ventilation; waste heat recover; air quality; nursery; classrooms; vertical temperature difference; humidity; CO2; air stuffiness index; particle matter; illumination; noise level; elderly facility; in-between area; EEG; HRV; STAI; architectural scheme design; general demand analysis; Kano model; indoor navigation; system design; sunlight patterns; aperture design; immersive virtual reality; ECG; sky type; decoration style; text analysis; questionnaire survey; comparative study; China; blind older adults; nursing homes; acoustic environment; sound perception; aural diversity; inclusive design; COVID-19; classroom colour environment; college students' mental health; HAD scale; daylight simulation; atrium; corelighting; heritage retrofit; historical building; indoor environmental quality; view analysis; Nordic latitude; historical residential buildings; passive cooling; hotel interior spaces; high sound insulation; lightweight composite structure partition; sound transmission loss; annual daylighting performance; atrium design; parametric simulation; primary and secondary school; IEQ preferences; psychosocial preferences; twostep cluster analysis; study place; students' profiles; daylighting performance; terrace classrooms; interior space geometry; window geometry; severe cold regions; n/a
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The experience of a good indoor environment can result in positive perceptual outcomes, which is related to the occupant's well-being. Conversely, noise, uncomfortable temperatures and humidity, dim light, poor air quality, and pungent smells can compromise occupants' life quality, negativ...