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Personalized environmental control systems (PECS): A systematic review of performance evaluation methods for thermal comfort, air quality and energy

Dolaana Khovalyg, Andrew James Sonta, Matteo Favero

Personalized Environmental Control Systems (PECS) can improve both comfort and energy efficiency by shifting indoor climate control toward localized, occupant-tailored comfort, unlike conventional systems that condition entire, partly unoccupied spaces uni ...

2025

Mind the Hazard: Modeling and Interpreting Comfort with Personalized Sensing

Andrew James Sonta, Matteo Favero, Yufei Zhang

Recent advances in personalized sensing and comfort feedback have spurred the development of data-driven comfort models tailored to individual needs. However, because current models treat sequential comfort feedback independently, they are subject to unsta ...

ACM - Association for Computing Machinery2024

Ten questions concerning statistical data analysis in human-centric buildings research: A focus on thermal comfort investigations

Andrew James Sonta, Matteo Favero, Giorgia Chinazzo

Given the large amount of time we spend indoors, designing and operating buildings that are safe, comfortable, and conducive to productivity and well-being is essential. To achieve this goal, in the past decades, research has been conducted to investigate ...

Elsevier BV2024

Predicting individual thermal preferences in an office: Assessing the performance of mixed-effects models

Matteo Favero

Multiple studies suggested that existing thermal comfort models inadequately predict occupants' individual thermal preferences. Personalised comfort models offer an alternative to conventional comfort models aiming to forecast individual's thermal preferen ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2024

Ten questions concerning occupant-centric control and operations

Matteo Favero

Occupant-Centric Control and Operation (OCC) represents a transformative approach to building management, integrating sensing of indoor environmental quality, occupant presence, and occupant-building interactions. These data are then utilized to optimize b ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2023

Quality criteria for multi-domain studies in the indoor environment: Critical review towards research guidelines and recommendations

Dolaana Khovalyg, Verena Marie Barthelmes, Matteo Favero, Giorgia Chinazzo, Mandana Sarey Khanie

The perception, physiology, behavior, and performance of building occupants are influenced by multi-domain exposures: the simultaneous presence of multiple environmental stimuli, i.e., visual, thermal, acoustic, and air quality. Despite being extensive, th ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

The Role of Occupants in Buildings’ Energy Performance Gap: Myth or Reality?

Dolaana Khovalyg, Verena Marie Barthelmes, Matteo Favero

Buildings’ expected (projected, simulated) energy use frequently does not match actual observations. This is commonly referred to as the energy performance gap. As such, many factors can contribute to the disagreement between expectations and observations. ...

2021

Review of multi-domain approaches to indoor environmental perception and behaviour

Verena Marie Barthelmes, Matteo Favero

Building occupants are continuously exposed to multiple indoor environmental stimuli, including thermal, visual, acoustic, and air quality related factors. Moreover, personal and contextual aspects can be regarded as additional domains influencing occupant ...

2020