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TY - GEN
T1 - Understanding adaptive thermal comfort
T2 - new directions for Ubicomp
AU - Clear, Adrian
AU - Morley, Janine
AU - Hazas, Mike
AU - Friday, Adrian
AU - Bates, Oliver
N1 - © ACM, 2013. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in UbiComp '13 Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2493432.2493451
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In many parts of the world, mechanical heating and cooling is used to regulate indoor climates, with the aim of maintaining a uniform temperature. Achieving this is energy-intensive, since large indoor spaces must be constantly heated or cooled, and the difference to the outdoor temperature is large. This paper starts from the premise that comfort is not delivered to us by the indoor environment, but is instead something that is pursued as a normal part of daily life, through a variety of means. Based on a detailed study of four university students over several months, we explore how Ubicomp technologies can help create a more sustainable reality where people are more active in pursuing and maintaining their thermal comfort, and environments are less tightly controlled and less energy-intensive, and we outline areas for future research in this domain.
AB - In many parts of the world, mechanical heating and cooling is used to regulate indoor climates, with the aim of maintaining a uniform temperature. Achieving this is energy-intensive, since large indoor spaces must be constantly heated or cooled, and the difference to the outdoor temperature is large. This paper starts from the premise that comfort is not delivered to us by the indoor environment, but is instead something that is pursued as a normal part of daily life, through a variety of means. Based on a detailed study of four university students over several months, we explore how Ubicomp technologies can help create a more sustainable reality where people are more active in pursuing and maintaining their thermal comfort, and environments are less tightly controlled and less energy-intensive, and we outline areas for future research in this domain.
KW - interaction design
KW - thermal comfort
KW - heating
KW - cooling
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84885223078&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2493432.2493451
DO - 10.1145/2493432.2493451
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
AN - SCOPUS:84885223078
SN - 9781450317702
SP - 113
EP - 122
BT - UbiComp '13 Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international joint conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing
PB - ACM
CY - New York
ER -