Exploring Occupant Behavior in Buildings (eBook, PDF)

Methods and Challenges
Redaktion: Wagner, Andreas; Dong, Bing; O'Brien, William

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

First of its kind to explore the multi-faceted topic of occupant behavior research using perspectives from architectural design, building physics, psychology, and social science

Provides a fundamental basis on topics such as research methods and approaches and sensors, data acquisition, and data management, while applying them directly to the occupant research

Full of illustrative examples, lessons learned, case studies, and recommended best practice, from the authors' extensive personal experience and from the literature

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319614649
• Artikelnr.: 52941051

Autorenporträt

Andreas Wagner is a professor of Building Physics and Building Services at the Faculty of Architecture and leads the Building Science Group at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. William O'Brien is an associate professor and program advisor on Architectural Conservation and Sustainability Engineering at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Bing Dong is an assistant professor and head of the Built Environment Science & Technology Lab at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.- Occupancy and occupants' actions.- General approach to research design.- Introduction to assess occupant behavior.- Sensing devices and data acquisition.- In-situ occupant monitoring.- Laboratory-based occupant studies.- Surveys and interviews.- Validation and ground truths.- Occupant data management.- Ethics and privacy.- Conclusions and outlook.