Overview
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
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book is the first to comprehensively cover research methods for building occupant behavior. As this is of growing importance for building design and for building performance optimization, the book aims to provide a sound scientific basis for experimental studies in this field. It introduces the reader to fundamental questions about the topic and unfolds the different fields related to occupant actions and comfort. This is followed by more general questions about developing an appropriate research method and experimental design. A comprehensive overview of sensors for monitoring environmental and also behavioral and action-related quantities helps to set up an experiment. In this context, different experimental environments and data collection methods (in-situ, laboratories, surveys) are introduced and discussed in terms of their suitability for the respective research question. Furthermore, data management and reporting is addressed. The book concludes with fundamental challenges in conducting occupant studies, with chapters on ground truth, ethics and privacy.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Exploring Occupant Behavior in Buildings
Book Subtitle: Methods and Challenges
Editors: Andreas Wagner, William O’Brien, Bing Dong
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61464-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61463-2Published: 08 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87086-1Published: 24 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61464-9Published: 27 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 310
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 58 illustrations in colour
Topics: Building Physics, HVAC, Research Methodology, Simulation and Modeling, Facility Management, Industrial and Organizational Psychology