Exploring Occupant Behavior in Buildings: Methods and Challenges

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxviii Introduction (Andreas Wagner, William O’Brien, Bing Dong)....Pages 1-5 Occupancy and Occupants’ Actions (Marcel Schweiker, Salvatore Carlucci, Rune Korsholm Andersen, Bing Dong, William O’Brien)....Pages 7-38 Designing Research (David Shipworth, Gesche M. Huebner)....Pages 39-76 Sensing and Data Acquisition (Bing Dong, Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard, Marilena De Simone, H. Burak Gunay, William O’Brien, Dafni Mora et al.)....Pages 77-105 Introduction to Occupant Research Approaches (William O’Brien, Andreas Wagner, Julia K. Day)....Pages 107-127 In Situ Approaches to Studying Occupants (William O’Brien, Sara Gilani, H. Burak Gunay)....Pages 129-167 Laboratory Approaches to Studying Occupants (Andreas Wagner, Rune Korsholm Andersen, Hui Zhang, Richard de Dear, Marcel Schweiker, Edwin Goh et al.)....Pages 169-212 Survey and Interview Approaches to Studying Occupants (Julia K. Day)....Pages 213-238 Validation and Ground Truths (Da Yan, Chuang Wang, Xiaohang Feng, Bing Dong)....Pages 239-260 Structured Building Data Management: Ontologies, Queries, and Platforms (Ardeshir Mahdavi, Mahnameh Taheri, Matthias Schuss, Farhang Tahmasebi, Stefan Glawischnig)....Pages 261-286 Ethics and Privacy (Chien-fei Chen, Marcel Schweiker, Julia K. Day)....Pages 287-306 Concluding Remarks and Future Outlook (William O’Brien, Andreas Wagner, Bing Dong)....Pages 307-310