Exploring Occupant Behavior in Buildings: Methods and Challenges - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3319870866 ISBN 13: 9783319870861

Publisher: Springer, 2018

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

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 challengesin conducting occupant studies, with chapters on ground truth, ethics and privacy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319870866
• ISBN 13: 9783319870861
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 338
• Editor: Wagner Andreas, O’Brien William, Dong Bing