Exploring Occupant Behavior in Buildings: Methods and Challenges

ISBN 10: 3319870866 / ISBN 13: 9783319870861

Published by Springer, 2018

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pp. 340.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Exploring Occupant Behavior in Buildings: Methods and Challenges
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319870866
• ISBN 13: 9783319870861
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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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 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.