Indoor Thermal Comfort

Dear Colleagues,

As the century begins, natural resources are under increasing pressure, threatening public health and development. As a result, the balance between man and nature has been disrupted, with climatic changes whose effects are starting to be irreversible. Due to the relationship between the quality of the indoor built environment and its energy demand, thermal comfort issues are still relevant in the disciplinary debate. This is also because the indoor environment has a potential impact on occupants' health and productivity, affecting their physical and psychological conditions.

To achieve a sustainable compromise in terms of comfort and energy requirements, several challenging questions must be answered with regard to design, technical, engineering, psychological, and physiological issues, and, finally, potential interactions with other IEQ issues.

This Special Issue invites scholars to contribute original research and review articles on innovative design, systems, and/or control domains that can enhance occupant comfort, work productivity, wellbeing in a built environment, and the integration of human factors in buildings energy performance.

Potential research topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Demand-response and smart technologies for high-performance buildings;
• Personalized comfort;
• Ergonomics of the built environment and the design of flexible spaces;
• Health, human performance, and productivity in the built environment;
• Human factors;
• Human physiological responses;
• Indoor environmental parameters (thermal, visual, aural, and olfactory comfort) in the context of energy-related issues;
• Innovative/sustainable design for human physiological benefits;
• Modelling;
• Occupants inter- and intra-individual differences for reducing inequalities;
• Post-occupancy evaluation and measurement;
• Urban microclimate and thermal comfort outdoor;
• Virtual or augmented reality in the built environment.

Prof. Dr. Francesca Romana d’Ambrosio
Prof. Dr. Boris Palella
Guest Editors

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