International Workshop on Implications of Occupant Behavior for Building Design and Operation: Now and the Future

1558853 P.I.：Dong，Bing该奖项部分支持了建筑设计和运营中居住者行为影响的国际研讨会：现在和未来。本次研讨会将于2016年4月2日在奥地利维也纳科技大学举行。随着建筑系统变得越来越复杂，人们在建筑物中花费的时间越来越多，建筑物中的占用行为正在成为一个重要的研究课题，这使得占用行为成为建筑物能耗的主要影响因素之一。占用行为是指空间或建筑物中的占用存在和数量，以及人与建筑物的交互，例如打开/关闭窗户，百叶窗和打开/关闭照明，以及占用者偏好，例如热和照明舒适度。研究建筑物中的占用行为的挑战是：（a）占用行为在本质上是随机且复杂的;（B）隐私问题使得数据收集困难;以及（c）监测占用行为依赖于成本相对较高的各种传感器。居住行为引起的建筑环境变化也会对居住者的生理和心理产生影响。到目前为止，已经通过模拟和现场研究评估了基于占用行为的应用的潜在节能。然而，目前大多数研究都是个案研究，没有系统和可扩展的方法。此外，现有的建筑基础设施阻碍了基于占用行为的行业产品和应用的开发，这将是讨论的主题之一。占用行为研究的最终目标是以均匀的方式改进建筑设计和运营，以实现下一代节能建筑。本次研讨会的目的是确定现有的占用行为研究的研究差距，包括障碍是什么，需要从学术研究和行业，并确定未来的研究方向。讨论的主题包括：（1）建筑物中占用存在的建模和仿真;（2）人与建筑物的相互作用;（3）基于占用行为的工业应用。该讲习班的目标是：（a）透过圆桌讨论，增进对建筑科学、工程及电脑物理系统的一般认识;（B）透过小组介绍及深入的技术讨论，增进对建筑环境占用行为研究方法发展的认识;（c）为机械、土木及电脑工程学院和研究生提供一个合作平台，让他们交流意见;（d）提供未来的研究方向，并鼓励更多学院和学生参与该等研究;（e）就未来具能源效益的建筑物的更佳建筑设计和运作提供见解。

1558853 P.I.: Dong, BingThis award is in partial support of the International Workshop on Implications of Occupant Behavior for Building Design and Operation: Now and the Future. This workshop will be held on April 2, 2016 at the University of Technology, Vienna, Austria. Occupancy behavior in buildings is becoming an important topic of research as building systems become more sophisticated and people spend more time in buildings, making occupancy behavior one of the leading influencers of energy consumption in buildings. Occupancy behavior refers to occupancy presence and numbers in spaces or a building, and human-building interactions, such as opening/closing windows, blinds, and turning on/off lighting, as well as occupant preferences, such as thermal and lighting comfort. The challenges to study occupancy behavior in buildings are: (a) occupancy behavior is stochastic and complex in nature; (b) privacy issues make data collection difficult; and (c) monitoring occupancy behavior relies on various sensors with relatively high costs. The changes of built environment caused by occupancy behavior also affect occupants physiologically and psychologically. To this date, potential energy savings from occupancy behavior based applications have been evaluated both by simulations and in field studies. However, most current studies are individual and case by case, without a systematic and scalable approach. In addition, existing building infrastructure impedes the development of occupancy behavior-based industry products and applications, which will be among the topics of discussion.The ultimate goal of occupancy behavior research is to improve building design and operation in a homogeneous way for next generation energy efficient buildings. The objective of this workshop is to identify the research gaps in existing occupancy behavior research including what the obstacles are and what is needed from both academic research and industry, and the identification of future research directions. The list of topics to be discussed includes: (1) Modeling and simulation of occupancy presence in buildings; (2) Human-building interactions (3) Occupancy behavior based applications in industry. This workshop is targeted to: (a) advance the general knowledge of building science, engineering and cyber-physical systems through round-table discussions; (b) advance the knowledge of methodological development in occupancy behavior research for built environment through panel presentations and intensive technical discussions; (c) provide a collaborative platform for mechanical, civil and computer engineering faculties and graduate students to exchange ideas; (d) provide future research directions and encourage more involvement of faculties and students to participate in those research; (e) provide insights on better building design and operation for future energy efficient buildings.