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

1558853 P.I.：董，兵该奖项是对居住行为对建筑设计和运营的影响：现在和未来国际研讨会的部分支持。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，人们在建筑中花费的时间越来越多，建筑中的居住行为正成为一个重要的研究课题，使居住行为成为影响建筑能耗的主要因素之一。占用行为是指空间或建筑中的占用情况和数量，以及人与建筑的交互，例如打开/关闭窗户、百叶窗和打开/关闭照明，以及居住者的偏好，例如热和照明舒适性。研究建筑物中的占用行为面临的挑战是：(A)占用行为本质上是随机和复杂的；(B)隐私问题使数据收集变得困难；以及(C)监视占用行为依赖于各种传感器，成本相对较高。居住行为引起的建筑环境变化也会对居住者产生生理和心理上的影响。到目前为止，基于占用行为的应用程序的潜在能源节约已经通过模拟和现场研究进行了评估。然而，目前的大多数研究都是个别的和个案的，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居住行为的行业产品和应用的发展，这将是讨论的主题之一。居住行为研究的最终目标是为下一代节能建筑改善建筑设计和运营。本次研讨会的目的是确定现有居住行为研究中的研究空白，包括哪些障碍是什么，以及学术研究和行业需要什么，并确定未来的研究方向。将讨论的主题清单包括：(1)建筑物中占用存在的建模和模拟；(2)人与建筑的交互；(3)基于占用行为的工业应用。这次工作坊的目标是：(A)通过圆桌讨论，增进对建筑科学、工程和数字物理系统的一般知识；(B)通过小组演讲和密集的技术讨论，增进关于建筑环境居住行为研究方法发展的知识；(C)为机械、土木工程和计算机工程学院和研究生提供一个交流意见的合作平台；(D)提供未来的研究方向，并鼓励学院和学生更多地参与这些研究；(E)为未来的节能建筑提供更好的建筑设计和运营的见解。

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.