Multi-domain occupant comfort experimentation framework in different climate zones

拟议的项目建立了Concordia大学和开罗美国大学研究人员之间的合作，在不同气候区同时进行多领域乘员舒适性实验。这些实验将通过一系列可重复的实验来研究各种室内环境参数对居住者舒适感的相互关系，这些实验需要1）测试彩色光对居住者热响应的影响，以及2）测试使用皮肤温度和心率变异性作为人体热感觉和舒适感的预测因子的可行性。实验将涉及在每个地点招募的测试对象，这提供了一个独特的机会来调查背景设置和人口特征的影响，特别是使用相对较少调查的全球南部温暖气候的数据。将使用热感知问卷和生理测量（如皮肤温度和心率变异性）评估热反应。因此，这项研究的结果将为科学界仍在研究的多领域乘员舒适性这一复杂课题提供新的见解。它还将有助于申请人在国际能源署（IEA），建筑物和社区能源（EBC），附件79中关于以居住者为中心的建筑设计和运营的研究，因此它将发展加拿大在这一主题上的实力和领导地位。了解创造舒适和健康的室内环境的因素也将为加拿大带来巨大的好处，特别是加拿大人90%以上的时间都在室内，因此改善舒适度可以显着提高他们的健康和生产力。

The proposed project establishes a collaboration between researchers at Concordia University and the American University in Cairo to conduct simultaneous multi-domain occupant comfort experiments in different climate zones. These experiments will investigate the interrelationship between various indoor environmental parameters on perceived occupant comfort through a series of replicable experiments that entail 1) testing the influence of colored light on occupants' thermal responses, and 2) testing the feasibility of using skin temperature and heart rate variability as predictors for human thermal sensation and consequently comfort. Experiments will involve recruited test subjects in each location which provides a unique opportunity to investigate the influence of contextual settings and population characteristics, particularly using data from warmer climates in the global south which is relatively less investigated. Thermal response will be assessed using both thermal perception questionnaires and physiological measurements such as skin temperature, and heart rate variability. Therefore, outcomes of this research will provide new insights on the complex topic of multi-domain occupant comfort which is still being investigated within the scientific community. It will also contribute to the applicant's research within the International Energy Agency (IEA), Energy in Buildings and Communities (EBC), Annex 79 on occupant-centric building design and operations, thus it will develop Canadian strength and leadership on this topic. Understanding the factors that create a comfortable and healthy indoor environment will also provide tremendous benefits to Canada, especially as Canadians spend more than 90% of their time indoors, thus improving comfort can significantly increase their wellbeing and productivity.