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Wahhaj Ahmed, Baqer Al-Ramadan, Muhammad Asif and Zulfikar Adamu
Energy and environmental challenges are a major concern across the world and the urban residential building sector, being one of the main stakeholders in energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, needs to be more energy efficient and reduce carbon...
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Yuhwan Kim, Chang-Ho Choi, Chang-Young Park and Seonghyun Park
In today?s society, where people spend over 90% of their time indoors, indoor air quality (IAQ) is crucial for sustaining human life. However, as various indoor activities such as cooking generate diverse types of pollutants in indoor spaces, IAQ has eme...
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Katarina Bäcklund, Marco Molinari and Per Lundqvist
Energy-intense activities and the unpredictable and complex behavior of building occupants lead to an increase in building energy demand. It is, therefore, crucial to study underlying factors for building energy demand related to the users. Higher educat...
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Yiwen Jian, Shuwei Liu, Mengmeng Bian, Zijia Liu and Shengjie Liu
To date, few attempts have been made to associate air conditioning behavior with environmental conditions and the occupants? thermal sensations and physiological states simultaneously. In this study, a series of experiments were conducted in a climate ch...
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Luca Zaniboni and Rossano Albatici
Current literature and guidelines on sustainable design often debate on the advantages of natural ventilation (NV) and mechanical ventilation (MV) on indoor environment and energy consumption. The present systematic review explores the existing literatur...
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Farah Nur Arina Baharudin, Nor Azlina Ab. Aziz, Mohamad Razwan Abdul Malek, Anith Khairunnisa Ghazali and Zuwairie Ibrahim
A comfortable indoor environment contributes to a better quality of life and wellbeing for its occupants. The indoor temperature, lighting, and air quality are the main controlling factors of user comfort levels. The optimum control of the lighting, air ...
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Mohammad Nyme Uddin, Hsi-Hsien Wei, Hung Lin Chi and Meng Ni
Energy consumption in buildings depends on several physical factors, including its physical characteristics, various building services systems/appliances used, and the outdoor environment. However, the occupants? behavior that determines and regulates th...
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Mengda Jia, Ravi Srinivasan, Robert J. Ries, Gnana Bharathy and Nathan Weyer
Occupant behaviors are one of the most dominant factors that influence building energy use. Understanding the influences from building occupants can promote the development of energy?efficient buildings. This paper quantifies the impact of different occu...
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Johannes Ossig, Stephanie Cramer and Klaus Bengler
In the human-centered research on automated driving, it is common practice to describe the vehicle behavior by means of terms and definitions related to non-automated driving. However, some of these definitions are not suitable for this purpose. This pap...
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Qiao Yan, Xiaoqian Liu, Xiaoping Deng, Wei Peng and Guiqing Zhang
Prediction of energy use behaviors is a necessary prerequisite for designing personalized and scalable energy efficiency programs. The energy use behaviors of office occupants are different from those of residential occupants and have not yet been studie...
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