"Why did the piggy bark?" Some effects of language and context on the interpretation of words used in scales of warmth and thermal preference

Proceedings of Conference: Air Conditioning and the Low Carbon Cooling Challenge - Windsor 2008 Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Humphreys, Michael A ^a,b  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ASHRAE scale; Meaning; Nicol scale; Rescaling; Translation

Indexed keywords

ASHRAE SCALE; MEANING; NEUTRAL TEMPERATURE; NICOL SCALE; OFFICE WORKERS; PREFERENCE SCALE; RELATIVE FREQUENCIES; RESCALING; SENSITIVITY TO TEMPERATURES;

AIR CONDITIONING; OFFICE BUILDINGS; SURVEYS; THERMAL COMFORT;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84860720128     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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