The underlying linkage between personal control and thermal comfort: Psychological or physical effects?

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 111, Issue , 2016, Pages 56-63

  Luo, Maohui ^a   Cao, Bin ^a,b   Ji, Wenjie ^a   Ouyang, Qin ^a   Lin, Borong ^a   Zhu, Yingxin ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive comfort theory; Perceived control; Psychological adaptation; Thermal comfort

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; THERMAL COMFORT;

ADAPTIVE COMFORT; CHAMBER EXPERIMENTS; COMFORT PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL SYSTEM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ADAPTATIONS; PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS; SPACE CONDITIONING SYSTEMS; THERMAL CONDITION;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84948399075     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2015.11.004     Document Type: Article

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