Occupant Comfort and Well-Being

Dear Colleagues,

Building performance is critical for environmental sustainability and occupant environmental comfort and wellbeing. This has extensively impacted the growth of numerous environmental designs and technologies in modern architecture’s pursuit of high building performance. However, a lack of understanding of how the environment affects human responses could promote inefficient performance while the environmental comfort and satisfaction of a building’s occupants are compromised. To optimize a building configuration, numerous challenging questions must be answered with regard to design, technical, engineering, psychological, and physiological issues that are relevant to each individual’s comfort, health, and work productivity.

This Special Issue invites scholars to contribute original research and review articles on innovative design, systems, and/or control domains that can enhance occupant comfort, work productivity, and wellbeing in a built environment. Potential research topics include (but are not limited to):

• Post-occupancy evaluation and measurement
• Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) (including thermal, visual/lighting, air, acoustic, and/or spatial quality)
• Occupant IEQ perception and behaviors
• Innovative/Sustainable design for human physiological benefits
• Human health and work productivity
• Intelligent IEQ monitoring and management (systems)
• Data-driven environmental comfort modelling
• User-centered environmental control
• Human factors
• Human physiological responses
• Virtual or augmented reality in the built environment

Dr. Joon-Ho Choi
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Buildings is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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