Recorded Sessions from the Annex 79 Symposium
All presentations from the 6 sessions of the 5th Internationl Symposium on Occupant Behaviour are freely available to view.
A downloadable presentation booklet is also available and if you have any enquiries or further questions please contact us at serg@soton.ac.uk.
SESSION 6
Case Studies on Occupant-Centric Modelling
Niels Lassen – Introduction to PhD Thesis: Subjective Data-Streams for Indoor Climate Assessment in Buildings
Lucile Sarran – Learning to Live in Low-Energy Dwellings: A Mixed-Methods Case Study
Verena M. Barthelmes – Capturing Real-Time Motivations Behind Human-Building Interactions: The OBdrive App
Gary Raw – Evaluating Varying Comfort
Sarah Weiner – Case Study: Reasons of Office Occupant’s Dissatisfaction with an Automated Lighting Control System
Ardeshir Mahdavi – Impact of Visual and Auditory Factors on Perceived Thermal Comfort: A Case Study
SESSION 5
Other Building Occupant-Related Research
Liam O’Brien – Does Teleworking Save Energy? A Critical Review of Quantitative Studies and their Research Methods
Alan Wang – A Systematic Approach to Preserve Privacy in Smart Buildings
Victoria Aragon – Understanding New Technology and their Impacts on Occupants
Jean Rouleau – Towards Low-Energy Housing in the Canadian North from an Occupant-Centric Perspective
Maareva Payet – User Behaviour in Low-Environmental Impact Buildings in Tropical Climates
Nan Gao – N-Gage: Sensing in-class Multidimensional Learning Engagement in the Wild
SESSION 4
Modelling and Simulation, Session 2
Clara-Larissa Lorenz – Generic vs. Occupant Specific Behaviour Modelling in Building Simulation and Building Automation
Julia K. Day – What Does a Zero Energy and Zero Carbon Tenant Look Like?
Isabel Mino-Rodriguez – Effectiveness of Feedforward Information System on Occupant’s Behaviour
Adrian Chong – Quantifying the Impact of Occupant Presence on Building Energy Simulation with Real and Synthetic Data
Anooshmita Das – Prediction of Indoor Clothing Insulation Levels: A Comparison of Different Machine Learning Approaches
Alasdair Mann – Analysis of Occupants Presence in Homes
Tareq Abuimara – The Impact of Occupants’ Distribution on Energy and Comfort in a Case study Office Building
SESSION 3
Modelling and Simulation, Session 1
Miklós Horváth – Occupant Behaviour Profile Development based on Smart Meter Data
Mohamed Ouf – Analysing Smart Thermostat Data and Unregulated Loads to Support the Canadian Net Zero Energy Ready Code
Ardeshir Mahdavi – Agent-Based Modelling of Building Occupants: Promise and Challenges
Clarice Bleil de Souza – Inserting Occupant Behaviour Models Within the Workflow of Practitioners: A Practice-Based Perspective
Tianzhen Hong – Is a Zero-Net-Energy (ZNE) Home Really ZNE?
Marika Vellei – Demand Response Events in Residential Buildings: Not Noticeable at All?
Benjamin Halls – Occupant Behaviour and SAP: Integration of Stochastic Occupancy Modelling into Compliance Tools
SESSION 2
Occupant-Centric Building Controls
Brodie W. Hobson – Implementation of Occupancy-Based Predictive Controls for Outdoor Air Intake Dampers: Lessons Learned
Clayton Miller – What do Occupants Want? Let’s Ask Them Using Smart Watches and Cozie
Philip Agee – A Human-Centered Approach to Residential Buildings
Ghadeer Derbas – Optimization of Solar Shading Control Strategies in Terms of User Behaviour, Energy Performance, Visual and Thermal Comfort
June Young Park – A Reinforcement Learning for Occupant Centric Thermostat Control
Shen Wei – Monitoring Occupant Window Opening Behaviour in Buildings and Relevant Influential Parameters: A Critical Review
Michael Kane – Preliminary Insights into Interviews with Building Energy Mangers Regarding Occupant Centric Control
SESSION 1
Personalised Comfort and Building Controls
Yimin Zhu – Exploring Thermal Comfort in Immersive Virtual Environment
Sarah Crosby – Extending the Fanger PMV Model to Include the Effect of Non-Thermal IEQ Conditions on Occupant’s Thermal Comfort
Simona D’Oca – Are Comfortable Temperature Ranges Healthy?
Matteo Favero – Energy Flexibility of Buildings: Understanding how Thermal Acceptability can Enable Demand-Response Strategies
Michael Kane – Occupant-Centric Control with Personalized and Contextual Thermal Comfort Behaviour Dynamics Prediction
Fillipo Vittori – On Multidimensional Comfort: Multi-Parametric Experimental Experiment Within a BIM Designed Virtual Environment