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Redefining human thermal perception for the Mediterranean climates. [PDF]

Sci Talks, 2023
SARS-COV-2 focuses on the comfort of outdoor spaces in large cities. Creating comfortable spaces for children and improving the habitability of cities are essential today. Climate change is real, and its main adverse effects are already being felt: Urban Heat Island and recurring heat waves. Numerous comfort models predict the state of the occupants of
Amores TP, Gutiérrez MM, Palma RM, Delgado MG, Ramos JS, Domíguez SÁ.   +5 more
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Thermal Tactile Perception

International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence, 2021
Using thermal tactile sensing mechanism based on semi-infinite body model, and combining with the advantages of maximum proportional controller, fuzzy and PID controller, a thermal tactile perception and reproduction experiment device (TTPRED) was designed based on the composite control strategy of threshold switching.
Junjie Bai, Jun Peng 0008, Dedong Tang, Zuojin Li, Kan Luo, Jianxin Li, Xue Zhang   +6 more
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Material discrimination and thermal perception [PDF]

11th Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, 2003. HAPTICS 2003. Proceedings., 2003
This research is focused on the development of a thermal display and understanding the nature of the thermal cues used to identify objects haptically. The objective of the present set of experiments was to measure material discrimination when thermal cues are the main source of information about the materials.
Lynette A. Jones, Michal Berris
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The effect of thermal transience on the perception of thermal comfort

Physiology & Behavior, 2019
The present study tested the hypothesis that at any given ambient temperature (Ta), thermal comfort (TC) is not only a function of the temperature per se, but is also influenced by the temperatures rate of change and direction.Twelve healthy young (age: 23 ± 3) male participants completed experimental trials where Ta increased from 15° to 40 °C ...
Urša, Ciuha, Kunihito, Tobita, Adam C, McDonnell, Igor B, Mekjavic   +3 more
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Thermal perception thresholds among workers in a cold climate. [PDF]

Int Arch Occup Environ Health, 2017
PURPOSE: To investigate whether exposure to cold could influence the thermal perception thresholds in a working population. METHODS: This cross-sectional study was comprised of 251 males and females and was carried out at two mines in the northern part ...
Burström L, Björ B, Nilsson T, Pettersson H, Rödin I, Wahlström J.   +5 more
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Thermal comfort conditions in airport terminals: Indoor or transition spaces? [PDF]

, 2016
This paper reports on the investigation of the thermal comfort conditions in three airport terminals in the UK. In the course of seasonal field surveys, the indoor environmental conditions were monitored in different terminal areas and questionnaire ...
Kotopouleas, Alkis, Nikolopoulou, Marialena   +1 more
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Quantifying touch-feel perception : tribological aspects [PDF]

, 2008
We report a new investigation into how surface topography and friction affect human touch–feel perception. In contrast with previous work based on micro-scale mapping of surface mechanical and tribological properties, this investigation focuses on the ...
Cai, Z., Smith, S. T., Chetwynd, D. G., Yue, Zhaoyang, Liu, X.   +4 more
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The role of a building’s thermal properties on pupils’ thermal comfort in junior school classrooms as determined in field studies [PDF]

, 2014
Recent thermal comfort research in a light-weight junior school building showed that children were more sensitive to higher temperatures than adults and subsequently that current thermal comfort standards were not appropriate for the assessment of their ...
James, Patrick A.B., Jentsch, Mark F., Teli, Despoina,, James, P.A.B., Teli, Despoina, Jentsch, M.F.   +5 more
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Optimization of urban morphology to enhance outdoor thermal comfort: A microclimate analysis [PDF]

Journal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society
Climate-aware urban environments pose a significant imperative to obtain thermally comfortable outdoor areas. The present study addresses the optimization of urban block morphology in Guelma City, Algeria, to enhance thermal performance in a semi-arid ...
Hanene Guergour, Mohammed Cheraitia, Assoule Dechaicha, Djamel Alkama   +3 more
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Pedestrians’ perception of environmental stimuli through field surveys: focus on particulate pollution [PDF]

, 2011
The connection between perception of individual exposure to different environmental stimuli; microclimate, noise and especially particulate matter (PM) was examined.
Kleissl, Jan, Linden, P F, Lykoudis, Spyros, Jan Kleissl, Linden, P.F., Nikolopoulou, Maria-Heleni, Marialena Nikolopoulou, Nikolopoulou, Marialena, P.F. Linden, Spyros Lykoudis   +9 more
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