Carlucci S. Thermal Comfort Assessment of Buildings 2013

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A number of metrics for assessing human thermal response to climatic conditions have been proposed in scientific literature over the last decades. They aim at describing human thermal perception of the thermal environment to which an individual or a group of people is exposed. More recently, a new type of “discomfort index” has been proposed for describing, in a synthetic way, long-term phenomena.
A Review of Long-Term Discomfort Indices
Comparison of the Ranking Capabilities of the Long-Term
Discomfort Indices
Gap Analysis of the Long-Term Discomfort Indices and a Harmonized Calculation Framework
The Long-Term Percentage of Dissatisfied
Conclusions and Future Developments
Glossary