The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales
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2019Author
Schweiker, Marcel
Abdul-Zahra, Amar
André, Maíra
Al-Atrash, Farah
AlKhatri, Hanan
Alprianti, Rea Risky
Alsaad, Hayder
Amin, Rucha
Ampatzi, Eleni
Arsano, AlphaYacob
Azadeh, Montazami
Azar, Elie
Bahareh, Bannazadeh
Batagarawa, Amina
Becker, Susanne
Buonocore, Carolina
Cao, Bin
Choi, Joon-Ho
Chun, Chungyoon
Daanen, Hein
Damiati, Siti Aisyah
Daniel, Lyrian
DeVecchi, Renata
Dhaka, Shivraj
Domínguez-Amarillo, Samuel
Dudkiewicz, Edyta
Edappilly, Lakshmi Prabha
Fernández-Agüera, Jesica
Folkerts, Mireille
Frijns, Arjan
Gaona, Gabriel
Garg, Vishal
Gauthier, Stephanie
Jabbari, Shahla Ghafari
Harimi, Djamila
Hellwig, Runa T.
Huebner, Gesche M.
Jin, Quan
Jowkar, Mina
Kania, Renate
Kim, Jungsoo
King, Nelson
Kingma, Boris
Koerniawan, M. Donny
Kolarik, Jakub
Kumar, Shailendra
Kwok, Alison
Lamberts, Roberto
Laska, Marta
Lee, M. C. Jefrey
Lee, Yoonhee
Lindermayr, Vanessa
Mahaki, Mohammadbagher
Marcel-Okafor, Udochukwu
Marín-Restrepo, Laura
Marquardsen, Anna
Martellotta, Francesco
Mathur, Jyotirmay
McGill, Gráinne
Mino-Rodriguez, Isabel
Moujalled, Bassam
Mou, Di
Nakajima, Mia
Ng, Edward
Okafor, Marcellinus
Ouyang, Wanlu
Papst de Abreu, Ana Ligia
Pérez-Fargallo, Alexis
Rajapaksha, Indrika
Ramos, Greici
Rashid, Saif
Reinhart, Christoph F.
Rivera, Ma. Isabel
Salmanzadeh, Mazyar
SchakibEkbatan, Karin
Schiavon, Stefano
Shooshtarian, Salman
Shukuya, Masanori
Soebarto, Veronica
Suhendri
Tahsildoost, Mohammad
Tartarini, Federico
Teli, Despoina
Tewari, Priyam
Thapa, Samar
Trebilcock, Maureen
Trojan, Jörg
Tukur, Ruqayyatu B.
Voelker, Conrad
Yam, Yeung
Yang, Liu
Zomorodian, Zahra Sadat
Zapata-Lancaster, Gabriela
Zhai, Yongchao
Zhu, Yingxin
Olweny, Mark R. O.
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Thermal discomfort is one of the main triggers for occupants’ interactions with components
of the built environment such as adjustments of thermostats and/or opening windows and
strongly related to the energy use in buildings. Understanding causes for thermal (dis-)
comfort is crucial for design and operation of any type of building. The assessment of human
thermal perception through rating scales, for example in post-occupancy studies, has been
applied for several decades; however, long-existing assumptions related to these rating
scales had been questioned by several researchers. The aim of this study was to gain deeper
knowledge on contextual infuences on the interpretation of thermal perception scales and
their verbal anchors by survey participants. A questionnaire was designed and consequently
applied in 21 language versions. These surveys were conducted in 57 cities in 30 countries
resulting in a dataset containing responses from 8225 participants. The database ofers
potential for further analysis in the areas of building design and operation, psycho-physical
relationships between human perception and the built environment, and linguistic analyses.
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