The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales

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doi:10.1038/s41597-019-0272-6

The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales

Marcel Schweiker
, Amar Abdul-Zahra
, Maíra André
, Farah Al-Atrash
, Hanan Al-Khatri
, Rea Risky Alprianti
, Hayder Alsaad
, Rucha Amin
, Eleni Ampatzi
, Alpha Yacob Arsano
, Montazami Azadeh
, Elie Azar
, Bannazadeh Bahareh
, Amina Batagarawa
, Susanne Becker
, Carolina Buonocore
, Bin Cao
, Joon Ho Choi
, Chungyoon Chun
, Hein Daanen

Siti Aisyah Damiati, Lyrian Daniel, Renata De Vecchi, Shivraj Dhaka, Samuel Domínguez-Amarillo, Edyta Dudkiewicz, Lakshmi Prabha Edappilly, Jesica Fernández-Agüera, Mireille Folkerts, Arjan Frijns, Gabriel Gaona, Vishal Garg, Stephanie Gauthier, Shahla Ghaffari Jabbari, Djamila Harimi, Runa T. Hellwig, Gesche M. Huebner, Quan Jin, Mina Jowkar, Renate Kania, Jungsoo Kim, Nelson King, Boris Kingma, M. Donny Koerniawan, Jakub Kolarik, Shailendra Kumar, Alison Kwok, Roberto Lamberts, Marta Laska, M. C.Jeffrey Lee, Yoonhee Lee, Vanessa Lindermayr, Mohammadbagher Mahaki, Udochukwu Marcel-Okafor, Laura Marín-Restrepo, Anna Marquardsen, Francesco Martellotta, Jyotirmay Mathur, Gráinne McGill, Isabel Mino-Rodriguez, Di Mou, Bassam Moujalled, Mia Nakajima, Edward Ng, Marcellinus Okafor, Mark Olweny, Wanlu Ouyang, Ana Ligia Papst de Abreu, Alexis Pérez-Fargallo, Indrika Rajapaksha, Greici Ramos, Saif Rashid, Christoph F. Reinhart, Ma Isabel Rivera, Mazyar Salmanzadeh, Karin Schakib-Ekbatan, Stefano Schiavon, Salman Shooshtarian, Masanori Shukuya, Veronica Soebarto, Suhendri, Mohammad Tahsildoost, Federico Tartarini, Despoina Teli, Priyam Tewari, Samar Thapa, Maureen Trebilcock, Jörg Trojan, Ruqayyatu B. Tukur, Conrad Voelker, Yeung Yam, Liu Yang, Gabriela Zapata-Lancaster, Yongchao Zhai, Yingxin Zhu, Zahra Sadat Zomorodian

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
University of Technology
Federal University of Santa Catarina
German Jordanian University
Sultan Qaboos University
Institute of Technology Bandung
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
University of Southampton
Cardiff University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Khalifa University
University of Tehran
Ahmadu Bello University
University of Heidelberg
Tsinghua University
University of Southern California
Yonsei University
VU University Amsterdam
University of Adelaide
Indian Green Building Council (IGBC)
University of Seville
Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Universidad de Cuenca
International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad
Tabriz Islamic Art University
Universiti Malaysia Sabah
Aalborg University
Augsburg University of Applied Sciences
University College London
Chalmers University of Technology
University of Sydney
University of Copenhagen
Technical University of Denmark
Malaviya National Institute of Technology
University of Oregon
National Taichung University of Science and Technology
Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman
Federal Polytechnic, Nekede
University of Bío-Bío
University Koblenz-Landau
Politecnico di Bari
Glasgow School of Art
Cerema
University of California, Berkeley
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Imo State University
Uganda Martyrs University
Federal Institute of Santa Catarina
University of Moratuwa
University of Kaiserslautern
Universidad de Concepción
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Tokyo City University
Shahid Beheshti University
University of Wollongong
Salesian College
Akademie für angewandte Bewegungswissenschaften gGmbH
Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology
The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Sciences

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Abstract

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 influences 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 offers 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.

Original language	English
Article number	289
Number of pages	10
Journal	Scientific data
Volume	6
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0272-6
Publication status	Published - 26 Nov 2019

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This project was conducted under the framework of IEA EBC Annex 69. M.Sch., S.B., and K.S-E. acknowledge funding by the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities within the project “Thermal comfort and pain”. M.Sch. is thankful to Prof. F. Nicol to share the information on participation via NCEUB, Prof. A. Wagner, Prof. G. Vrachliotis, and Dr. M. Krause from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology for their support in distributing questionnaires. A.A.-Z. would like to thank all the students from University of Technology-Iraq/Mechanical Engineering Department, who participated by providing answers to the questionnaire. F.A.-A. and the research related to Jordan was supported by M.Sch. H.A.-K. is thankful to Dalal Al-Khatri, Noor Alhuda Al-Saqri, and Maryam Al-Bartamani for their contribution in distributing the questionnaires. E.Am. is thankful to Eleni Alexandrou of the National Technical University of Athens for her contribution in distributing the questionnaires. B.C. is thankful to the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51521005 and No. 51678330). C.C. is thankful to National Research Foundation of Korea (No. NRF-2017R1A2B4012122) J-H.C. would like to express gratitude to the USC students who volunteered for the data collection, and a special thanks to Ms. Zhihe Wang, who provided a technical assistance to compile the acquired dataset. S.D.-A. is thankful for the funding support of the TEP-130 R&D group from the US. L.P.E.would like to thank IITM, India for the support and DAAD for the scholarship. G.G. is thankful to Andrés Chico, Freddy Ordoñez, Jesús López (Escuela Politécnica Nacional – EPN), Ricardo Narváez (Universidad Central del Ecuador), Guillermo Soriano (Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral - ESPOL), Daniel Quiroz (Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam) and Stalin Guamán (Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam). S.G. would like to thank the Sustainable Energy Research Group (energy.soton.ac.uk) for supporting this work. D.H. is thankful to all the students from Universiti Malaysia Sabah who participated in the present field study. She is also very grateful to all the lecturers who contributed directly and indirectly in the present study. R.T.H. would like to thank Prof Mahena Stief, Dr. Julia Sonnberger, Stefan Keller, Prof Markus Reppich and Prof Michael Krupp and all HSA students involved for their support. G.M.H. was supported by Research Councils UK (RCUK) Centre for Energy Epidemiology (EP/K011839/1) and UK Research and Innovation through the Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions, grant reference number EP/R 035288/1. Q.J. acknowledges the funding by Chalmers Energy Area of Advance and is thankful to Jan-Olof Dalenbäck, Holger Wallbaum, Björn Gross, and Ulrike Rahe. B.K. is thankful for Heatshield, under EU Horizon 2020 grant agreement No 668786 and the Ministerie van Defensie (SOLAR V1605). J.Ko. would like to thank Prof. Jørn Toftum for help with translation of the survey questionnaire A.K. is appreciative of the volunteer work of Yi-Cheng Lei, Eugene Leung, Bentley Rager, Rachel Rimmer, and Kelly Schoenborn. M.C.J.L. would thank for MOST Taiwan and NTCUST to support the funding and measure instruments. I.M-R. is thankful to Andrés Chico, Freddy Ordoñez, Jesús López (Escuela Politécnica Nacional – EPN), Ricardo Narváez (Universidad Central del Ecuador), Guillermo Soriano (Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral – ESPOL), Daniel Quiroz (Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam) and Stalin Guamán (Universidad Regional Amazónica Ikiam). I.R. is thankful to first year Architecture students of University of Moratuwa who volunteered for the data collection. M.Ok. would want to thank all the students from Imo State University, Owerri and Federal Polytechnic, Nekede who participated by providing answers to the questionnaire. M.Ol. would like to thank Tadeo Nedala and Menelik Tibikabire who helped administer the questionnaires. W.O. would like to thank Prof Bruce Lonnman for his support and all CUHK students involved. The study is supported by General Research Fund, Research Grant Council, Hong Kong (Project code: 14629516) and Vice-Chancellor’s One-off Discretionary Fund of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. A.L.P.A. would like to thank the Civil Engineering students of IFSC who volunteered for the data collection. M.I.R. is appreciative of the volunteer work of Yi-Cheng Lei, Eugene Leung, Bentley Rager, Rachel Rimmer, and Kelly Schoenborn. V.S.‘s involvement in the project was partially funded through the Special Study Program provided by The Faculty of Professions, University of Adelaide. D.T. would like to thank Vinnova (Sweden’s Innovation Agency) and her colleagues at the Division of Building Services Engineering for their support.

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Schweiker, M., Abdul-Zahra, A., André, M., Al-Atrash, F., Al-Khatri, H., Alprianti, R. R., Alsaad, H., Amin, R., Ampatzi, E., Arsano, A. Y., Azadeh, M., Azar, E., Bahareh, B., Batagarawa, A., Becker, S., Buonocore, C., Cao, B., Choi, J. H., Chun, C., ... Zomorodian, Z. S. (2019). The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales. Scientific data, 6(1), Article 289. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0272-6

Schweiker, M, Abdul-Zahra, A, André, M, Al-Atrash, F, Al-Khatri, H, Alprianti, RR, Alsaad, H, Amin, R, Ampatzi, E, Arsano, AY, Azadeh, M, Azar, E, Bahareh, B, Batagarawa, A, Becker, S, Buonocore, C, Cao, B, Choi, JH, Chun, C, Daanen, H, Damiati, SA, Daniel, L, Vecchi, RD, Dhaka, S, Domínguez-Amarillo, S, Dudkiewicz, E, Edappilly, LP, Fernández-Agüera, J, Folkerts, M, Frijns, A, Gaona, G, Garg, V, Gauthier, S, Jabbari, SG, Harimi, D, Hellwig, RT, Huebner, GM, Jin, Q, Jowkar, M, Kania, R, Kim, J, King, N, Kingma, B, Koerniawan, MD, Kolarik, J, Kumar, S, Kwok, A, Lamberts, R, Laska, M, Lee, MCJ, Lee, Y, Lindermayr, V, Mahaki, M, Marcel-Okafor, U, Marín-Restrepo, L, Marquardsen, A, Martellotta, F, Mathur, J, McGill, G, Mino-Rodriguez, I, Mou, D, Moujalled, B, Nakajima, M, Ng, E, Okafor, M, Olweny, M, Ouyang, W, Papst de Abreu, AL, Pérez-Fargallo, A, Rajapaksha, I, Ramos, G, Rashid, S, Reinhart, CF, Rivera, MI, Salmanzadeh, M, Schakib-Ekbatan, K, Schiavon, S, Shooshtarian, S, Shukuya, M, Soebarto, V, Suhendri, Tahsildoost, M, Tartarini, F, Teli, D, Tewari, P, Thapa, S, Trebilcock, M, Trojan, J, Tukur, RB, Voelker, C, Yam, Y, Yang, L, Zapata-Lancaster, G, Zhai, Y, Zhu, Y & Zomorodian, ZS 2019, 'The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales', Scientific data, vol. 6, no. 1, 289. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0272-6

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