Exploring thermally-driven occupant behavioral intention in immersive virtual environment

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-1-2020

Abstract

The authors explored the feasibility of using immersive virtual environments (IVEs) as an apparatus for replicating real-life experiences of an indoor environment and studying the thermally-driven behavioural intention of participants. A series of experiments was conducted in an augmented virtual reality environment, i.e., virtual reality combined with a climate chamber. A total of 27 participants completed all sessions of experiments in IVE and in-situ settings, including a cooling sequence and a heating sequence at two different times with two to three months in between. Participants' behavioural intention choices and their thermal state votes (i.e., thermal sensation, thermal acceptability, and thermal comfort) were collected at the end of the heating and cooling sequences. The heating sequence data was analysed using the Fisher's exact test to determine if the thermal state difference of participants was associated with their behavioural intention difference between IVE and in-situ. The results revealed that the association was random. The results suggested factors other than thermal state difference had influenced their behavioural intention choices.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

EG-ICE 2020 Workshop on Intelligent Computing in Engineering, Proceedings

First Page

175

Last Page

184

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