Catch my drift? Achieving comfort more sustainably in conventionally heated buildings

Adrian K. Clear; Adrian Friday; Mike Hazas; Carolynne Lord

doi:10.1145/2598510.2598529

Catch my drift? Achieving comfort more sustainably in conventionally heated buildings

Adrian K. Clear
, Adrian Friday
, Mike Hazas
, Carolynne Lord

Lancaster University

Research output: Chapter in Book or Conference Publication/Proceeding › Conference Publication › peer-review

34 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Tightly regulating indoor building temperatures using mechanical heating and cooling contributes significantly to worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. One promising approach for reducing the energy demand associated with indoor climate control is the adaptive model for thermal comfort. In this paper, we explore the challenges and opportunities for supporting the transition toward adaptive thermal comfort in conventionally heated buildings. We replaced the heating control system for eight university undergraduates living on campus for fifty days from January-March 2013. We report on the participants' experiences of living with and adapting to the change in conditions. We reflect on the lessons arising from our intervention for researchers and practitioners seeking to design for sustainability and thermal comfort.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DIS 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1015-1024
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781450329026
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2598510.2598529
Publication status	Published - 2014
Externally published	Yes
Event	2014 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2014 - Vancouver, BC, Canada Duration: 21 Jun 2014 → 25 Jun 2014

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS

Conference

Conference	2014 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2014
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Vancouver, BC
Period	21/06/14 → 25/06/14

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 13 Climate Action

Keywords

Sustainability
Thermal comfort

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Clear, A. K., Friday, A., Hazas, M., & Lord, C. (2014). Catch my drift? Achieving comfort more sustainably in conventionally heated buildings. In DIS 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (pp. 1015-1024). (Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2598510.2598529

Clear, Adrian K. ; Friday, Adrian ; Hazas, Mike et al. / Catch my drift? Achieving comfort more sustainably in conventionally heated buildings. DIS 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. pp. 1015-1024 (Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS).

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Clear, AK, Friday, A, Hazas, M & Lord, C 2014, Catch my drift? Achieving comfort more sustainably in conventionally heated buildings. in DIS 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 1015-1024, 2014 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2014, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 21/06/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2598510.2598529

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DIS 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. p. 1015-1024 (Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS).

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Clear AK, Friday A, Hazas M, Lord C. Catch my drift? Achieving comfort more sustainably in conventionally heated buildings. In DIS 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. Association for Computing Machinery. 2014. p. 1015-1024. (Proceedings of the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques, DIS). doi: 10.1145/2598510.2598529

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