User-Centered Design of the Smart Building
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2022) | Viewed by 3954
Special Issue Editors
Interests: indoor air quality (IAQ); air distribution; inverse design and control; data-driven/AI-based smart buildings
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Interests: indoor environmental quality (IEQ); integration of solar energy in buildings; integration of photovoltaic and electric vehicles in electricity grids; human behavior and rebounds in sustainable built environments
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Interests: air distribution; smart ventilation; human thermal comfort; indoor air quality
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A smart building involves the installation and use of advanced and integrated building technology systems such as building automation, life safety, telecommunications, user systems, and facility management systems. As implied by the term “smart”, it has intelligent control systems and smart and interconnected devices beyond the traditional building structure and function. The design of a smart building not only considers the technology enabling data capture and analysis, connectivity, monitoring, and control, but is also based upon an explicit understanding of users and driven and refined by user-centered evaluation. This is because a smart building basically creates a thermally comfortable, healthy, safe, and productive environment for the occupants. Further, smart buildings interact with the people, systems, and external elements around them. They learn from past experiences and real-time inputs. They adapt to the needs of the people and the businesses within them by increasing comfort, efficiency, resiliency, and safety. The objective of this Special Issue is to collect innovative research studies on the user-centered design of the smart building.
Dr. Wei Liu
Dr. Alan Kabanshi
Prof. Dr. Yong Cheng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- smart building
- user-centered
- building performance
- energy-efficient
- self-adapted
- sustainable development
- building management
- automation
- data mining
- climate adaptation
