A Pragmatic Theory of Occupants' Indoor-Environmental Control Behaviour

Computational tools for building design and operation support entail fairly detailed representations of buildings' geometry, construction, and systems. Recent efforts aim at enhancing, in these tools, the relatively less developed models of building users. Thereby, one of the key challenges con...

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Autores principales:	Ardeshir Mahdavi, Veselina Bochukova, Christiane Berger
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Publicado:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
Materias:	behavioural theory indoor environment occupant actions computational models ontology Science (General) Q1-390 Social sciences (General) H1-99
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:58e7cb40c3804e5ea9a15fd08a2fe48a2021-12-01T01:11:51ZA Pragmatic Theory of Occupants' Indoor-Environmental Control Behaviour2624-963410.3389/frsc.2021.748288https://doaj.org/article/58e7cb40c3804e5ea9a15fd08a2fe48a2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsc.2021.748288/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/2624-9634Computational tools for building design and operation support entail fairly detailed representations of buildings' geometry, construction, and systems. Recent efforts aim at enhancing, in these tools, the relatively less developed models of building users. Thereby, one of the key challenges concerns the fit between the nature and level of needed support (e.g., performance queries) on the one hand and the required or appropriate resolution of the applied occupant model on the other hand. Some queries involving aggregate performance indicator may be sufficiently served by simple models of occupants' presence and actions in buildings. Detailed queries, however, may necessitate the implementation of high-resolution dynamic occupant representations. Methods to generate an occupant model may be fully data-driven, or they may be based on explicitly stated causal theories of human behaviour. However, there is not necessarily a sharp boundary between these approaches: Regularities harnessed by data-driven methods often reveal an implicit theoretical feature, as they are key to mapping processes from independent variables (model input) to dependent variables (manifest behaviour). Causal methods, on the other hand, need data to both develop and calibrate occupant methods. In this context, the present paper introduces the outline and main elements of a pragmatic theory of control-oriented human behaviour in buildings. The theory is suggested to inform the efforts towards construction of occupant models in computational applications related to building design, operation, and evaluation. Specifically, it can systematically guide the formulation of occupant-related ontologies and their instantiation in computational applications.Ardeshir MahdaviVeselina BochukovaChristiane BergerFrontiers Media S.A.articlebehavioural theoryindoor environmentoccupant actionscomputational modelsontologyScience (General)Q1-390Social sciences (General)H1-99ENFrontiers in Sustainable Cities, Vol 3 (2021)
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topic	behavioural theory indoor environment occupant actions computational models ontology Science (General) Q1-390 Social sciences (General) H1-99
spellingShingle	behavioural theory indoor environment occupant actions computational models ontology Science (General) Q1-390 Social sciences (General) H1-99 Ardeshir Mahdavi Veselina Bochukova Christiane Berger A Pragmatic Theory of Occupants' Indoor-Environmental Control Behaviour
description	Computational tools for building design and operation support entail fairly detailed representations of buildings' geometry, construction, and systems. Recent efforts aim at enhancing, in these tools, the relatively less developed models of building users. Thereby, one of the key challenges concerns the fit between the nature and level of needed support (e.g., performance queries) on the one hand and the required or appropriate resolution of the applied occupant model on the other hand. Some queries involving aggregate performance indicator may be sufficiently served by simple models of occupants' presence and actions in buildings. Detailed queries, however, may necessitate the implementation of high-resolution dynamic occupant representations. Methods to generate an occupant model may be fully data-driven, or they may be based on explicitly stated causal theories of human behaviour. However, there is not necessarily a sharp boundary between these approaches: Regularities harnessed by data-driven methods often reveal an implicit theoretical feature, as they are key to mapping processes from independent variables (model input) to dependent variables (manifest behaviour). Causal methods, on the other hand, need data to both develop and calibrate occupant methods. In this context, the present paper introduces the outline and main elements of a pragmatic theory of control-oriented human behaviour in buildings. The theory is suggested to inform the efforts towards construction of occupant models in computational applications related to building design, operation, and evaluation. Specifically, it can systematically guide the formulation of occupant-related ontologies and their instantiation in computational applications.
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author	Ardeshir Mahdavi Veselina Bochukova Christiane Berger
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title	A Pragmatic Theory of Occupants' Indoor-Environmental Control Behaviour
title_short	A Pragmatic Theory of Occupants' Indoor-Environmental Control Behaviour
title_full	A Pragmatic Theory of Occupants' Indoor-Environmental Control Behaviour
title_fullStr	A Pragmatic Theory of Occupants' Indoor-Environmental Control Behaviour
title_full_unstemmed	A Pragmatic Theory of Occupants' Indoor-Environmental Control Behaviour
title_sort	pragmatic theory of occupants' indoor-environmental control behaviour
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A Pragmatic Theory of Occupants' Indoor-Environmental Control Behaviour

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