Human Response to the Indoor Environment a Collection of Literature Models

Abstract

The Indoor Environmental Quality is today one of the topics of greatest interest. In the scientific community there is awareness that it is not enough to create buildings with high energy savings, but it is also necessary to guarantee high levels of comfort. However, an appropriate evaluation of the actual perception of occupants in the indoor environment is still rather difficult today. The aim of this work is to provide a framework on the human body's sensation and perception mechanisms and to collect human responses to the four main environmental factors, in order to describe how the human body is stimulated by each factor.