Cohort comfort models -- Using occupants' similarity to predict personal thermal preference with less data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.03078v1
• Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2022 10:21:03 GMT
• Title: Cohort comfort models -- Using occupants' similarity to predict personal thermal preference with less data
• Authors: Matias Quintana, Stefano Schiavon, Federico Tartarini, Joyce Kim, Clayton Miller
• Abstract summary: We introduce Cohort Comfort Models, a new framework for predicting how new occupants would perceive their thermal environment. Our framework is capable of exploiting available background information such as physical characteristics and one-time on-boarding surveys.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We introduce Cohort Comfort Models, a new framework for predicting how new occupants would perceive their thermal environment. Cohort Comfort Models leverage historical data collected from a sample population, who have some underlying preference similarity, to predict thermal preference responses of new occupants. Our framework is capable of exploiting available background information such as physical characteristics and one-time on-boarding surveys (satisfaction with life scale, highly sensitive person scale, the Big Five personality traits) from the new occupant as well as physiological and environmental sensor measurements paired with thermal preference responses. We implemented our framework in two publicly available datasets containing longitudinal data from 55 people, comprising more than 6,000 individual thermal comfort surveys. We observed that, a Cohort Comfort Model that uses background information provided very little change in thermal preference prediction performance but uses none historical data. On the other hand, for half and one third of each dataset occupant population, using Cohort Comfort Models, with less historical data from target occupants, Cohort Comfort Models increased their thermal preference prediction by 8~\% and 5~\% on average, and up to 36~\% and 46~\% for some occupants, when compared to general-purpose models trained on the whole population of occupants. The framework is presented in a data and site agnostic manner, with its different components easily tailored to the data availability of the occupants and the buildings. Cohort Comfort Models can be an important step towards personalization without the need of developing a personalized model for each new occupant.

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