The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales

Marcel Schweiker; Amar Abdul-Zahra; Maíra André; Farah Al-Atrash; Hanan Al-Khatri; Rea Risky Alprianti; Hayder Alsaad; Rucha Amin; Eleni Ampatzi; Alpha Yacob Arsano; Montazami Azadeh; Elie Azar; Bannazadeh Bahareh; Amina Batagarawa; Susanne Becker; Carolina Buonocore; Bin Cao; Joon Ho Choi; Chungyoon Chun; Hein Daanen; Siti Aisyah Damiati; Lyrian Daniel; Renata De Vecchi; Shivraj Dhaka; Samuel Domínguez-Amarillo; Edyta Dudkiewicz; Lakshmi Prabha Edappilly; Jesica Fernández-Agüera; Mireille Folkerts; Arjan Frijns; Gabriel Gaona; Vishal Garg; Stephanie Gauthier; Shahla Ghaffari Jabbari; Djamila Harimi; Runa T. Hellwig; Gesche M. Huebner; Quan Jin; Mina Jowkar; Renate Kania; Jungsoo Kim; Nelson King; Boris Kingma; M. Donny Koerniawan; Jakub Kolarik; Shailendra Kumar; Alison Kwok; Roberto Lamberts; Marta Laska; M. C.Jeffrey Lee; Yoonhee Lee; Vanessa Lindermayr; Mohammadbagher Mahaki; Udochukwu Marcel-Okafor; Laura Marín-Restrepo; Anna Marquardsen; Francesco Martellotta; Jyotirmay Mathur; Gráinne McGill; Isabel Mino-Rodriguez; Di Mou; Bassam Moujalled; Mia Nakajima; Edward Ng; Marcellinus Okafor; Mark Olweny; Wanlu Ouyang; Ana Ligia Papst de Abreu; Alexis Pérez-Fargallo; Indrika Rajapaksha; Greici Ramos; Saif Rashid; Christoph F. Reinhart; Ma Isabel Rivera; Mazyar Salmanzadeh; Karin Schakib-Ekbatan; Stefano Schiavon; Salman Shooshtarian; Masanori Shukuya; Veronica Soebarto; Suhendri; Mohammad Tahsildoost; Federico Tartarini; Despoina Teli; Priyam Tewari; Samar Thapa; Maureen Trebilcock; Jörg Trojan; Ruqayyatu B. Tukur; Conrad Voelker; Yeung Yam; Liu Yang; Gabriela Zapata-Lancaster; Yongchao Zhai; Yingxin Zhu; Zahra Sadat Zomorodian

doi:10.1038/s41597-019-0272-6

The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales

Marcel Schweiker
, Amar Abdul-Zahra
, Maíra André
, Farah Al-Atrash
, Hanan Al-Khatri
, Rea Risky Alprianti
, Hayder Alsaad
, Rucha Amin
, Eleni Ampatzi
, Alpha Yacob Arsano
, Montazami Azadeh
, Elie Azar
, Bannazadeh Bahareh
, Amina Batagarawa
, Susanne Becker
, Carolina Buonocore
, Bin Cao
, Joon Ho Choi
, Chungyoon Chun
, Hein Daanen

Siti Aisyah Damiati, Lyrian Daniel, Renata De Vecchi, Shivraj Dhaka, Samuel Domínguez-Amarillo, Edyta Dudkiewicz, Lakshmi Prabha Edappilly, Jesica Fernández-Agüera, Mireille Folkerts, Arjan Frijns, Gabriel Gaona, Vishal Garg, Stephanie Gauthier, Shahla Ghaffari Jabbari, Djamila Harimi, Runa T. Hellwig, Gesche M. Huebner, Quan Jin, Mina Jowkar, Renate Kania, Jungsoo Kim, Nelson King, Boris Kingma, M. Donny Koerniawan, Jakub Kolarik, Shailendra Kumar, Alison Kwok, Roberto Lamberts, Marta Laska, M. C.Jeffrey Lee, Yoonhee Lee, Vanessa Lindermayr, Mohammadbagher Mahaki, Udochukwu Marcel-Okafor, Laura Marín-Restrepo, Anna Marquardsen, Francesco Martellotta, Jyotirmay Mathur, Gráinne McGill, Isabel Mino-Rodriguez, Di Mou, Bassam Moujalled, Mia Nakajima, Edward Ng, Marcellinus Okafor, Mark Olweny, Wanlu Ouyang, Ana Ligia Papst de Abreu, Alexis Pérez-Fargallo, Indrika Rajapaksha, Greici Ramos, Saif Rashid, Christoph F. Reinhart, Ma Isabel Rivera, Mazyar Salmanzadeh, Karin Schakib-Ekbatan, Stefano Schiavon, Salman Shooshtarian, Masanori Shukuya, Veronica Soebarto, Suhendri, Mohammad Tahsildoost, Federico Tartarini, Despoina Teli, Priyam Tewari, Samar Thapa, Maureen Trebilcock, Jörg Trojan, Ruqayyatu B. Tukur, Conrad Voelker, Yeung Yam, Liu Yang, Gabriela Zapata-Lancaster, Yongchao Zhai, Yingxin Zhu, Zahra Sadat Zomorodian

Building Science Group
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Mechanical Engineering Department
University of Technology- Iraq
CTC/Department of Civil Engineering
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
School of Architecture and Built Environment
German Jordanian University
Civil and Architectural Engineering Department
Sultan Qaboos University
Laboratory of Building Technology
Bandung Institute of Technology
Department of Building Physics
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Energy & Climate Change Group
University of Southampton
Cardiff University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Faculty of Engineering
Coventry University
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Khalifa University of Science and Technology
Architecture
University of Tehran
Department of Architecture
Ahmadu Bello University
Department of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience
Heidelberg University
CTC/Department of Architecture and Urban Planning
Department of Building Science
Tsinghua University
School of Architecture
University of Southern California
Department of Interior Architecture and Built Environment
Yonsei University
Department of Human Movement Sciences
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
School of Architecture and Built Environment
University of Adelaide
Indian Green Building Council (IGBC)
University of Seville
Faculty of Environmental Engineering
Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Department of Civil Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Eindhoven University of Technology
Universidad de Cuenca
Centre for IT in Building Science
International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad
Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism
Tabriz Islamic Art University
Faculty of Engineering
Universiti Malaysia Sabah
Architecture
Aalborg University
Energy Efficiency Design
Augsburg University of Applied Sciences
Energy Institute
University College London
Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering
Chalmers University of Technology
School of Architecture
University of Sydney
Training and Performance Optimization
Department of Nutrition
University of Copenhagen
Department of Civil Engineering
Technical University of Denmark
Centre for Energy and Environment
Malaviya National Institute of Technology
University of Oregon
Department of Interior Design
National Taichung University of Science and Technology
Mechanical Engineering
Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman
Architecture
Federal Polytechnic
Faculty of Architecture
Universidad del Bío-Bío
Department of Psychology
The University of Kaiserslautern-Landau
Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Ingegneria Civile e dell’Architettura
Polytechnic University of Bari
Mackintosh Environmental Architecture Research Unit
Glasgow School of Art
Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering
Ministry for Ecological and Inclusive Transition
Center for the Built Environment (CBE)
University of California at Berkeley
School of Architecture
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Architecture
Imo State University, Owerri
Faculty of the Built Environment
Uganda Martyrs University
Department of Civil Construction
Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Santa Catarina
Department of Building Science
Department of Architecture
University of Moratuwa
Department of Building Physics/Low Energy Buildings
Departamento de Arquitectura
Universidad de Concepción
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University
Department of Restoration Ecology and Built Environment
Tokyo City University
Department of construction
Shahid Beheshti University
Sustainable Buildings Research Centre
University of Wollongong
Department of Environmental Studies
University of North Bengal
Department of Architectural Theory and Design
Akademie für angewandte Bewegungswissenschaften gGmbH
Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering
School of Architecture
Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology

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Abstract

Thermal discomfort is one of the main triggers for occupants’ interactions with components of the built environment such as adjustments of thermostats and/or opening windows and strongly related to the energy use in buildings. Understanding causes for thermal (dis-)comfort is crucial for design and operation of any type of building. The assessment of human thermal perception through rating scales, for example in post-occupancy studies, has been applied for several decades; however, long-existing assumptions related to these rating scales had been questioned by several researchers. The aim of this study was to gain deeper knowledge on contextual influences on the interpretation of thermal perception scales and their verbal anchors by survey participants. A questionnaire was designed and consequently applied in 21 language versions. These surveys were conducted in 57 cities in 30 countries resulting in a dataset containing responses from 8225 participants. The database offers potential for further analysis in the areas of building design and operation, psycho-physical relationships between human perception and the built environment, and linguistic analyses.

Original language	English
Article number	289
Journal	Scientific Data
Volume	6
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0272-6
State	Published - 1 Dec 2019
Externally published	Yes

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Schweiker, M., Abdul-Zahra, A., André, M., Al-Atrash, F., Al-Khatri, H., Alprianti, R. R., Alsaad, H., Amin, R., Ampatzi, E., Arsano, A. Y., Azadeh, M., Azar, E., Bahareh, B., Batagarawa, A., Becker, S., Buonocore, C., Cao, B., Choi, J. H., Chun, C., ... Zomorodian, Z. S. (2019). The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales. Scientific Data, 6(1), Article 289. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0272-6

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The Scales Project, a cross-national dataset on the interpretation of thermal perception scales

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