O'Brien, W;
Gunay, HB;
Tahmasebi, F;
Mahdavi, A;
(2016)
A preliminary study of representing the inter-occupant diversity in occupant modelling.
Journal of Building Performance Simulation
, 10
(5-6)
pp. 509-526.
10.1080/19401493.2016.1261943.
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Abstract
Significant diversity between occupants and their presence and actions results in major uncertainty with regard to predicting building performance. However, many current occupant modelling approaches – even stochastic ones – suppress occupant diversity by focusing on developing representative occupants. Accordingly, existing approaches tend to limit the ability of stochastic occupant models to provide probabilistic building performance distributions. Using occupancy data from 16 private offices, this paper evaluated three hypotheses: (1) occupant parameters have a continuous distribution rather than discrete; (2) modelling occupants from aggregated data suppresses diversity; and (3) randomly selecting occupant traits exaggerates synthetic population diversity. The paper indicates that samples sizes for the studied occupants would have more appropriately been an order of magnitude higher: hundreds. This introductory paper shows that there are many future research needs with regard to modelling occupants.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | A preliminary study of representing the inter-occupant diversity in occupant modelling |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/19401493.2016.1261943 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/19401493.2016.1261943 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Technology, Construction & Building Technology, occupant modelling, occupant diversity, sample size, presence, occupancy, THERMAL COMFORT, ENERGY USE, SIMULATION, PERFORMANCE, OFFICES, BUILDINGS, BEHAVIOR, BLINDS, FRAMEWORK, SYSTEMS |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10058655 |
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