On occupant behavior and innovation studies towards high performance buildings: a transdisciplinary approach

Name: On occupant behavior and innovation studies towards high performance buildings: a transdisciplinary approach
Author: Keskin, Cem, Mengüç, Mustafa Pınar

İsim	On occupant behavior and innovation studies towards high performance buildings: a transdisciplinary approach
Yazar	Keskin, Cem, Mengüç, Mustafa Pınar
Basım Tarihi:	2018-10-06
Basım Yeri	- MDPI
Konu	Energy efficiency, High performance buildings, Human factors, Behavior, Innovation, Network analysis, Socio-technical, Transdisciplinary, Technology acceptance, Smart thermostats
Tür	Süreli Yayın
Dil	İngilizce
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	Özyeğin Üniversitesi
Demirbaş Numarası	2071-1050
Kayıt Numarası	2baa75b0-2ab7-4746-988c-3ea725c1a507
Lokasyon	Mechanical Engineering
Tarih	2018-10-06
Notlar	Center for Energy, Environment, and Economy (CEEE) at Ozyegin University
Örnek Metin	With ever-increasing population and urbanization, it is crucial to decrease energy density in the built environment without sacrificing occupants’ comfort and well-being. This requires consideration of technological developments along with the human factor in order to achieve environmental and social sustainability. Two major contributors to the development of conceptualizations for human-centric technologies are behavior and innovation (B&I) studies. Behavior studies aims to explain individualistic or society-based dynamics of human behavior whereas the innovation studies focuses on social, economic, organizational, and regulatory dimensions and processes of inventive activity. If these studies are incorporated into the hardcore architecture and engineering disciplines with a transdisciplinary approach, the orchestration of occupant behavior and the innovative technologies would be possible, which in turn significantly enhance the comfort and energy efficiency in built environments. This paper aims to provide an overview of interdisciplinary dialog between B&I studies and underlines the role of their collaboration to leverage transdisciplinary research on human-building interaction for energy efficiency. The approach presented here is structured as a conceptual framework and named the ‘socio-technical core’ (STC). STC is to lead to more organic articulation of energy efficiency innovations with real life and pave the way for higher level of acceptance. In order to have a ‘big-picture’ for the well-accepted conceptualizations and the current status of interdisciplinary dialog, we provide a review of (B&I) theories and models along with network analysis of key concepts. Then we investigate the potential directions of future transdisciplinary efforts by discussing the influences of B&I studies to each other for application to energy efficiency studies. In order to put the analysis in a firm background, we provide a case study for thermostat, which can be considered as a product improved with B&I approaches during last decades. We also discuss the benefits of B&I based transdisciplinary research perspective by referring to few examples in literature and the points emerged in this study.
DOI	10.3390/su10103567
Cilt	10

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On occupant behavior and innovation studies towards high performance buildings: a transdisciplinary approach

Yazar Keskin, Cem, Mengüç, Mustafa Pınar

Basım Tarihi 2018-10-06

Basım Yeri - MDPI

Konu Energy efficiency, High performance buildings, Human factors, Behavior, Innovation, Network analysis, Socio-technical, Transdisciplinary, Technology acceptance, Smart thermostats

Tür Süreli Yayın

Dil İngilizce

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane Özyeğin Üniversitesi

Demirbaş Numarası 2071-1050

Kayıt Numarası 2baa75b0-2ab7-4746-988c-3ea725c1a507

Lokasyon Mechanical Engineering

Tarih 2018-10-06

Notlar Center for Energy, Environment, and Economy (CEEE) at Ozyegin University

Örnek Metin With ever-increasing population and urbanization, it is crucial to decrease energy density in the built environment without sacrificing occupants’ comfort and well-being. This requires consideration of technological developments along with the human factor in order to achieve environmental and social sustainability. Two major contributors to the development of conceptualizations for human-centric technologies are behavior and innovation (B&I) studies. Behavior studies aims to explain individualistic or society-based dynamics of human behavior whereas the innovation studies focuses on social, economic, organizational, and regulatory dimensions and processes of inventive activity. If these studies are incorporated into the hardcore architecture and engineering disciplines with a transdisciplinary approach, the orchestration of occupant behavior and the innovative technologies would be possible, which in turn significantly enhance the comfort and energy efficiency in built environments. This paper aims to provide an overview of interdisciplinary dialog between B&I studies and underlines the role of their collaboration to leverage transdisciplinary research on human-building interaction for energy efficiency. The approach presented here is structured as a conceptual framework and named the ‘socio-technical core’ (STC). STC is to lead to more organic articulation of energy efficiency innovations with real life and pave the way for higher level of acceptance. In order to have a ‘big-picture’ for the well-accepted conceptualizations and the current status of interdisciplinary dialog, we provide a review of (B&I) theories and models along with network analysis of key concepts. Then we investigate the potential directions of future transdisciplinary efforts by discussing the influences of B&I studies to each other for application to energy efficiency studies. In order to put the analysis in a firm background, we provide a case study for thermostat, which can be considered as a product improved with B&I approaches during last decades. We also discuss the benefits of B&I based transdisciplinary research perspective by referring to few examples in literature and the points emerged in this study.

DOI 10.3390/su10103567

Cilt 10