Publications by Giorgia Chinazzo

A state-of-the-art, systematic review of indoor environmental quality studies in work-from-home settings

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a significant increase in working from home worldwide, making the workfrom-home (WFH) setting a crucial context for studying the influence of indoor environmental quality (IEQ) on workers' well-being and productivity. A nar ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024

Ten questions concerning statistical data analysis in human-centric buildings research: A focus on thermal comfort investigations

Giorgia Chinazzo, Andrew James Sonta, Matteo Favero

Given the large amount of time we spend indoors, designing and operating buildings that are safe, comfortable, and conducive to productivity and well-being is essential. To achieve this goal, in the past decades, research has been conducted to investigate ...

Elsevier BV2024

Quality criteria for multi-domain studies in the indoor environment: Critical review towards research guidelines and recommendations

Mandana Sarey Khanie, Giorgia Chinazzo, Dolaana Khovalyg, Verena Marie Barthelmes, Matteo Favero

The perception, physiology, behavior, and performance of building occupants are influenced by multi-domain exposures: the simultaneous presence of multiple environmental stimuli, i.e., visual, thermal, acoustic, and air quality. Despite being extensive, th ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Human thermal perception and time of day: A review

Giorgia Chinazzo

The circadian clock regulates diurnal variations in autonomic thermoregulatory processes such as core body temperature in humans. Thus, we might expect that similar daily fluctuations also characterize human thermal perception, the ultimate role of which i ...

2021

Towards a wearable sensor for spectrally-resolved personal light monitoring

Marilyne Andersen, Giorgia Chinazzo, Forrest Simon Webler

Given the large impact that the spectrum and intensity of light can have on people's health and well-being, it is of fundamental importance to understand the properties of light received under normal living conditions. Historically, as research into the bi ...

2021

Effect of Indoor Temperature and Glazing with Saturated Color on Visual Perception of Daylight

Marilyne Andersen, Giorgia Chinazzo, Jan Wienold

This paper presents the combined effect of indoor temperature (19 degrees C, 22 degrees C, and 26 degrees C) and colored glazing (blue, orange, and neutral) on visual perception of daylight. Experiments were performed in an office-like test room, in which ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC2021

Temperature–Color Interaction: Subjective Indoor Environmental Perception and Physiological Responses in Virtual Reality

Marilyne Andersen, Kynthia Chamilothori, Giorgia Chinazzo, Jan Wienold

Objective Temperature–color interaction effects on subjective perception and physiological responses are investigated using a novel hybrid experimental method combining thermal and visual stimuli from real and virtual reality (VR) environments, respectivel ...

2021

Energy performance and occupancy-based analysis of visual and thermal comfort for transmittance level and layout variations of semi-transparent photovoltaics

Marilyne Andersen, Giuseppe Peronato, Giorgia Chinazzo, Jan Wienold

This paper investigates the impact of transmittance level and layout variations of semi-transparent photovoltaics (STPV) on both energy performance and occupancy-based visual and thermal comfort, simulating a reference office with a fully south-oriented gl ...

IBPSA2019

Daylight affects human thermal perception

Marilyne Andersen, Giorgia Chinazzo, Jan Wienold

Understanding the factors that affect human thermal responses is necessary to properly design and operate low-energy buildings. It has been suggested that factors not related to the thermal environment can affect thermal responses of occupants, but these f ...

Nature Research2019

Subjective and physiological responses to façade and sunlight pattern geometry in virtual reality

Marilyne Andersen, Kynthia Chamilothori, Giorgia Chinazzo, Jan Wienold, João Pedro de Matos Rodrigues

This study investigates the joint impact of façade geometry and associated sunlight patterns on occupant subjective perception and physiological responses through a novel experimental method coupling physically-based simulations shown in virtual reality wi ...

2019

Cognitive performance evaluation under controlled daylight levels at different indoor temperatures

Marilyne Andersen, Giorgia Chinazzo, Jan Wienold

This paper details the results of an experimental study investigating the influence of daylight illuminance levels and indoor temperatures on objective and subjective performance evaluations, investigated through paper-based tasks and questionnaires, respe ...

2019

Daylight and temperature in buildings: interaction effects on human responses

Giorgia Chinazzo

Over the past years, increasing efforts have been devoted to understand how people perceive the indoor environment with the goal to improve building design and operation. Studies have separately addressed the effects of the four main aspects that influence ...

EPFL2019

Influence of indoor temperature and daylight illuminance on visual perception

Marilyne Andersen, Giorgia Chinazzo, Jan Wienold

This paper details the results of an experimental study investigating the combined effect of indoor temperature (19 ℃, 23 ℃ and 27 ℃) and horizontal illuminances (∼140 lx, ∼610 lx and ∼1440 lx) on visual perception, with daylight as the only source of ligh ...

2019

Variation in thermal, visual and overall comfort evaluation under coloured glazing at different temperature levels

Marilyne Andersen, Giorgia Chinazzo, Jan Wienold

Within the scope of a broader research project about daylight and temperature interaction effects on human responses, this paper investigates how daylight transmitted through spectrally selective glazing (blue, orange and a reference neutral) affects therm ...

2019

Combined effects of daylight transmitted through coloured glazing and indoor temperature on thermal responses and overall comfort

Marilyne Andersen, Giorgia Chinazzo, Jan Wienold

This study investigates the effect of daylight transmitted through three coloured glazing types (blue, orange and neutral) on thermal responses and overall comfort, at three temperature levels (19 °C, 22 °C and 26 °C). The goal is threefold: (i) understand ...

2018

Indoor environment as a multi-sensory experience: visual and thermal factor interactions

Marilyne Andersen, Giorgia Chinazzo, Jan Wienold

In our daily lives we are exposed simultaneously to multiple sensory stimuli, such as visual, thermal, acoustic and olfactory. Experienced together, they shape our perception of the environment and determine our comfort. In indoor environments, stimuli are ...

2018

Perceived interest and heart rate response to façade and daylight patterns in Virtual Reality

Marilyne Andersen, Kynthia Chamilothori, Giorgia Chinazzo, Jan Wienold, João Pedro de Matos Rodrigues

This contribution introduces an experimental study aiming to provide concrete evidence on how façade and daylight pattern geometry can affect the emotional responses triggered by a space. The study was conducted in Virtual Reality (VR) where participants w ...

2018

The Effect of Coloured Glazing on Thermal, Visual and Overall Comfort Evaluation

Marilyne Andersen, Giorgia Chinazzo, Jan Wienold

Within the scope of a broader research project about visual and thermal interaction effects on human comfort and perception, the aim of this paper is to study the variation of thermal, visual and overall comfort votes of people exposed to blue and orange g ...

International Colour Association (AIC)2018

A field study investigation on the influence of light level on subjective thermal perception in different seasons

Marilyne Andersen, Giorgia Chinazzo, Jan Wienold, Luisa Pastore

This paper evaluates the influence of light levels (i.e., illuminance) on subjective thermal perception of people, distinguishing between thermal sensation and thermal evaluation. The goal is to investigate whether reported effects found by other studies i ...

NCEUB 20182018

Sensitivity analysis of visual and thermal parameters for energy savings: combining illuminance and temperature set-points for possible trade-offs

Marilyne Andersen, Mathieu Plourde, Joshua Pereira, Giorgia Chinazzo, Jan Wienold

This study presents a methodology for evaluating the effects of simultaneous temperature and illuminance set-point variations on energy consumption. Different illuminance levels are achieved with an innovative dynamic shading control algorithm that allows ...

2017