TY - JOUR TI - Individual difference in thermal comfort: A literature review AU - Wang, Zhe AU - de Dear, Richard AU - Luo, Maohui AU - Lin, Borong AU - He, Yingdong AU - Ghahramani, Ali AU - Zhu, Yingxin T2 - Building and Environment AB - Human individual differences widely and markedly affect thermal comfort and should be carefully considered in the design and operation of the built environment. This paper aims to list and examine the magnitude and significance of individual difference in the preferred/neutral/comfort temperature through reviewing previous climate chamber and field studies. Causal factors for individual differences are investigated, including sex, age and etc. There is no clear and consistent conclusions as to the significance and size of inter-group differences in thermal comfort (between females and males, or the young and the old). To address the issue of individual difference, a paradigm shift from centralized to personalized air condition is on the way with the following three steps: first, collecting individual physiological and psychological response; second, predict individual comfort with machine learning algorithms; and third, accommodating individual difference with Personalized Comfort Systems. DA - 2018/06/15/ PY - 2018 DO - 10.1016/j.buildenv.2018.04.040 DP - ScienceDirect VL - 138 SP - 181 EP - 193 J2 - Building and Environment LA - en SN - 0360-1323 ST - Individual difference in thermal comfort UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360132318302518 Y2 - 2022/06/03/08:46:20 KW - Comfort temperature KW - Individual comfort model KW - Individual difference KW - Personal comfort systems ER -