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In this study, the correlation of human physiological parameters to ambient temperature was evaluated in the temperature range of 21–29 °C. The physiological parameters investigated herein included mean skin temperature (MST), heart rate, the ratio of absolute power in low frequency (LF) and high frequency (HF) bands (LF/HF ratio). The results of ANOVA and R test indicated that MST was correlated to ambient temperature, while LF/HF ratio was not found to be correlated at all. Heart rate was a little more correlate to low temperature than high temperature. The conclusions are significant to select suitable parameters for human thermal response research in the moderate thermal environment.
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This work is supported by the National Science Foundation of China (Grant number 51508434). The authors extend their gratitude to the students of Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology who volunteered to serve as experimental subjects.
Ethical approval All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The committee members are: Xiang Huang, Yuhui Di, Zhixiang Wu, Tianwei Qiang, Ping Fang, Kunrong Jia.
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Wang, L., Chen, Z., Chen, M. (2020). Correlated Thermophysiological Parameters of Human Body in the Moderate Thermal Environment at Sedentary Activity Level. In: Wang, Z., Zhu, Y., Wang, F., Wang, P., Shen, C., Liu, J. (eds) Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (ISHVAC 2019). ISHVAC 2019. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9520-8_1
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