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With the acceleration of the aging society, the living environment quality for the elderly people has become the focus of the whole society. A lot of research shows that the thermal environment requirement and thermal adaptation behavior of the old people are different from those of young people. Based on the adaptation relationship between human being and building environment, a feedback loop system model of physiological, psychological and behavioral regulation of human adaptation to environment is established, and then a “four-layer skin” regulation mechanism is constructed. This paper also analyses the thermal adaptation behavior and stratified regulation strategies, and further prospects the research direction and focus in the field of thermal adaptation behavior and thermal environment regulation for the elderly people.
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This work is supported by Special Project of Basic Science and Frontier Research Technology of Chongqing Science and Technology Commission in China (No. cstc2017jcyjAX0457).
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Yu, X., Wu, X., Huang, X., Shi, G. (2020). Adaptive Behaviors of Thermal Environment Based on Thermal Comfort for the Elderly People. 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_24
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