Project Coolbit: Can your watch predict heat stress and thermal comfort sensation?

• Main Authors: NAZARIAN, Negin, LIU, Sijie, KOHLER, Manon, LEE, Jason, MILLER, Clayton, CHOW, Winston T. L., ALHADAD, S. B. B., MARTILLI, Alberto, QUINTANA, Matias, SUNDEN, Lindsey, NORFORD, Lindsey
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: heat stress; thermal comfort; wearable technologies; personalized heat exposure; urban climate; Computer Sciences; Environmental Sciences; Place and Environment
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3285; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4545/viewcontent/Nazarian_etal_2020.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Global climate is changing as a result of anthropogenic warming, leading to higher daily excursions of temperature in cities. Such elevated temperatures have great implications on human thermal comfort and heat stress, which should be closely monitored. Current methods for heat exposure assessments...