d Hungarian Institute for the Building Science, Hungary
e Tsukuba College of Technology, Japan
f Taisei Corporation, Japan
g Hitachi, Ltd., Japan
Abstract:
1. 1. For the scientific evaluation of thermal environment in relatin to human health and comfort, a number of indices have been proposed in the recent 70 years.
2. 2. However, even the newest indices are still not sufficient to explain the general thermal environment for all people including infants, the aged, the disabled etc., because such indices are based more or less on experiments using college age persons.
3. 3. Series of studies to find required thermal conditions for the disabled and the aged have been carried out from 1976 in Japan and from 1988 in Hungary.
4. 4. In 1990, the Japanese and Hungarian research groups have collaborated in an international joint experiment on the thermal environment for the disabled.
5. 5. This paper reports on the results from the first step examinations of the data from above mentioned joint experiment.
Author Keywords: Disabled; thermal environment; health; comfort; international experiment