Abstract
The paper aims to study the correlation between human body fat percentage (BF), human body muscle percentage (BM) and thermal comfort in conditioned environments. With the body fat meter which uses the principle of bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) to determine individual’s body fat and body muscle percentage and both TSV questionnaire and skin temperature to assess thermal comfort, the study considered the both whole-body thermal comfort and parts-of-body thermal comfort in indoor cooling condition. The result shows that there is a significant relationship between the BF and individual thermal comfort as lean people are less sensitive to the cold condition. Meanwhile, the leg part has max fat-comfort relativity, as there is a linear relationship between leg BM/BF and corresponding skin temperature.
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