Editorial: Innovative Human-Centric Investigations and Technologies for Human Wellbeing and Health in the Built Environment

Abstract

The built environment should be designed and operated to create safe, comfortable, and productive 14 spaces for humans. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to understand human responses to 15 environmental stimuli including, but not limited to, thermal, visual, air and acoustic quality ones. Such 16 investigation allows identifying threshold values, indexes and models capturing human responses to 17 environmental stimuli, which in turn can be used to design and control buildings to achieve tailored 18 comfortable, healthy, and productive conditions with a limited energy use. show that, so far, communication between building operators and building occupants plays a more 79 critical role in optimizing or adapting building operations to occupant needs than the data collected by 80 the building automation system, which is mainly used to detect faults in the building systems. 81Overall, the seven papers published in this Frontiers Research Topic corroborate the essential need to 82 conduct human-centric studies to enrich our understanding of the relationship between the built