都市空間における人体熱収支と生理心理反応に基づいた体感気候評価の試み

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to assess the effect of thermal environment on the human physiological and psychological responses based on the human heat balance and a proposed new effective temperature for outdoors in urban spaces including a street canyon and an open space in each season. In summer the human heat balance was not necessarily kept at constant, because excess evaporative cooling by sweating occurred in severe hot environment. However, there was strong correlation between the modified new effective temperature for outdoors and thermal sensation/mean skin temperature. Comfort condition in this experiment agreed with the previous ASHRAE and Shimura's comfort envelopes. Consequently, the thermal environment index can indicate the effect of sensational climate on the human responses in urban spaces.