Occupants’ Interaction With an Occupant Voting System for Thermal and Indoor Air Quality Feedback – Case Studies in Office Spaces

Occupants can provide valuable feedback on the indoor environmental quality of buildings. Research occupant voting systems (OVS) has demonstrated that apps or electronic devices act as viable tools for collecting long-term from occupants. However, previous research only to a limited extent explored occupants’ interaction with OVS and impact it might have reliability collected feedback. The present paper presents three case studies applying tangible OVS, denoted TiAQ, collect thermal air (IAQ) in office spaces. main objective study was first explore TiAQ their motivation. Second, identifying whether could represent comfort discomfort environment IAQ. Thirdly, challenges related affect representativeness conducted at buildings up 7 months suitable environment. On average, one vote cast per day occupant. Additionally, buildings, 60% occupants reported interacted daily weekly when, e.g., passing device going to/from Occupants’ expectations getting “feedback feedback” need be further addressed identify ways sustain use reduce “ill-willed” interactions.