Thermal comfort and childcare, Kerala, India
Thermal comfort and childcare, Kerala, India
This research investigates what thermal comfort means to children living in institutionalized care in Kerala by evaluating their adaptive behavior. While there are research on thermal comfort and children, there are no available data on children from vulnerable backgrounds or living in care system. Field study methods like comfort surveys, environmental measurements and semi-structured interviews were adopted. One Boys Home and one Girls Home were selected and collected total 90 responses. Some children despite mentioning the environment was hot/warm also related to it as slightly comfortable, this major finding establishes the wider tolerance range to the environment. Lack of thermal memory and no access to thermal controls resulted the children having higher thermal acceptability rate. There was disparity in responses between genders. Girls had strong preference and expectations from their environment while boys were more acceptable and tolerant of their environment even during the heat waves recorded during study.
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15 September 2023
Ibrahim, Afrin
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Ibrahim, Afrin
(2023)
Thermal comfort and childcare, Kerala, India.
Gauthier, Stephanie, Nicol, Fergus, Brotas, Luisa and Schiano-Phan, Rosa
(eds.)
12th Masters Conference: People and Buildings, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom.
15 Sep 2023.
6 pp
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(doi:10.5258/SOTON/P1136).
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This research investigates what thermal comfort means to children living in institutionalized care in Kerala by evaluating their adaptive behavior. While there are research on thermal comfort and children, there are no available data on children from vulnerable backgrounds or living in care system. Field study methods like comfort surveys, environmental measurements and semi-structured interviews were adopted. One Boys Home and one Girls Home were selected and collected total 90 responses. Some children despite mentioning the environment was hot/warm also related to it as slightly comfortable, this major finding establishes the wider tolerance range to the environment. Lack of thermal memory and no access to thermal controls resulted the children having higher thermal acceptability rate. There was disparity in responses between genders. Girls had strong preference and expectations from their environment while boys were more acceptable and tolerant of their environment even during the heat waves recorded during study.
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Published date: 15 September 2023
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12th Masters Conference: People and Buildings, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom, 2023-09-15 - 2023-09-15
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