Investigation on the Relationship Between Occupants' Individual Difference and AIr-Conditioning Usage During Nighttime in Summer

The necessity of research on the occupants' behavior has become more important due to the realization of its impact on the exergy consumption profiles within the built environment. In order to learn more about the occupants' behavior, an intensive study was conducted with the participation of a number of international students living in a dormitory in Tokyo. The behavioral patterns of 39 students were analyzed according to their usage of the air-conditioning units using the logit model. There is a certain relationship between mean outdoor air temperature and the percentage of air-conditioning usage, but there seems also a variety of behavioral patterns. The analysis showed that the preference of the control strategy of the thermal environment and the evaluation of its efficiency seem to have a highly significant correlation and that the occupants' climatic background has some influence on their behavior.