Experimental Campaigns for the Assessment of Indoor Personalized Comfort Based on a Multidomain Platform

This paper presents two extended experimental campaigns performed for the assessment of indoor personalized comfort in two different seasons, namely summer and winter. The tests have been integrally performed using a dedicated digital platform developed within the framework of the WEPOP project (WEarable Platform for Optimised Personal comfort, Prot. 2022RKLB3J). Tests were performed within the NEXT.ROOM, an innovative test room aimed at performing multidomain assessment. A dedicated platform guided the participants all along the test protocol, administering surveys for comfort assessment and acquiring and storing data from diverse sensors. Data can be post-processed and correlated to the comfort perceived by the subjects. In particular, the work describes in detail the platform, the experimental campaigns, and the lessons learnt for driving the improvement of tests execution and the consequent quality of the data acquirements. Finally, results are reported in terms of global data description and indications for similar tests. Thoroughly recording the timestamps of the single activities within the test protocol is crucial to post-process the collected data; additionally, the implementation of the whole campaign on a single platform proved to be pivotal to maximizing the participants' concentration and, hence, the data quality.