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. 2020 Jun 4;17(11):3995. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17113995

Table 2.

Overview of Measurements in Selected Studies.

Ref Year Building Type Duration Sample Size Demographics Research Focus IAQ VC § AC TC †† SotA ‡‡ LCS §§ DIY ¶¶ WS ††† BMS ‡‡‡
1 Rogage et al. [35] 2019 Residential (Multi-unit) 6 months - Residents from 7 flats, multi-unit social home building IEQ/OC/STP - - - - - -
2 Clements et al. [36] 2019 Commercial (Office) 18 weeks 8 Office workers OC -
3 Ghahramani et al. [37] 2019 Education (University) 1 day 41 18–24-Year-old students uniformly random mix gender OP - - - - - -
4 Parkinson et al. [20] 2019 Commercial (Office) 3 months - - IEQ - -
5 Coleman and Meggars [38] 2018 Education (University) 8 days - - STP - - - - - -
6 Moreno-Rangel et al. [26] 2018 Residential (Flat) 4 days - - STP - - - - - -
7 Tiele et al. [39] 2018 Laboratory 3 days - - STP - - - -
8 Tijani et al. [40] 2018 Laboratory 1 day - - STP - - - - - -
9 Broderick et al. [23] 2017 Residential (Single-Family) 1 day 55 Non-smoking family with one or two adults and children. The average occupancy of 3.7 per household IEQ - - - - -
10 Földváry et al. [28] 2017 Residential (Multi-Unit) 1 week, x2 94 One participant from each household IEQ - - - - - -
11 Li et al. [32] 2017 Residential Commercial 6 weeks 3 weeks 37 -- OC - -
12 MacNaughton et al. [16] 2017 Commercial (Office) 5 days 109 Office workers aged 20-70 near equal male:female ratio IEQ/OP - - - -
13 Tang et al. [10] 2017 Commercial (Office) 3 weeks - - IEQ - - - - - -
14 Tanguy et al. [41] 2017 Residential (Single-Family) - 8 - STP - - - - - -
15 Tran et al. [42] 2017 Laboratory - - - STP - - - - - -
16 Ali et al. [43] 2016 Lab, Office, Outdoor 7 days - - STP - - - -
17 Coombs et al. [21] 2016 Residential (Multi-Unit) 1 year 64 Predominantly African American 7–12-year-old asthmatic children from low-income families IEQ - - - - - -
18 Allen et al. [34] 2016 Commercial (Office) 2 weeks/6 Days 30/24 Knowledge workers (professional grade employees) IEQ/OP - - - - -
19 Marques and Pitarma [6] 2016 Laboratory - - - STP - - - - - -
20 MiHai and Iordache [44] 2016 Education (University) 5 hours 115 Students and teachers IEQ - - - -
21 Mui et al. [7] 2016 Commercial (Office) - - - IEQ - -
22 Shan et al. [45] 2016 Education (University) 2 days 39 University Students with 6:7 male-female ratio IEQ/OP - - - - - -
23 Salamone et al. [46] 2015 Laboratory 3 days - - STP - - - -
24 Hua et al. [27] 2014 Education (University) 4 weeks 46 20 - 50-year-old students and staff members, with the majority being between 20–29 years old IEQ/OC - - - -
25 McGill et al. [22] 2014 Residential (Multi-Unit) 1 day, x2 13 3 properties with an average of four people per house and at least one smoker in the family - non-smoking IEQ/OC - - - - - - -
26 De Giuli et al. [4] 2012 Education (School) 1 day - Primary school children from seven Italian schools IEQ/OC - - - -
27 Painter Brown et al. [24] 2010 Commercial (Office) 1 month - - STP - - - - - -

Sample size refers to the number of people measured in each study. Indoor Air Quality. § Visual Comfort. ¶ Acoustic Comfort. †† Thermal Comfort. ‡‡ State-of-the-Art. §§ Low-Cost Sensors. ¶¶ ‘Do It Yourself’ Sensors (Standalone electronic sensing components, often run through Arduino/Raspberry Pi). ††† Wearable Sensors. ‡‡‡ Building Management System. Research Focus Key: OC: Occupant Comfort. OP: Occupant Performance. IEQ: Indoor Environment Quality. STP: Sensor Technology Performance.