Table 1.

The different house typologies used in experimental house studies. ‘Typical’ householder behaviour means that doors and windows are open in the evening and morning whereas ‘modified’ means that everything is closed all night long. ‘Closed’ eaves mean tubes closed with pieces of tarpaulin to block mosquito entry and prevent airflow. ‘Open’ eaves mean that the plastic tubes of the EaveTubes are left open with no inserts in place to block mosquito entry. By standard house, we mean a typical house design for the villages around the city of Bouake in Cote d'Ivoire. The houses were made of brick and cement, with metal roofs, wooden ceilings, and metal doors and windows with louvres (figure 2) as observed in the area. Each house had one bedroom and one living room, and a covered terrace (figure 1). There were two windows in the living room and two in the bedroom (one in the front and one in the back).

house typologies	standard house	screening + EaveTubes ‘typical’	screening + EaveTubes ‘modified’	EaveTubes	screening	screening + open EaveTubes
householder behaviour	typical	typical	modified	typical	typical	typical
eaves	closed	EaveTubes	EaveTubes	EaveTubes	closed	open
windows	open window slits	screening	screening	open window slits	screening	screening
Experiment 1	✓	✓	✓	✓
Experiment 2	✓	✓		✓	✓
Experiment 3	✓	✓		✓	✓	✓