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20202024
most citedHumans-as-a-sensor for buildings: Intensive longitudinal indoor comfort models

140 citations · 284 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

eess.SY2024★ 7 cited

Recommender systems and reinforcement learning for human-building interaction and context-aware support: A text mining-driven review of scientific literature

Wenhao Zhang, Matias Quintana, Clayton Miller

The indoor environment significantly impacts human health and well-being; enhancing health and reducing energy consumption in these settings is a central research focus. With the a…

cs.LG2024★ 27 cited

Creating synthetic energy meter data using conditional diffusion and building metadata

Chun Fu, Hussain Kazmi, Matias Quintana +1

Advances in machine learning and increased computational power have driven progress in energy-related research. However, limited access to private energy data from buildings hinder…

stat.ML2023★ 19 cited

Opening the Black Box: Towards inherently interpretable energy data imputation models using building physics insight

Antonio Liguori, Matias Quintana, Chun Fu +3

Missing data are frequently observed by practitioners and researchers in the building energy modeling community. In this regard, advanced data-driven solutions, such as Deep Learni…

stat.AP2023★ 3 cited

The Building Data Genome Directory -- An open, comprehensive data sharing platform for building performance research

Xiaoyu Jin, Chun Fu, Hussain Kazmi +6

The building sector plays a crucial role in the worldwide decarbonization effort, accounting for significant portions of energy consumption and environmental effects. However, the…

cs.HC2023★ 7 cited

Utilizing wearable technology to characterize and facilitate occupant collaborations in flexible workspaces

Kristi Maisha, Mario Frei, Matias Quintana +3

Hybrid working strategies have become, and will continue to be, the norm for many offices. This raises two considerations: newly unoccupied spaces needlessly consume energy, and th…

cs.HC2022★ 3 cited

Smartwatch-based ecological momentary assessments for occupant wellness and privacy in buildings

Clayton Miller, Renee Christensen, Jin Kai Leong +5

This paper describes the adaptation of an open-source ecological momentary assessment smart-watch platform with three sets of micro-survey wellness-related questions focused on i)…

cs.LG2022★ 56 cited

Cohort comfort models -- Using occupants' similarity to predict personal thermal preference with less data

Matias Quintana, Stefano Schiavon, Federico Tartarini +2

We introduce Cohort Comfort Models, a new framework for predicting how new occupants would perceive their thermal environment. Cohort Comfort Models leverage historical data collec…

cs.LG2022

ALDI++: Automatic and parameter-less discord and outlier detection for building energy load profiles

Matias Quintana, Till Stoeckmann, June Young Park +3

Data-driven building energy prediction is an integral part of the process for measurement and verification, building benchmarking, and building-to-grid interaction. The ASHRAE Grea…

cs.LG2020★ 22 cited

Balancing thermal comfort datasets: We GAN, but should we?

Matias Quintana, Stefano Schiavon, Kwok Wai Tham +1

Thermal comfort assessment for the built environment has become more available to analysts and researchers due to the proliferation of sensors and subjective feedback methods. Thes…

cs.HC2020★ 140 cited

Humans-as-a-sensor for buildings: Intensive longitudinal indoor comfort models

Prageeth Jayathissa, Matias Quintana, Mahmoud Abdelrahman +1

Evaluating and optimising human comfort within the built environment is challenging due to the large number of physiological, psychological and environmental variables that affect…