Occupants' thermal comfort: State of the art and the prospects of personalized assessment in office buildings

This paper aims to monitor and discuss the evolution of methodological approaches regarding the determination of comfort. The methodological approach is based on the analysis of published literature and on the funding of dedicated research projects, in order to highlight the research focus over the last decade. As demonstrated from the research, the need of working towards personalized assessment of comfort, putting the occupants' perspective in the epicenter and highlighting the key issues that have still to be tackled in that direction, is an innovative approach that needs further analysis.