Human skin temperature and thermal responses in asymmetrical cold radiation environments

The results show that the cold radiation from the outer window might result in the decreases of local skin temperatures, especially for calf and back. The mean skin temperature is 33.0 °C when subjects felt thermally neutral for the whole body. The results appeared that asymmetrical radiation from the exterior window and clothing has no influence on the preferred mean skin temperature. Overall thermal sensation and mean skin temperature showed a good linear relationship, which showed that human overall thermal sensations may be predicted by their mean skin temperatures. Mean skin temperatures would have less influence on local thermal sensation when local skin temperature was higher than that in neutral condition.