Using wearable sensors to detect thermal preference in the field
Paper published in Building and Environment Again, we are experiencing another hot summer this year. Temperature neared 110 °F in…
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What is Our Mission?
Our mission is to promote the wellbeing of both buildings and their occupants through a multidisciplinary approach. Our definition for wellbeing is Sustainability, Resilience, and Circularity for buildings, and Comfort, Health, and Happiness for occupants.Why Building Occupants Signal Synthesis?
We strongly believe that the advancement of sensing and artificial intelligence dramatically promotes our understanding of how buildings perform in this changing climate, from various perspectives of the wellbeing of buildings. All the data obtained from buildings, no matter of energy flow or environmental quality, are sort of signals in the generic context. Apparently, occupants’ demands for wellbeing are requested through their signals such as behaviors like actions or speech, bio-signals like heartbeats, and even body odors. When the signals from both buildings and occupants are synthesized, we can ultimately obtain a clearer picture of the network of these two complex systems and their interaction to enhance the wellbeing of both.Why WPI?
We believe that a multidisciplinary approach is the only way to fulfill our mission. Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has developed several cross-cutting research areas including, Robotics, Internet of Things, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing, and Health. All of these areas can be strong pillars to support us to succeed.News & Activities
August 19, 2019 / Publication
January 14, 2019 / Publication
Best paper award by Building and Environment Journal
Our paper titled “Automated mobile sensing: Towards high-granularity agile indoor environmental quality monitoring” (link) published in Building and Environment has won…
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November 30, 2018 / Publication
New paper: Particle swarm optimization method to identify particle sources
Feng, Q., Cai, H., Li, F., Liu, X., Liu, S. and Xu, J., 2019. An improved particle swarm optimization method…
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September 1, 2018 / People
Welcome Chao Wang to BOSS
Chao Wang has joined in the BOSS lab for his PhD in Civil Engineering. He received his Master’s degree from Southern Methodist…
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August 4, 2018 / Outreach
Dr. Liu presented in Indoor air conference 2018
The Indoor Air 2018 conference just took place in Philadelphia a few days ago. It was a phenomenal conference again….
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May 24, 2018 / Publication
New paper: CFD airflow simulation of a ceiling fan
Energy constraints encourage the use of energy-effective electrical appliances such as ceiling fans to achieve indoor thermal comfort,…
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May 19, 2018 / Publication
New paper: robot sensing for indoor environmental quality
Do you have a robot vacuum cleaner in your house? Have you thought that such a tiny robot may be…
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September 20, 2017 / Publication
New paper: air change effectiveness at heating mode
Hot air does not want to come down just because it can float above the cold one. We published…
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August 26, 2017 / Publication
New paper: Indoor Environmental Quality Monitoring by Autonomous Mobile Sensing
The paper has been accepted to ACM Buildsys 2017. Indoor climate monitoring is crucial for building agility, enabling indoor environmental…
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