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H. Teufl, C. Berger, A. Mahdavi:
"Aspects of a building affordance assessment protocol";
Talk: Indoor Air 2020, Korea (Virtual Conference); 2020-11-02 - 2020-11-04; in: "The 16th Conference of the International Society of Indoor Air Quality & Climate", H. Hwataik et al. (ed.); Indoor Society of Indoor Air Quality & Climate, (2020), Paper ID ABS-0084, 6 pages.

This paper reports on recent progress in the development of an affordance assessment protocol.
Affordance denotes here the potential of buildings to offer occupants a range of possibilities
to adjust indoor-environmental conditions. In this context, buildings typically offer various
devices or elements (e.g., windows, blinds, luminaires, and radiators) to influence indoorenvironmental
conditions. The proposed affordance assessment protocol documents the
availability of such control devices as well as their effectiveness (spatial distribution,
objective and subjective effectiveness, interface quality, and ecological quality). The
evaluation method is tested for two different office areas. The observations suggest that
protocol users are fairly consistent in judging the principle availability of the control devices.
However, results vary more when the quality of devices are evaluated.

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This paper reports on recent progress in the development of an affordance assessment protocol.
Affordance denotes here the potential of buildings to offer occupants a range of possibilities
to adjust indoor-environmental conditions. In this context, buildings typically offer various
devices or elements (e.g., windows, blinds, luminaires, and radiators) to influence indoorenvironmental
conditions. The proposed affordance assessment protocol documents the
availability of such control devices as well as their effectiveness (spatial distribution,
objective and subjective effectiveness, interface quality, and ecological quality). The
evaluation method is tested for two different office areas. The observations suggest that
protocol users are fairly consistent in judging the principle availability of the control devices.
However, results vary more when the quality of devices are evaluated.

Indoor environment, control devices and interfaces, affordance