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JOON-HO CHOI / USC:
“User-Centered Environmental Controls as a Function of Human-Building Integration”

Building performance is critical for environmental sustainability, efficient energy consumption, and occupants’ environmental comfort and wellbeing. The research team at USC investigated a novel strategy that would result in the development of an integrated human-centered framework for intelligent building environmental management. The physiological signals of the occupants, as well as their ambient environmental data, were integrated by using sensing agents (such as wearable/remote sensors) and embedded environmental sensors in the building. This research contributes to leading to powerful and tailored building environmental control systems with the potential for dramatically improving the efficiency of a building’s performance, increasing sustainability, and leveraging informatics technology that can improve the occupants’ quality of life.

Dr. Joon-Ho Choi is the Associate Dean of Research and Creative Work, and Associate Professor of Building Science in the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California. He leads the Human-Building Integration Research Lab, and Center for Wellness in the Built Environment as Director. He has been working in the areas of high-performance building and human factors, such as work productivity, environmental comfort/health, and energy efficiency. His primary research interests incorporate human-building integration, indoor environmental quality, and cyber-physical system in a built environment. His expertise is in bio-sensing adaptive environmental control, and human performance quantification, as well as (urban scale) building energy modeling and building optimization.

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