Investigating the gender differences in indoor thermal comfort perception for summer and winter seasons and comparison of comfort temperature prediction methods.

Formulation of indoor thermal comfort guidelines is challenging task considering the fact that these guidelines are supposed to address both, the expectations of the building occupants' regarding indoor thermal comfort, and optimize building energy use, under aggravating conditions of outdoor climate and availability and price volatility of energy. Therefore, a field survey was conducted to assess indoor thermal comfort in two female and three male dormitory buildings. Afterwards, a comparative analysis of three comfort temperature prediction models (linear, cubic and logistic) was conducted.