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Thermal comfort is a personal assessment of one's satisfaction with the surroundings. Yet, most thermal comfort delivery mechanisms preclude physiological and psychological precursors to thermal comfort. Accordingly, many people feel either cold or hot in an environment that is supposedly thermally comfortable to most people. To address this issue, this paper proposes to use people's heart rate variability (HRV) as an alternative indicator of thermal comfort. Since HRV is linked to homeostasis, we hypothesize that it could be used to predict people's thermal comfort status. To test our hypothesis, we analyzed statistical, spectral, and nonlinear HRV indices of 17 human subjects doing light office work in a cold, a neutral, and a hot environment. The resulting HRV indices were used as inputs to machine learning classification algorithms. We observed that HRV is distinctively altered depending on the thermal environment and that it is possible to steadfastly predict each subject's thermal environment (cold, neutral, and hot) with up to a 93.7% prediction accuracy. The result of this study implies that it could be possible to design automatic real-time thermal comfort controllers based on people's HRV.

Heart rate variability as an indicator of thermal comfort state