2. Comfort: conditions and indicators

2.1 Thermal comfort

For further details, please refer to the article Thermal comfort. of this treatise [33] .

From a physiological point of view, thermal comfort is specific to each individual at a given moment. Indeed, if we consider an individual whose clothing and activity are fixed, there is only one ambient temperature for which the body does not activate its thermoregulatory mechanisms. This is the temperature of neutrality. On this basis, Fanger [4] , like many other authors, has defined thermal comfort as the absence of discomfort. Thus, by considering thermoregulatory phenomena as sources of discomfort,...