Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering (설비공학논문집)

The Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea (대한설비공학회)
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Evaluation of Thermal Comfort during Sleeping in Summer - Part II : About mean Skin Temperatures and Physiological Signals -

여름철 수면시 온열쾌적감 평가 -제 2보 : 평균 피부온도 및 생리신호에 관하여 -

  • Kim Dong-Gyu (Global Environment Engineering) ;
  • Kum Jong-Soo (Department of Mechnical Engineering, Pukyung National University) ;
  • Park Jong-Il (Department of Building System Engineering, Dongeui University)
  • Published : 2006.01.01
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Abstract

This study was performed to evaluate sleep efficiencies and conditions for comfortable sleep based on the analysis of EEGs and MST under four thermals conditions. Five female subjects who have similar life cycle and sleep patterns were participated for the sleep experiment. Their age was from 20 to 22 years old. They were healthy, and had regular sleep with consistent bed and wakeup time. It was checked whether they had a good sleep before the night of experiment. Experiments were performed in an environmental chamber of $4.1\times4.9\times2.7m$ size. EEGs were obtained from C3-A2 and C4-Al electrode sites. Sleep stages were classified, then TST, SWS latency and SWS/TST were calculated for the evaluation for sleep efficiencies on thermal conditions. As results, it was concluded that indoor thermal environments of $24\~26^{\circ}C$ was the best for comfortable and deep sleep.

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