More than 50 papers on thermal comfort are presented in various meetings and symposia every year in Japan. Topics covered by these papers include comfort zone, the effect of fluctuating air movement and asymmetric thermal radiation on human responses, the dynamic analysis of human responses, psy chological and behavioral aspects of thermal comfort, and the development of environmental indices, to name a few. This paper briefly reviews these investi gations.
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