Abstract
1. 1. Subjects were studied at ambient temperatures (Ta) of 33, 29 and 25°C and allowed to select a T-shirt to wear and the temperature of a copper piping to hold on to. 2. 2. Five kinds of T-shirts were available for selection varying in texture from soft to hard. The choice of temperature for the copper piping was 24, 27, 30, 33, 36 or 39°C. 3. 3. Softer clothing and higher temperature of piping were preferred when Ta was decreased from 33 to 25°C. 4. 4. Wearing a water perfused cooling cap on the head changed the subjects' preference from hard to soft T-shirts, and from cold to warm piping. 5. 5. A physical model of the air-space between the subject's hand and the fabric was built. It showed that the temperature of the clothing surface increased to a greater extent with soft clothes than hard clothes under a rapid increase of humidity in the air-space.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 327-332 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Journal of Thermal Biology |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 1995 |
Keywords
- behavioral temperature regulation
- Clothing selection
- cooling cap
- set-point
- soft or hard clothing