In-Gauge and En-Gage: Understanding Occupants' Behaviour, Engagement, Emotion, and Comfort Indoors with Heterogeneous Sensors and Wearables

We conducted a field study at a K-12 private school in the suburbs of
Melbourne, Australia. The datasets contained two elements: (1) In-Gauge
dataset: we conducted a 5-month longitudinal field study using two outdoor
weather stations, as well as **indoor weather stations** in 17 classrooms and
**temperature sensors** on the vents of occupant-controlled room air-
conditioners; these were collated into individual datasets for each classroom
at a 5-minute logging frequency, including additional data on occupant
presence. (2) En-Gage dataset: we tracked 23 students and 6 teachers in a
4-week cross-sectional study En-Gage, using wearable sensors to log
physiological data **** ( **electrodermal activity** , **heart rate** ,
**blood column pulse** , **skin temperature** , **3-axis acceleration** ), as
well as daily surveys to query the occupants' **thermal comfort** , **learning
engagement** , **emotions** and **seating behaviours**. Overall, the combined
dataset could be used to analyse the relationships between indoor/outdoor
climates and students ' behaviours/mental states on campus, which provide
opportunities for the future design of intelligent feedback systems to benefit
both students and staff.