Abstract:
Thermophsyiological comfort is critical to well-being and optimal productivity of humans. Environmental changes, modern materials and novel occupational settings necessitate evaluation of their impact on comfort and inform both product design and occupational health. We present an open source software tool to simulate thermophysiological comfort for different human geometries, body-constitution conditions, clothing, ambient temperature, humidity and radiative heat flux conditions. The tool, developed using python, integrates a diverse set of models. The components that code the models can be easily replaced and the simulation pipeline can be executed with minimal disruption. The tool provides a user friendly GUI, enabling its use by domain experts without having to know any computer modelling.