Special Issue on Advanced Data Analytics and Technologies for Decoding Human Health and Well-Being in Built Environments

Abstract

This special issue (SI) on advanced data analytics and technologies for decoding human health and well-being in built environments that comes to partial closure in this issue is a necessary first step in a larger and longer conversation centered on the well-being of the people within built environments. The discussion started in 2022 with an International Workshop in Nottingham, UK, funded by the US National Science Foundation. The workshop, titled “Biosensing-Enabled, Wellbeing-Centric Sustainable Built Environment Ecosystems,” covers the topics of human health and well-being, and the use of data and building energy technologies were discussed amply by a group of experts from the USA and the UK. Fundamental questions in this conversation include how it may be possible to measure and quantify human well-being in different contexts of indoor and outdoor environments, workplaces, or health centers and how technology at different scales and components, from the individual scale to the outdoor, community environments, can enable a reasonable state of well-being.