This paper describes a practice- based research project in which physical and emotional comfort and discomfort is experienced by the human body. A variety of different Comfort Zones are presented. All of them deal with the relationship between filling material and cover, in which knitted structures and materials play a central role in order to create comfort. The elasticity of the knit is challenged when creating volume and emphasizes the idea that comfort is elastic in material/physical way, as well as well in emotions. The use of filling materials gives a new dimension, sensitivity and offers new opportunities. This form exploration discusses the potential of knit to serve as a cover and decorative element, but most importantly the possibility of a textile to create its own filling. By rolling up a knitted tube, volume is built up layer by layer; a torus appears and captures a void in the center of the form, required by the tube, the fundament. Hints of discomfort are given and emphasized by either surface/structure, volume or garments on the body.

<div>With the rise of individuals’ interests in travelling for a meaningful experience, travelers today not only immerse themselves in consuming food for pleasure but also seek to gain meaningful outcomes. In particular, local food consumption experiences can facilitate travelers to enhance their sense of competence and perceived personal growth, referred to as eudaimonic wellbeing. As travelers experience the culture of the destination and enjoy the sense of exoticness through consumption of local food, they can recognize their capabilities and learn better about themselves through contrast with others. Yet, limited knowledge exists on the higher-level outcomes of such an experience and the process through which travelers encounter local food.</div><div><br></div><div>Therefore, the first study proposed to understand the procedures through which travelers experience local food, utilizing symbolic interactionism as a theoretical perspective. According to symbolic interactionists, role-playing is a paramount process that shapes individuals’ behaviors and experiences (Hewitt, 1976). Accordingly, this study outlined the role-playing process for each role-taking (taking the role of others to understand their role and associated expectations) and role-making (playing their own role and acting based on related expectations). In role-taking, four themes were identified including Utilization of Symbolic Cues, Imitating, Simulation of Other’s Position, and Comparison with Expected Characteristic of a Role. For role-making processes, three themes emerged including Performance of One’s Regular Role, Disassociation of Self from One’s Role, and Creation of a Desired Role. As such, various role-playing activities were identified as critical means through which travelers determine their behavior and appraisal of their local food consumption experience. Such a finding is valuable in extending the existing literature that mostly paid attention to cognition or emotion as the procedures through which people construct their experience (Hume, Mort, Liesch, & Winzar, 2006).</div><div><br></div><div>To understand the higher-level outcome of local food consumption experience that relates to eudaimonic wellbeing, the second study investigated changes in self-concept based on travelers’ encounters with local food. Individuals’ food choice behaviors or food practices have been identified as important bearers of their identity in the general food consumption literature (Valli & Traill, 2005). Yet, travelers’ food consumption activities have been mostly viewed merely as a pleasurable pursuit in the food and tourism studies (Kivela & Crotts, 2006). In line with the characteristic of one’s self-concept being subject to change (Festinger, 1954), the second study explored whether and how travelers modify their self-concept through their local food consumption experiences. The findings showed that self-concept change took place in terms of two themes of General Self-Concept and Eating Self-Concept. Within General Self-Concept, four aspects of self-concept appeared to have changed or emerged including Superiority, Satisfaction, Cultural Competency, and Appreciation. As for Eating Self-Concept, it was found that travelers’ self-concept changes involved Mindful Eating, International Food Expertise, and Eating Characteristics. Some of the factors that caused these self-concept modifications include the characteristic of local food experience being challenging, representative of local culture and identity, and exotic. Therefore, the findings are valuable in demonstrating local food consumption experience as a case in which people can change how they view themselves, what specifically change, and how they change based on their encounters with local food.</div><div><br></div><div>The third study aimed to investigate emotional bonding with the place, place attachment, as another outcome that is associated with eudaimonic wellbeing. Attention was paid to how travelers’ psychological comfort plays a role in their place attachment development. In addition, such an influence of psychological comfort on place attachment was explored by comparing Koreans and Americans to contrast possible cultural differences between the two groups regarding the degree to which comfort is valued in forming their place attachment level. Specifically, comfort was measured for three major elements of the local food consumption experience including atmospherics, interaction with service providers, and food. The findings showed that comfort with all three elements can influence travelers’ place attachment levels and that individuals from different cultures can vary in the degree to which comfort shapes their place attachment levels. Thus, this study expands our knowledge by proposing comfort with local food consumption experience as a critical trigger of emotional bonding development between travelers and the travel destination.</div><div><br></div><div>The synthesis of these key findings from the three studies explicates how travelers’ eudaimonic wellbeing can be enhanced from an overarching viewpoint. In line with the basic premise of self-determination theory which suggests that one’s eudaimonic wellbeing is promoted when three psychological needs (competence, autonomy, and relatedness) are satisfied (Deci & Ryan, 1985), propositions were outlined regarding how these psychological needs can be met through role-playing activity, self-concept change, and place attachment development based on consuming local food. As one’s general wellbeing comprises both hedonic and eudaimonic wellbeing (Ryff & Keyes, 1995), the linkage proposed between local food consumption experience and eudaimonic wellbeing complements the current view that has been focused on hedonic aspects of travelers’ local dining experience.</div>

Actualmente, a nivel global se ha desarrollado una pandemia la cual ha afectado a sociedades, empresas de algunos rubros las cuales han tenido que dejar de operar, como las peluquerías, barberías y centro de estética por ser posibles focos de infección. Dentro de esta coyuntura, se refuerza la idea de negocio que nació de la creciente necesidad del cuidado de la imagen personal y ahorrar tiempo. Como también la necesidad de agentes dedicados al rubro de belleza de tener presencia digital de sus negocios y de tener mayor alcance de sus servicios. De esta manera nace Be Hasty, una aplicación que sirve como espacio para concertar citas a domicilio dentro de una amplia opción de empresas conocidas, peluquerías pequeñas o servicios independientes. Por ello, para validar la aceptación de nuestra idea de negocio se realizaron encuestas, entrevistas, se plantearon metas, estrategias, se estimó también el mercado potencial y la valoración del mismo. La aplicación se dará a conocer, principalmente, a través de marketing digital en Facebook, Instagram e Influencer’s y activaciones. Para la implementación el proyecto se proyecta una inversión de S/ 34, 073 soles, la cual será financiada al 100% por los fundadores. Finalmente, Be Hasty tiene el propósito de satisfacer las necesidades de nuestros potenciales clientes, a través de una aplicación atractiva y fácil de usar. Por un lado, como medio que ayude a las empresas en su reactivación comercial y a la persona a poder ayudarlos a llegar a tratar de seguir con su estilo de vida. / Nowadays, in the world has developed a pandemic, which has affected societies and companies in many areas, which have had to stop operating, such as hairdressers, barbershops and beauty centers for being possible places of infection. Within this conjuncture, the business idea was born of the growing need to take care of personal image and save time is reinforced. In addition, the need for agents dedicated to beauty industry to have a digital presence of their businesses and to have many guest. This is how Be Hasty was born, an application who serves as a site to make appointments within a wide choice of beauty companies, small hairdressers or independent services. For this reason, to validate the acceptance of our business idea, surveys, interviews, defined goals, strategies, the potential market and its valuation was estimated. The application will be mainly known through digital marketing on Facebook, Instagram, influencers and activations. An investment of S / 34,073 soles is going to be needed for the implementation of the project, which will be financed 100% by the founders. Finally, Be Hasty aims to satisfy the needs of our potential guest, through an attractive and easy-to-use application. Chiefly help companies in the business recovery and to help persons to try to continue with their lifestyle. / Trabajo de investigación

Providing conditioned and fully controlled room is the final goal for having a comfortable building. But on the other hand making smart controllers to provide the required cooling or heating load depending on occupants' real time feeling is necessary. This study has emphasized on finding a meaningful and steady state parameter in human body that can be interpreted as comfort criterion which can be expressed as the general occupants' sensation through their ambient temperature. There are lots of researches on human physiological behavior in different situations and also different body parts reaction to the same ambient situation. Body parts which have the biggest reliable linear fluctuation to the changes are the best subject for this research. For these tests, wrist and palm have been selected and their temperatures on different people have been measured accurately with thermal camera to follow the temperature trend on various comfort levels. It is found that each person reaches to his own unique temperature on these two spots, when he/ she feels comfortable, or in other word each person's body temperature is a precise nominate for comfort feeling of that individual. So in future by having this unique comfort parameter and applying them to the HVAC system temperature control, controlling the dynamic temperature and correlating the indoor condition depending on the occupants instant thermal comfort level, would be a rational choice to bring convenience while energy has been saved more.

With the development of media framing research on the issue of comfort women, people have gradually realized that the media's interpretation of the issue of comfort women will have a considerable impact on the understanding of this issue. The image of comfort women was also established in this process. The different framings all contain different perspectives and historicities. The feminist framing is an important media framing in addition to nationalism and class. It is not only an important framing that accompanies the development of feminism, but also an important way to liberate comfort women from other framings with a new vision including women's human rights. However, the research devoted to the feminist framing has not yet been systematized and mature, and more comprehensive and in-depth research is needed. This master's thesis, as an attempt to explore the feminist framing of the issue of comfort women by the news media, also serves this purpose. For this reason, out of consideration of both locality and internationality, 40 articles on the issue of comfort women in the four English-language media of The New York Times, The Guardian, The Japan Times, and The Korea Times were selected as the material for the analysis of the feminist framing. The 20 articles from 2015 and the other 20 articles from 2021/2021 will be used as framing and critical discourse analysis to show the changes brought about by the feminist movement. The research results of this master's thesis also found that there is an inevitable connection between feminist framing and other types of framing.

Termisk komfort har en avgörande roll för människors välmående och trivsel i inomhusmiljöer. Alltför ofta underskattas materialens betydelse för termisk komfort och ventilationssystem överskattas, men faktum är att grundförutsättningar för termisk komfort påverkas mest av materialrelaterade faktorer. Exempelvis så fort vi stiger in i ett rum, börjar vi förlora och erhålla värme till och från olika material i vår omgivning på grund av materialens strålningsegenskaper, när vi går barfota på ett golv som är svalare än vår fot börjar värme strömma från vår fot till materialet på grund av materialets värmeledningsegenskaper och vid svängningar i utomhustemperaturen är det i första hand materialens värmetröghet som avgör jämnheten för inomhustemperaturen. Rapportens syfte kommer ligga i identifikation av egenskaper som påverkar termisk komfort iträ- och betongkonstruktioner, samt att undersöka i vilken utsträckning dessa egenskaper som påverkar termisk komfort skiljer mellan materialen. Trots att det finns tillräckligt mycket kunskap relaterad till byggmaterial för att besvararapportens syfte, saknas det en studie som utrett och jämfört vilka egenskaper som skiljer mellan trä- och betongkonstruktioner och i vilken utsträckning i avseende på termisk komfort. Av den anledningen kommer denna rapport att vara en forsknings- och litteraturöversikt, men är unik på så sätt att analysen binder samman byggnadsmaterials egenskaper och termisk komfort. Det byggnadsmaterialet vars egenskaper skapade bäst grundförutsättningar för rekommenderad termisk komfort visade sig vara betong. Den största anledningen är betongens höga värmetröghet, med andra ord betongens förmåga att lagra värme från dagen då det är varmare och släppa ut på natten då det är kallare, vilket bidrar till att en relativt jämn innetemperatur uppnås. / Thermal comfort has a decisive role for the well-being and overall comfort for humans in indoor environments. Too often, the importance of materials is underestimated for thermal comfort and ventilation systems are overestimated, but the fact is that basic conditions for thermal comfort are mostly affected by material related factors. For example, as soon as we walk into a room, we begin to lose and gain heat to and from different material in our environment because of the radiation properties of the material. When we place a warm foot on a cooler floor, heat will flow from our foot to the material due to the thermal conductivity of the material and when fluctuations occur in the outdoor temperature, it is primarily the thermal effusivity of thematerial that determines the smoothness of the indoor temperature. The purpose of this report is to identify the properties that affect thermal comfort in wood and concrete structures, as well as to investigate to which extent these properties affecting the rmalcomfort differ between the materials. Although there is enough knowledge related to building materials to answer my purpose, there is no study that analyses and compares which characteristics distinguish between wood and concrete structures and to what extent in terms of thermal comfort. For this reason, this report will be a research and literature review, but it is unique in that it binds together building materials characteristics and thermal comfort. The building material whose properties created the best conditions for recommended thermal comfort proved to be concrete. The biggest reason is the high thermal effusivity of concrete, in other words, the ability to store heat during the day when it is warmer and release it at night when it is colder, which results in a relatively even internal temperature.

The diploma thesis deals with the design of an automated testbed for mechanical stress testing of electrical screwdrivers. When designing an automated testbed, real-time measurements were used. The work deals with the transfer of measured data using MQTT from a remote computer to the PLC and with the HMI to increase user comfort. The main priority of the work was to simplify the hardware and thus reduce the cost of the automated testbed.

This diploma thesis is focused on the matter of radiation heating, thermal comfort maintenance and setting optimal operation parameters for heating system equipped with radiation panels. The research section summarizes the effects most important for thermal comfort, methods of its determination, heat exchange distribution between the human body and its environment, and technical possibilities of heating car interiors. The central points of this work are the simulation of car interiors heated with radiation panels and the evaluation of thermal comfort with a virtual mannequin. Thermal state was determined via the equivalent temperature and thermal comfort zones diagram (method by O.H. Nilsson). Forty-two simulated scenarios led us to conclude that thermal comfort is not possible to obtain with panels exuding a maximum temperature of 43 °C and the combination of several heat sources is required. Nevertheless radiation heating considerably contributes to energy savings without the loss of thermal comfort in assessed car.

This thesis is concerned with the creation of indoor air and requirements on it, describes the components of the internal environment, in particular the formation of carbon dioxide and its properties. It also deals with the experimental measurement of the concentration of carbon dioxide in the classrooms and the subsequent evaluation according to the valid legal regulations. In the last part, I dealt with a proposal for the creation of internal systems that are specified by the building.

The task of this master´s thesis is an evaluation of warm-air heating system in a low energy family house from the viewpoint of thermal comfort during winter season. The CFD simulation using CCM+ code was used for this purpose. The environment parameters in the central living room were evaluated for two variants – with underfloor heating and without it. The thermal comfort was evaluated using indices according ČSN EN ISO 7730 standard.