Implementing a behaviour-based framework for studying the influence of cooking and cleaning on indoor air quality

Mehra, Archit and Gauthier, Stephanie and Nasar, Zaheer A. and Rolfo, Stefano and Jones, Harriet and Moreno Rangel, Alejandro and Zhong, Hua and Ferguson, Robert and Booker, Douglas and Stevenson, Vicki and Phillips, Gavin J. (2021) Implementing a behaviour-based framework for studying the influence of cooking and cleaning on indoor air quality. In: Healthy Buildings 2021-America, 2021-11-09 - 2021-11-11.

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Abstract

Indoor air quality (IAQ) is influenced by a cocktail of air pollutants emitted and formed in situ from a broad range of sources and human activity such as cooking and cleaning. Uncertainties remain in understanding the relationship between human behaviour and air pollutants emissions and dynamics, their emission source strengths and spatial variability in the residential buildings (Braniš et al., 2014; Nazaroff, 2016). A systematic approach to measuring the impact of indoor activities informed by human behaviour is extremely valuable and should allow the extrapolation of experimental findings.