Optimizing comfort for nurses in high-stress situations with sensors

Vineet Kamat

Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Carol Menassa

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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When nurses in high-stress situations get uncomfortably warm, they may remove face masks and other protective equipment. To tackle this problem, researchers try dynamically adjusting a room’s temperature based on sensors worn by the nurses.