ABSTRACT
The tools and technologies that are necessary for the sensing data collection aspects for human, environment, and material measures are presented in this chapter. Current state-of-the-art noninvasive, wearable biosensor devices alongside embedded material sensors and environmental sensor packages now give us the means to quantify stress, health, and wellness outcomes in different built environments. Expanded measurement technologies include neurosensing to inform the brain science of built environment impact and microbial sensing to help characterize the microbiome. Tools used for other apsects of human health and wellbeing research for built environments are presented. These include virtual reality headsets, life cycle analysis calculation tools, fisheye lens photography tools, and machine learning algorithms. Each of these tools and technologies is enabling new ways of considering the impacts of built environment design on human health and wellbeing. These technologies are ever-changing in a rapidly advancing field, so the general necessity for considering appropriate modes of measurement (sensing, simulation, calculation, survey, photograph, etc.) is provided. In addition, the authors address the fundamental science and knowledge for how these sensing technologies and measurement tools function in application.
