Journal
JOURNAL OF THERMAL BIOLOGY
Volume 29, Issue 7-8, Pages 549-558Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2004.08.024
Keywords
core temperature; skin temperature; human thermoregulation; localized heating; localized cooling
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1. Human subjects were exposed to partial- and whole-body heating and cooling in a controlled environmental chamber to quantify physiological and subjective responses to thermal asymmetries and transients. 2. Skin temperatures, core temperature, thermal sensation, and comfort responses were collected for 19 local body parts and for the whole body. 3. Core temperature increased in response to skin cooling and decreased in response to skin heating. 4. Hand and finger temperatures fluctuated significantly when the body was near a neutral thermal state. 5. When using a computer mouse in a cool environment, the skin temperature of the hand using the mouse was observed to be 2-3 degreesC lower than the unencumbered hand. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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