A mixed methods design for building occupants’ energy behavior research

摘要: Abstract Occupant behavior is viewed as a main source causing the building energy performance gap between predicted and actual consumption. The nature of occupants’ research requires combination social science natural science, which indicates that mixed methods design would be useful. However, researchers often do not know when how approach should used. To fill this gap, paper first reviewed adopted in 230 relevant articles published past decade. results show 83.48% applied quantitative methods, followed by (5.22%) qualitative (0.87%) with rest being pure review or conceptual papers. This shows field occupant mainly adopt objectivist philosophical position. Subsequently, an in-depth analysis methodologies was conducted relation to worldviews assumptions, advantages disadvantages were discussed. Finally, framework proposed point departure for gain comprehensive understanding design. It expected could help develop proper according their problem.