Sensorial Performance Score: A Property-Resolution Framework for Measuring How Built and Ecological Environments Shape Human Performance

Environmental epidemiology has established that features of the places people live — greenness, light, noise, air, temperature, biodiversity — are associated with measurable differences in sleep, cardiovascular function, cognition, stress physiology, and mortality. Yet a structural asymmetry limits the field: human biology is increasingly measured at individual resolution (wearables, biobanks), while environmental exposure is typically assigned at neighborhood-to-metropolitan scale, introducing substantial misclassification. We propose the Sensorial Performance Score, a framework that characterizes a single property's environment across six channels — five evidence-mapped (Air, Light, Noise, Thermal, Nature) plus a candidate Microbiome channel under investigation — at the resolution of the dwelling itself, and that is designed to be paired longitudinally with the same occupants' biological markers. Critically, the environmental half of the instrument is already operating: a live property-resolution reading system and a design-build practice that generates dated, field-measured interventions. The contribution here is the method for pairing that operating environmental record with human biology, and a pre-registered test. We describe the channel definitions and their supporting literature, a source-agnostic scoring method that does not require in-dwelling sensors for every property, and a pre-registered within-person (aggregated n-of-1) validation program in which dated environmental interventions are tested against continuously measured human outcomes. Sensorial Performance is offered as an open instrument: a structured way to ask, for a given property and a given person, whether improving the environment measurably improves the body that lives in it.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-06-28
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20993533
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Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
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Sensorial Performance Score: A Property-Resolution Framework for Measuring How Built and Ecological Environments Shape Human Performance

Dorian Dégagé
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
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Sensorial Performance Score: A Property-Resolution Framework for Measuring How Built and Ecological Environments Shape Human Performance

Dorian Dégagé
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Abstract

Environmental epidemiology has established that features of the places people live — greenness, light, noise, air, temperature, biodiversity — are associated with measurable differences in sleep, cardiovascular function, cognition, stress physiology, and mortality. Yet a structural asymmetry limits the field: human biology is increasingly measured at individual resolution (wearables, biobanks), while environmental exposure is typically assigned at neighborhood-to-metropolitan scale, introducing substantial misclassification. We propose the Sensorial Performance Score, a framework that characterizes a single property's environment across six channels — five evidence-mapped (Air, Light, Noise, Thermal, Nature) plus a candidate Microbiome channel under investigation — at the resolution of the dwelling itself, and that is designed to be paired longitudinally with the same occupants' biological markers. Critically, the environmental half of the instrument is already operating: a live property-resolution reading system and a design-build practice that generates dated, field-measured interventions. The contribution here is the method for pairing that operating environmental record with human biology, and a pre-registered test. We describe the channel definitions and their supporting literature, a source-agnostic scoring method that does not require in-dwelling sensors for every property, and a pre-registered within-person (aggregated n-of-1) validation program in which dated environmental interventions are tested against continuously measured human outcomes. Sensorial Performance is offered as an open instrument: a structured way to ask, for a given property and a given person, whether improving the environment measurably improves the body that lives in it.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Eon Corporation (United States) (US)
Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
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