**8. Concluding remarks**

The study reported in this paper set out to investigate the associative relationships between microclimate and physiological responses and well-being. We approached the investigation from the perspective of citizen science, conceptualizing, designing and fabricating what we could. We analyzed the resulting datasets informed by contemporary understandings of data science and machine learning.

Our results suggest that sound level, carbon dioxide concentration and dust con-centration feature more importantly in regression models trained on our datasets. These findings are congruent with preceding studies, and we see a primary contribution of our work as the demonstration that – in an age of anthropogenic climate change – broader cohorts of students, researchers, and the general public have potential access to tools, methods and means of analyses that were once deemed only within the reach of a privileged few due to reasons of cost, fragility, and complexity.

It is our hope that our study contributes in a small way to a body of work to help urban planners, designers of living spaces, caregivers – among many others – conceptualize modes of human habitation in sympathy with the needs of our planet, in an era when humankind has more potential than it has ever had to influence biomes in general for better or for worse.

In conclusion, it is important to seek to understand the complex and non-linear relationships between microclimate, physiological response and well-being. This paper has reported a study conducted by students in which wearable devices containing environmental sensors were designed and worn from July to December 2021. Over the same period, data from these sensors was complemented by that obtained from smartwatches. We hope to contribute to the body of literature on the relationships between microclimate and well-being. It is our hope that this wider body will catalyze subsequent studies to address health problems arising from climate change, in order to boost productivity and life satisfaction in the not too distant future.

*Creativity and Innovation for a Better World*
