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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Designed environment"”.
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The clinic and the community: exploring the role of the designed environment in the creation of social value
… can function as social entrepreneurs, using the designed environment as a critical resource to address health and wellness issues within the community beyond their usual medical services. By taking this approach, organizations would not only help mitigate social problems within the community but …
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The still point and other observations
… order and clarity might be brought to the designed environment.
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Reading context in design
… lies in the way in which the natural and built environment of the site might relate to the larger urban context and its extensive systems and tightly controlled parts. It attempts to extract the essential elements of form and space in the natural and designed environment, and to discover their …
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Design of environments to control robotic behavior
… adaptation to an uncontrollable or unpredictable environment, there are still many applications in which a custom made interactive environment is not only feasible, but preferable. By developing an understanding of how a well designed environment can effect or control a robot's actions and …
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Beyond visualization : designing interfaces to contextualize geospatial data
The growing sensor data collections about our environment have the potential to drastically change our perception of the fragile world we live in. To make sense of such data, we commonly use visualization techniques, enabling public discourse and analysis. This thesis describes the design and …
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Stop, Talk & Learn: socialization in a university open space
… of socialization may prosper by altering the environment to improve opportunities for socialization. Socialization, or interpersonal contact, is a primary determinant in the formation of individual characteristics and behavior. The experiences to which one is exposed contribute to personal …
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An examination of the impact of medical-surgical nursing unit configuration on nurses’ communication using space syntax theory.
The work environment of nurses is complicated, stressful, detail-oriented, and influences patient outcomes. Communication between nurses and members of the patient care team is critical to the delivery of quality healthcare and also builds social support among nurses. This exploratory study focuses …
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Design for the Museum for the Native American Indian
… at the largest scale, the new museum will be a designed environment, a reflective place, comprised of spaces which create an understanding of a culture.
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Software tectonics
… cast a new operative role to the notion of environment. Instead of being the passive, conceptualized or historicized context of an architectural object, environment is quite literally becoming the object of design itself. We are moving away from the imposed-preconceived Cartesian object …
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Improving Human Safety through Integrated Autonomous Motion Planning
Workers in dangerous, unstructured environments face an increased risk of injury from collisions with heavy equipment or moving objects. To improve human safety in these scenarios, visual feedback is recommended to enhance a person’s situational awareness and reduce the number of collisions. …
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Collision and Avoidance Modelling of Autonomous Vehicles using Genetic Algorithm and Neural Network
… methods to avoid collisions in a predefined environment. The contributions of this thesis are that (1) a simulation model had been developed using Matlab for collision avoidance and serval scenarios were proposed and experimented with. The sensors are used as the inputs to determine collision …
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Structured evaluation of attitudes to dwelling environments : people’s subjective assessments of preference satisfaction and meaning as indicators of architectural design performance
… may be applied to investigations of various man-environment relationships and specifically of the contributions of Architecture in those relationships, - in this case within dwelling-environments. The other aspect of it, is an attempt to ascertain through people's subjective assessments, the …