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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Human-building interaction"”.
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Indoor Human Sensing for Human Building Interaction
… occupants where their movement patterns, and interactions can be shared, recorded, and studied in order to improve the occupants' efficiency and satisfaction. Specifically, we use sensor networks and ubiquitous computing to create smart built environments that are seamlessly aware of and …
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Towards Immersive Virtual Environments using 360 Cameras for Human Building Interaction Studies
… built environment for different purposes such as building design and occupant behavior studies in the post construction stage – i.e., Human Building Interaction. This research has investigated a workflow for different alternatives of reality-capturing-based technologies that have been tested to …
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Anonymous Indoor Positioning System using Depth Sensors for Context-aware Human-Building Interaction
… for smarter management of energy consumption in buildings. An interconnected passive depth-sensor-based system of occupants' positioning was investigated for human-building interaction applications. This research investigates the fundamental requirements for depth-sensing technology to detect, …
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Analyzing the evolving trends of the sustainable built environment
Sustainable buildings have been accepted as one of the most effective solutions among stakeholders in the construction industry to achieve the goal of promoting environmentally friendly, economic responsible and social harmonious built environment. Throughout the approximately thirty-year-evolving …
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User-centered evaluations of multi-modal building interfaces
In the evolving landscape of building systems and human-building interaction (HBI), the complexity of building interfaces has significantly increased, posing both challenges and opportunities for enhancing energy consumption, indoor environmental quality (IEQ), and building services. This …
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Human-Building Symbiotic Communication with Voice-based Proactive Smart Home Assistants
… in the form of user commands to control building systems does not result in the optimal course of actions. As such, in this thesis, we proposed the concept of proactive smart home assistants and explored the occupants' perception towards smart home assistants proactively providing …
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Rethinking Smart Home Design: Integrating Architectural Perspectives and Technologically-driven Design Thinking within a Framework
… from related disciplines, i.e., architecture, human-computer interaction, human--building interaction, industrial manufacturing, and modular assembly. Our research used the triangulation technique to consult with subject matter experts (researchers, practitioners, and professors of related …
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A Macroergonomics Path to Human-centered, Adaptive Buildings
Human-building relationships impact everyone in industrialized society. We spend approximately 90% of our lives in the built environment. Buildings have a large impact on the environment; consuming 20% of worldwide energy (40% of U.S. energy) annually. Buildings are complex systems, yet …
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Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Distributed Ledger Technologies Toward Smart and Autonomous Buildings
… has led to the emergence of smart buildings as a critical domain of innovation. These buildings leverage Internet of Things (IoT) devices, building automation systems, data analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize operations, reduce energy consumption, and enhance …
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Data-driven customer energy behavior characterization for distributed energy management
… the smart meter data from a set of neighbor buildings (equipped with plug meters) with similar energy use behavior for training. Through identifying similar buildings in energy use behavior, the machine learning classification models (including neural network, SVM, and random forest) were …