Intelligent spaces: Effects of pervasive environments on the role of interior designer

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
İnanç Işıl Yildirim
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Time Integration ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Sensors And Actuators ◽  
Interior Space ◽  
Pervasive Environments ◽  
Digital World

Intelligent spaces are rooms or areas that are embedded with sensors and actuators which enable the spaces to perceive and understand what is happening in them. Through an increasing number of computers and wireless communication technologies networked them, these spaces have the ability of receiving the parameters of physical world which users exist in their relevant context, analysing and processing the data with the interfaces between the physical and digital world, and react or change their mode and augment the human functionality, on time. Integration of computer and physical space results a space which have the computer's thinking ability. Due to the space having intelligence, sensors and the capability to communicate, definitions are not the same as in usual space. Pervasive computing is transforming interior spaces by allowing utilities, goods and information to appear dynamically where and when they are needed. Also, we are face with the space that can understand what is happening inside and outside it and which is not passive to the changing environmental situations. Intelligent interiors can become immersive sensory environments that combine the advantages of automation and modern technology with sensory feedback and materiality. The advances in hardware, system design, and software made enable to achieve this vision. In this world, physical objects and spaces are linked to the digital world and information about the physical world can be used to support human functionality and experience. In this paper, the vision of intelligent space will be explained and the innovations that helped to realize these spaces will be introduced. The social and psychological impacts of the future technologies while designing interior space will be discussed. The changing way we work and live and interfering boundaries of the space titles were asked by the way of a short questionnaire to the Interior Design Students who have the seminar about Intelligent and Interactive Spaces this semester, so their knowledge about these spaces and computer technologies are enough to comment the questions. This will give us the idea of future’s interior designers’ new role in these environments. These finding will give us a supporting knowledge about intelligent or thinking spaces and their impacts on the roles of interior designers.Keywords: Intelligent spaces, pervasive environments, interior design education, future vision.

scholarly journals Modern technologies as a way to solve innovative problems in interior design

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 100-108
Author(s):  
S.A. Zhuk ◽  
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N. Volkova ◽  
M. Lutsyk ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Creative Imagination ◽  
Interior Space ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Lighting Technology ◽  
Lighting Systems ◽  
Modern Technologies

The article examines modern technologies that contribute to the implementation of creative design ideas, based on the analysis of modern lighting technology and energy saving factors. It is hypothesized that the goal of modern design in this article is defined as the creation of new space and values, through the renewal of the human environment. The basis for confirming this hypothesis should be the justification for the use of lighting technology and electronicsin solving conceptual and artistic design problems. The scientific research is based on the methodology for making design decisions and ways to open new ways for the implementation of creative imagination and new conceptual solutions of the designer, on the example of designing the interior of a cafe. The author considers and substantiates such terms as intelligent space, interior as a process, integrated lighting systems, informatization of interior space, new methods of decoration, etc. Examples of analysis of design situations from are given the point of view of functional tasks, classification of requirements when making design decisions is substantiated. Lighting technologies in the interior are viewed as a tool that solves a whole range of tasks that combine aesthetic and technological principles of interior shaping. Modern technology is seen as a designer's tool that should be used to understand the role of design as a conduit of scientific advances and innovative technologies to the consumer environment.

scholarly journals Out of “touch”? − An experiential pedagogical approach to daylighting in architecture and interior design education

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 02010
Author(s):  
Gillian Treacy
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Dynamic Range ◽  
Computer Modelling ◽  
Physical Models ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Numerical Verification ◽  
Interior Space ◽  
Calculation Software

A new challenge is emerging. Contemporary built environment pedagogy demands engagement with both analogue and digital tools for simulation and verification of lit architectural environments. The use of analogue tools within architectural design education grasps onto the historically valued craftsmanship of drawing and physical models to measure, represent and understand our lit environment ambiance. Digital tools can provide efficient, simultaneous and precise verification of lit architectural interior space through 3D computer modelling and calculation software. However, the understanding and representation of daylit scenarios is becoming more numerically complex as lighting metrics and software gain in accuracy and dynamic range. With the majority of easily accessible software tools focussing on numerical verification, the ephemeral ambience that daylight in particular creates in interior architectural spaces is becoming ever more difficult to grasp for the architectural design student and practitioner. This paper seeks to challenge the exclusive use of digital tools for the understanding and representation of lit interiors by proposing that this methodology cultivates design epistemologies that are out of “touch”. Questionnaire findings and workshop studies are presented as pedagogical constructs are proposed inviting physical, experiential learning of lighting principles in collaboration with numerical and digital modes of learning to provide connections and translations to develop through ‘touch’ing light.

Mechatronics at Rensselaer: Integration Through Design

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Craig
Keyword(s):  
Design Education ◽  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Model Building ◽  
Controller Design ◽  
Computer Control ◽  
Sensors And Actuators ◽  
Final Project ◽  
Mechatronic Design ◽  
Design Engineers ◽  
Stepper Motors

Abstract Mechatronics is the synergistic combination of precision mechanical engineering, electronics, control engineering, and computer science in the design process. This paper describes a new elective course entitled Mechatronics which has been developed and was taught for the first time at Rensselaer during the fall 1991 semester to 45 senior-undergraduate and graduate students. The key areas of mechatronics which are studied in depth in this course are: control sensors and actuators, interfacing sensors and actuators to a microcomputer, discrete controller design, and real-time programming for control using the C programming language. The course is heavily laboratory-based with a two-hour laboratory weekly in addition to three hours of classroom lecture. The laboratory exercises include computer-aided control system design using MATRIXx, various analog and digital sensors, hydraulic actuators, DC and stepper motors, and computer control of a variety of physical systems. The unifying theme for the course is the integration of these key areas into a successful mechatronic design. Students are required, as a final project, to: identify a problem or need, analyze the problem, and write a problem statement; perform a state-of-the-art review; develop a list of specifications and identify the key specifications; generate an outstanding mechatronic-system conceptual design; and finally perform a detailed design of the system which may include model building and hardware development. Examples of student projects are described. This course should significantly enhance our design education program in the Mechanical Engineering Department and lay the foundation for the students to become mechatronic design engineers.

scholarly journals Spontaneous emergence of leadership patterns drives synchronization in complex human networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmela Calabrese ◽  
Maria Lombardi ◽  
Erik Bollt ◽  
Pietro De Lellis ◽  
Benoît G. Bardy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Motor Coordination ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Motor Task ◽  
Arm Movement ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Physical Interaction ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Spatial Configurations ◽  
Human Networks ◽  
Synchronization Performance

AbstractSynchronization of human networks is fundamental in many aspects of human endeavour. Recently, much research effort has been spent on analyzing how motor coordination emerges in human groups (from rocking chairs to violin players) and how it is affected by coupling structure and strength. Here we uncover the spontaneous emergence of leadership (based on physical signaling during group interaction) as a crucial factor steering the occurrence of synchronization in complex human networks where individuals perform a joint motor task. In two experiments engaging participants in an arm movement synchronization task, in the physical world as well as in the digital world, we found that specific patterns of leadership emerged and increased synchronization performance. Precisely, three patterns were found, involving a subtle interaction between phase of the motion and amount of influence. Such patterns were independent of the presence or absence of physical interaction, and persisted across manipulated spatial configurations. Our results shed light on the mechanisms that drive coordination and leadership in human groups, and are consequential for the design of interactions with artificial agents, avatars or robots, where social roles can be determinant for a successful interaction.

scholarly journals Effectiveness of Physical Academic Libraries in a Digitally-Evolved World

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doris Emetarom Aduba ◽  
Victoria O. Odegwo ◽  
Obiora Kingsley Udem
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Services Delivery ◽  
Global Space ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Desk Research

This paper aims at establishing the effectiveness of physical academic libraries in a digitally-evolved world. It tends to explore the priorities of academic libraries in line with the changing global environment. Data was gathered through desk research and content analysis approach. Data generated from analysis of literature were augmented by brainstorming and interaction with professional colleagues from different academic libraries within the south-east geo-political zone of Nigeria. The paper described the physical library and nature of academic libraries with reference to the digital world, explain the attributes of the digitally-evolved world and need for transforming physical academic libraries in line with changing global space, highlight the constraints to the effectiveness of academic libraries in a digital world, discuss the keys to effective services delivery in physical academic libraries as it relates to the digital world and outline the prospects for the physical academic libraries in a digital world. The implications for librarians in the digital world were described. The paper concludes that most libraries are still at the analogue stage and that despite the overwhelming influence of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on the services provided by libraries, the physical space of the academics libraries is still relevant.

Healthy Workspaces: Strategies for Increasing the Indoor Environmental Quality at Call Centre Interiors for Employee Wellbeing and Productivity

BUILDER ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 284 (3) ◽  
pp. 60-63
Author(s):  
Salih Ceylan
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Call Center ◽  
Call Centre ◽  
Indoor Environmental Quality ◽  
Interior Space ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Interior Spaces ◽  
Certification And Accreditation ◽  
Cultural Functions

Indoor environmental quality is a requirement for good architectural and interior design. The definition of indoor environmental quality refers to the conditions of the interior space that provide health and wellbeing for its occupants. Elements of indoor environmental quality are thermal comfort, indoor air quality, ventilation, ergonomics, natural and artificial lighting, odor, and acoustic quality. Indoor environmental quality is required in every type of interior space including ones with residential, educational, and cultural functions and workspaces. It is also included as one of the factors of energy efficient and sustainable design in building energy certification and accreditation systems. This study focuses on call center interiors as a type of workspaces, where the employees spend a long time in the interior space communicating with customers on the phone. The aim is to provide theoretical information and practical application suggestions for higher quality design in call center interiors. The methodology of this paper consists firstly of a literature review to study and analyze the definition and elements of indoor environmental quality, and its implementation into call center interiors as workspaces. Analytical studies lead to strategy proposals for better designed call center interior spaces. The results of the study indicate that better designed interior spaces in call centers lead to better health and wellbeing of the employees, resulting with higher performance and service quality.

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