Understanding Human-Building Interactions for Intelligent Built Environments
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2016) | Viewed by 6720
Special Issue Editor
Interests: user centered environments; situational awareness in built environments; behavior-driven models; adaptive and responsive built environments; energy efficiency; building performance
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This call invites research projects that focus on approaches that transform built environments into attentive and self-learning entities by understanding human-building interactions and their implications, and adapting to user needs/preferences to conserve energy, provide safety and security, and increase comfort and productivity. Some of the examples are interactions between design and users in an airport (for example, path-finding by different users such as visitors, passengers, etc.), impacting flow and convenience, or adjusting thermostats for personal preferences, affecting comfort and energy consumption, or the use of classrooms and technology by educators and students, influencing learning in educational buildings. The envisioned environments learn from their users (behavior, activities, preferences), connect with them (through existing and new interactions), and adapt to their needs through human-building collaboration.
The call invites researchers in multiple domains, including architecture, engineering, behavioral science, pervasive computing, and artificial intelligence. The call encompasses any human-centered environment (e.g., healthcare buildings, schools, homes, office buildings), —tailored to the needs of building users (e.g., regular occupants of office buildings, short term users, such as students in an educational building and/or transitional users, such as passengers in an airport), to support engineering and infrastructure management objectives (e.g., energy efficiency, safety and security, in-building emergency response).
Prof. Dr. Burcin Becerik-Gerber
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- human-building interaction
- intelligent buildings
- occupant behavior
- user centered environments
- building performance
