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Introduction to Human-Building Interaction (HBI): Interfacing HCI with Architecture and Urban Design
- Hamed S. Alavi,
- Elizabeth F. Churchill,
- Mikael Wiberg,
- Denis Lalanne,
- Peter Dalsgaard,
- Ava Fatah gen Schieck,
- Yvonne Rogers
Buildings and urban spaces increasingly incorporate artificial intelligence and new forms of interactivity, raising a wide span of research questions about the future of human experiences with, and within, built environments. We call this emerging area ...
Do Architects and Designers Think about Interactivity Differently?
This essay has three parts. In Part 1, I review six biases that frame the way architects and human–computer interaction (HCI) practitioners think about their design problems. These arise from differences between working on procedurally complex tasks in ...
Temporal Constraints in Human--Building Interaction
Human--building interaction (HBI) is converging the fields of architecture and interaction design, leading to new and interesting tensions in perspectives and methodological approaches. One such tension is related to temporal constraints. Architecture ...
Designing to Distract: Can Interactive Technologies Reduce Visitor Anxiety in a Children's Hospital Setting?
Many public buildings are entered through reception areas, intended for visitors to sit and wait in to be met. A concern is how to make visitors feel welcome while in transit. Hospitals, medical centres and other healthcare organisations are a special ...
Exploring and Understanding the Role of Workshop Environments in Personal Fabrication Processes
Growing interest in personal fabrication has resulted in many ways to ideate, design, and prototype, in addition to studies of who a maker is and the challenges they face. Less attention, however, has focused on the role of the environment in ...
WindowWall: Towards Adaptive Buildings with Interactive Windows as Ubiquitous Displays
As architects usually decide on the shape and look of windows during the design of buildings, opportunities for interactive windows have not been systematically explored yet. In this work, we extend the vision of sustainable and comfortable adaptive ...
Adaptive Architecture and Personal Data
Through sensors carried by people and sensors embedded in the environment, personal data is being processed to try to understand activity patterns and people's internal states in the context of human-building interaction. This data is used to actuate ...