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_id	caadria2016_839
id	caadria2016_839
authors	Ikeda, Yasushi; Keisuke Toyoda and Tsukasa Takenaka
year	2016
title	The Pedagogical Meanings of an Experimental Full-Size Mock-Up of Computational Design
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2016.839
source	Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2016) / Melbourne 30 March–2 April 2016, pp. 839-848
summary	Skill in the use of digital media tools is growing more im- portant in architectural education. However parametric objects in computational geometry or digital fabrication as an assist for project- based learning are not in themselves sufficient to extract the potential of computational design. When we consider the performance of a de- sign, or the fundamental purpose of parametric design toolsets in the contemporary context, education must act as a connecter to the ambi- tion of global sustainability. With regards to the advantage of compu- tational methodologies, students benefit by developing a holistic vi- sion of non-standardized assembly technology. This is particularly useful in overcoming problems of mass production, and with the crea- tion of interactive technology that is incrementally adaptable in the process of answering to unpredictable change. In this context, a com- prehensive understanding of digital tools as part of a holistic and eco- logical architectural design mindset is crucial for future designers. Exploring effective ways to guide students in the development of this capability is therefore important. This paper documents a recent effort in this direction through examples of education within a digital design studio. As a conclusion the paper discusses important factors in the encouragement of students as they develop a comprehensive under- standing of the use of digital design culture.
keywords	Digital design studio; full-size mock-up; comprehensive capability; practical performance; project-based learning
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_id	ecaade2016_157
id	ecaade2016_157
authors	Kulcke, Matthias and Lorenz, Wolfgang E.
year	2016
title	Utilizing Gradient Analysis within Interactive Genetic Algorithms
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2016.2.359
source	Herneoja, Aulikki; Toni Österlund and Piia Markkanen (eds.), Complexity & Simplicity - Proceedings of the 34th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, 22-26 August 2016, pp. 359-364
summary	The paper describes and discusses the possible integration of gradient analysis, as a method and tool for architects and designers to analyze the degree of proportion-complexity of a design, into the process of designing an object utilizing interactive genetic algorithms (IGA). A VBA implementation for AutoCAD has been developed by the authors, enabling to test the usability of genetic algorithms (GA) for minimizing the angle-redundancy and length-redundancy quotient. The gradient analysis itself has been developed on the basic assumption that the complexity of an objects appearance is reduced by redundancy, which can be measured focussing on different levels of comparison; among others e. g. variety of material, colour-combinations and proportion. The latter comes under scrutiny if the method of gradient analysis is applied.
wos	WOS:000402064400035
keywords	Gradient Analysis; Interactive Genetic Algorithm; Design Complexity; Redundancy; Spatial Analysis; Form and Geometry; Proportion
series	eCAADe
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_id	acadia16_402
id	acadia16_402
authors	Pinochet, Diego
year	2016
title	Antithetical Colloquy: From operation to interaction in digital fabrication
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2016.402
source	ACADIA // 2016: POSTHUMAN FRONTIERS: Data, Designers, and Cognitive Machines [Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-692-77095-5] Ann Arbor 27-29 October, 2016, pp. 402-411
summary	This paper, introduces a cybernetic approach to digital design and fabrication by embracing aspects of embodied interaction, behavior and communication between designers and machines. To do so, it proposes the use of body gestures, digital/tangible interfaces and Artificial Intelligence to create a more reciprocal way of making. The goal is to present a model of designing and making as a ‘conversation’ instead a mere dialog from creator to executor of a predefined plan to represent an idea. In other words, this paper proposes a platform for interaction between two antithetical worlds—one binary/deterministic and the other perceptual/ambiguous—by focusing in the exploratory aspects of design and embracing aspects of improvisation, ambiguity, imprecision and discovery in the development of an idea.
keywords	compuatational making, computational design, interactive fabrication, digital fabrication
series	ACADIA
type	paper
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_id	caadria2016_321
id	caadria2016_321
authors	Wu, Yi-Sin; Teng-Wen Chang, Min-Nan Liao and Sambit Datta
year	2016
title	Reflecting Self: An Interactive Mirror Study
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2016.321
source	Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2016) / Melbourne 30 March–2 April 2016, pp. 321-330
summary	Immersive environment provides a virtual environment immersion experience for the user, and allow users in-depth experi- ence. In this study through research “self- reflecting” and “self- reflecting during interaction with the space environment” by entity makeup table for discussion. Makeup table reflect the role of people and the surrounding environment. We found the style selected by the user, often conform to the user's external style, and does not because of the age limit the user to interact with curiosity. We also found that in addition to the female user, make up table will also trigger young men of curiosity, they will close to observation and interaction with the table. Finally, we have statistical distribution of general user pref- erences. We also in accordance with the user's behavior, revised inter- active processes, make recommendations when designing immersive environments.
keywords	Immersive environment; virtual environments; reflecting self; avatar; virtual make up table
series	CAADRIA
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_id	acadia16_54
id	acadia16_54
authors	Andreen, David; Jenning, Petra; Napp, Nils; Petersen, Kirstin
year	2016
title	Emergent Structures Assembled by Large Swarms of Simple Robots
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2016.054
source	ACADIA // 2016: POSTHUMAN FRONTIERS: Data, Designers, and Cognitive Machines [Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-692-77095-5] Ann Arbor 27-29 October, 2016, pp. 54-61
summary	Traditional architecture relies on construction processes that require careful planning and strictly defined outcomes at every stage; yet in nature, millions of relatively simple social insects collectively build large complex nests without any global coordination or blueprint. Here, we present a testbed designed to explore how emergent structures can be assembled using swarms of active robots manipulating passive building blocks in two dimensions. The robot swarm is based on the toy “bristlebot”; a simple vibrating motor mounted on top of bristles to propel the body forward. Since shape largely determines the details of physical interactions, the robot behavior is altered by carefully designing its geometry instead of uploading a digital program. Through this mechanical programming, we plan to investigate how to tune emergent structural properties such as the size and temporal stability of assemblies. Alongside a physical testbed with 200 robots, this work involves comprehensive simulation and analysis tools. This simple, reliable platform will help provide better insight on how to coordinate large swarms of robots to construct functional structures.
keywords	emergent structures, mechanical intelligence, swarm robotics
series	ACADIA
type	paper
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_id	ecaade2016_150
id	ecaade2016_150
authors	Barczik, Günter and Kruse, Rolf
year	2016
title	Shifting Design Work from Production to Evaluation - An Evolutive Design Tool
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2016.2.109
source	Herneoja, Aulikki; Toni Österlund and Piia Markkanen (eds.), Complexity & Simplicity - Proceedings of the 34th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, 22-26 August 2016, pp. 109-115
summary	We are developing an evolutive design tool that seeks to facilitate a shift in the focus of the process of designing architecture: away from the production of design alternatives or options towards an evaluation of semi-automatically generated ones. We work towards outsourcing the production of design alternatives in a given design task to a CAD tool and thereby give human designers more time to evaluate and discuss those alternatives and guide the tool in the production of improved alternatives. The format of our work is an experimental student design and research project where architects and computer scientists collaborate. Though the project is in a very early stage, our aim is to ultimately shift the focus of human designers' involvement from production of design options to the evaluation of those, in order to give humans more time to think, discuss, find, analyze and include many different points of view and make it easier for them to be impartial in finding optimal solutions. We developed a design tool that uses interactive evolutionary algorithms to support exploration of design options.
wos	WOS:000402064400010
keywords	Genetic Algorithm; Evolutive Design Strategy; Interactive evolutionary computation
series	eCAADe
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_id	caadria2016_457
id	caadria2016_457
authors	Chen, Szu-Yin; Kokfu Lok and Taysheng Jeng
year	2016
title	Smart BIM Objects for Design Intelligence
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2016.457
source	Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2016) / Melbourne 30 March–2 April 2016, pp. 457-466
summary	By enabling BIM technology, a building can be represented by a set of objects that carry detailed information about how they are constructed and also capture the relationship with other objects in the building model. Smart BIM objects can be classified as specific com- ponents encapsulating typical building rules and relations that can be predicted and defined by a few parameters and constraints. A frame- work is developed to show how a smart BIM object is developed. This paper presents the method of developing smart BIM object capable of better-informing design decision. To demonstrate the usefulness of smart BIM objects, a cloud BIM object library is developed and tested by academia and industry.
keywords	Smart BIM object; cloud database; parametric modelling
series	CAADRIA
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_id	caadria2016_301
id	caadria2016_301
authors	Datta, S.; T. W. Chang and J. Hollick
year	2016
title	Curating architectural collections: Interaction with immersive stereoscopic visualisation
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2016.301
source	Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2016) / Melbourne 30 March–2 April 2016, pp. 301-310
summary	We present our research on the use of immersive stereo- scopic visualisation in interaction with collections of architectural rep- resentations. We investigate the processing and visualisation of multi- ple model representations from architectural datasets. We develop two models for locating collections of datasets in spatial contexts, namely a realistic gallery and a synthetic landscape. We evaluate and report the qualitative interactive experience with two forms of contextual in- teraction within a novel stereoscopic immersive visualisation (cylin- drical projection) environment. The use of immersive stereoscopic visualisation conveys aspects and dimensions of the collections that would not be possible without the forms of contextual interaction, the gallery metaphor and the synthetic landscape to interact with the ar- chitectural collections. The combination of abstract representations with realistic sense of scale and interaction provide the user with an immersive experience to convey the collective form.
keywords	Digital data acquisition; architectural reconstruction; geometry processing and algorithms; immersive stereoscopic visualisation; human computer interaction
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ecaade2016_164
id	ecaade2016_164
authors	Dobiesz, Sebastian and Grajper, Anna
year	2016
title	Animating the Static. Case Study of The Project "Urbanimals" - Enhancing play in the cities through an augmented and interactive environment
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2016.1.691
source	Herneoja, Aulikki; Toni Österlund and Piia Markkanen (eds.), Complexity & Simplicity - Proceedings of the 34th eCAADe Conference - Volume 1, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, 22-26 August 2016, pp. 691-700
summary	This article delineates the process of developing the project "Urbanimals" - an interactive installation designed and realised in Bristol, UK, in 2015. As the case study research, it draws attention to the difficulties in designing interactive structures in urban spaces - from an architects' idea to a construction stage. There are four areas that are being investigated: (1) Modelling interactions, (2) Negotiating locations and logistics, (3) Developing hardware and (4) Performing the on-site observations. The project draws from the idea of Smart City (SC) as the concept of the urban environment with a certain level of responsiveness through implementing a technology-driven matter that expands city offer perceivable, but gentle and not hindering way. It highlights the possible applications of projection technology and the utilisation of the 3D modelling software which provides complex tools for creating animations, movements and interactions with future users. The article gives clues how to design more engaging interactions and how to deal with implementing them in public realm.
wos	WOS:000402063700074
keywords	Smart Cities; Interactive Architecture; public realm; art installations
series	eCAADe
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_id	caadria2016_693
id	caadria2016_693
authors	Fernando, Ruwan; Karine Dupre and Henry Skates
year	2016
title	Tangible User Interfaces for Teaching Building Physics: Towards continuous designing in education
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2016.693
source	Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2016) / Melbourne 30 March–2 April 2016, pp. 693-702
summary	This paper follows our evaluation and research into designing tangible physical media for the purposes of teaching building physics to undergraduate architecture students. These media interfaces make use of a virtual environment to promote an understanding of the cycles, which govern architectural and urban projects (for example solar studies, the flow of heat, air and water). This project aims to create an ecology of devices which can be used by students to self-direct themselves and harbour critical making in their research methods (with the explicit intent of dissolving the barrier between design and research). The basic premise of this research, is that in light of growing student numbers, more students lacking confidence in numeracy skills as well as the desire to have self-directed or group-directed learning, tangible media has a promising role to play. There are several reasons for this optimism. The first is that a better sense of intuition is gained from an interactive model over reading notes from a lecture or textbook. The second is that tangible media engages in other modes of learning, being valuable to students who have an aptitude for kinesthetic and spatial learning over text-dominant learning.
keywords	Pedagogy; tangible user interfaces; augmented reality; internet of things; designing for teaching
series	CAADRIA
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_id	caadria2016_373
id	caadria2016_373
authors	Heinrich, Mary Katherine and Phil Ayres
year	2016
title	For Time-Continuous Optimisation: Replacing Automation with Interactive Visualisation in Multi-Objective Behavioural Design
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2016.373
source	Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2016) / Melbourne 30 March–2 April 2016, pp. 373-382
summary	Strategies for optimisation in design normatively assume an artefact end-point, disallowing continuous architecture that engages living systems, dynamic behaviour, and complex systems. In our Flora Robotica investigations of symbiotic plant-robot bio-hybrids, we re- quire computational tools and strategies that help us evaluate designed behaviours, rather than discrete ‘things’. In this paper, we present our strategy of using embodied interaction to facilitate engagement with a scenario’s full scope of possible states and their continuous changes over time. We detail the ways in which this approach to time- continuous optimisation can be broadly impactful for decision- making, especially in architectural systems that aspire to effective dealings with control flows and lifecycle management.
keywords	Multi-objective; dynamic; visualisation; interaction; optimisation
series	CAADRIA
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_id	caadria2016_291
id	caadria2016_291
authors	Hotta, K. and A. Hotta
year	2016
title	The Implementation of Programmable Architecture: Wireless Interaction with Dynamic Structure
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2016.291
source	Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2016) / Melbourne 30 March–2 April 2016, pp. 291-299
summary	True adaptability in architecture necessitates both dynamic hardware and software with the potential for continually renewable forms capable of all possible variations necessary for changing de- mands and conditions, without having to resort to one theoretically optimal solution. PA consists of both autonomous and subservient systems that maintain a constant homeostasis within its contained en- vironment. The information flow between the Genetic Algorithms (GA) and user input prompts this hybrid system to generate the conse- quent, ever-changing physical form, while continuously optimizing it for environmental stimuli. This paper proposes a smart strategy for a human interactive-cybernetic architecture in the context of K. Hotta’s Programmable Architecture (PA), aimed at enhancing GA’s capabili- ties in continuous self-modelling and facilitating human-computer in- terface.
keywords	Human-computer interaction; user interface
series	CAADRIA
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_id	caadria2016_239
id	caadria2016_239
authors	Prohasky, Daniel J.; Rafael Moya Castro, Simon Watkins and Jane Burry
year	2016
title	Design Driven Physical Experimentation: A flexible wind sensing platform for architects
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2016.239
source	Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2016) / Melbourne 30 March–2 April 2016, pp. 239-248
summary	Architectural design in this ‘digital age’ is becoming more embedded within virtual computer aided design environments. This study expands this virtual design environment back into physical realms through the use of microelectronic wind sensing technology. An interactive and flexible wind sensing system (open source minia- ture portable wind tunnel and wind sensors) was evaluated for its abil- ity to simulate and measure the effects of wind. Physical models of four high-rise buildings were constructed to evaluate ground level pe- destrian comfort resulting from the degree of torsional twist in the building form. The model investigation formed a case study for evalu- ating of the low-cost miniature portable wind tunnel and microelec- tronic wind sensing system for comparison with an industrial aeronau- tical wind tunnel and high precision wind sensors.
keywords	Architectural wind tunnel; microelectronic wind sensing; twisted building; wind visualisation
series	CAADRIA
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_id	acadia16_244
id	acadia16_244
authors	Ramirez-Figueroa, Carolina; Hernan, Luis; Guyet, Aurelie; Dade-Robertson, Martyn
year	2016
title	Bacterial Hygromorphs: Experiments into the Integration of Soft Technologies into Building Skins
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2016.244
source	ACADIA // 2016: POSTHUMAN FRONTIERS: Data, Designers, and Cognitive Machines [Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-692-77095-5] Ann Arbor 27-29 October, 2016, pp. 244-253
summary	The last few years have seen an increase in the interest to bring living systems into the process of design. Work with living systems, nonetheless, presents several challenges. Aspects such as access to specialists’ labs, samples of living systems, and knowledge to conduct experiments in controlled settings become barriers which prevent designers from developing a direct, material engagement with the material. In this paper, we propose a design methodology which combines development of experiments in laboratory settings with the use of what we call material proxies, which refer to materials that operate in analogue to some of the behaviors observed in the target organism. We will propose that combining material proxies with basic scientific experimentation constitutes a form of direct material engagement, which encourages richer exploration of the design domain. We will develop this argument by reporting on our experience in designing and delivering the primer component of a themed design studio, structured around bacterial spores as hygroscopic components of building facades. The six-week design project asked students to consider the behavior of bacterial spores, and to imagine a number of systems in which they could be employed as actuators of a membrane system that responded to fluctuations in humidity. The module is interesting in that it negotiates some of the challenges often faced by designers who want to develop a material engagement with living systems, and to produce informed speculations about their potential in architectural design.
keywords	actuators, architecture, building skins, artifical muscles, hygromorphs, bacterial spores
series	ACADIA
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_id	caadria2016_497
id	caadria2016_497
authors	Ryu, Jungrim; Jaehong Jun, Seunghyeon Lee and Seungyeon Choo
year	2016
title	A Study on Development of the IFC-based Indoor Spatial Information for Data Visualisation
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2016.497
source	Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2016) / Melbourne 30 March–2 April 2016, pp. 497-506
summary	MOLIT authorised Indoor Spatial Information as Basic spa- tial information in 2013. It became a legal evidence for constructing and managing Indoor Spatial Information. Although it has a little ad- vantage to utilise as service level that Indoor Spatial Information by laser scan or measurement, it has a lot of problems such as consuming many resources, requiring additional progresses for inputting Object Information. In conclusion, it is inefficient to utilise for the mainte- nance and domestic AEC/FM field. The purposes of this study is to output Indoor Spatial Information by operating IFC model which based on open BIM and to improve availability of Indoor Spatial In- formation with data visualisation. The open-sources of IFC Exporter, an inner program of Revit, is used to output Indoor Spatial Infor- mation. Directs 3D Library is also operated to visualise Indoor Spatial Information. It is possible to inter-operate between XML format and the objects of Indoor Spatial Information. It can be utilised in various field as well. For example COBie linkage in facility management, construction of geo-database using air-photogrammetry of UA V , the simulation of large-scale military operations and the simulation of large-scale evacuation. The method that is purposed in this study has outstanding advantages such as conformance with national spatial in- formation policy, high level of interoperability as indoor spatial in- formation objects based on IFC, convenience of editing information, light level of data and simplifying progress of producing information.
keywords	Indoor spatial information, data visualisation, open BIM, IFC
series	CAADRIA
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_id	caadria2016_713
id	caadria2016_713
authors	Sato, Yusuke; Tomohiro Fukuda, Nobuyoshi Yabuki, Takashi Michikawa and Ali Motamedi
year	2016
title	A Marker-less Augmented Reality System using Image Processing Techniques for Architecture and Urban Environment
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2016.713
source	Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2016) / Melbourne 30 March–2 April 2016, pp. 713-722
summary	In this study, Augmented Reality (AR) system is proposed to be used for outdoor renovation and maintenance projects of build- ings. The research proposes an outdoor marker-less AR system that considers the mobility of users and their long relative distance to tar- get buildings where 3D virtual objects should be augmented on. The proposed system uses local feature-based image registration technolo- gy and Structure from Motion (SfM) which reconstructs 3DCG mod- els using photographs from multiple viewpoints. A case study has been performed for a research building renovation scenario at Osaka University. The case study verified the performance of image registra- tion and tracking, and confirmed the applicability of the method.
keywords	Architecture and urban environment; Augmented Reality (AR); image registration; Speeded-up Robust Features (SURF); Structure from Motion (SfM)
series	CAADRIA
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_id	caadria2016_333
id	caadria2016_333
authors	Schubert, Gerhard; Benjamin Strobel and Frank Petzold
year	2016
title	Tangible Mixed Realty: Interactive Augmented Visualisation of Digital Simulation in Physical Working Models
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2016.333
source	Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2016) / Melbourne 30 March–2 April 2016, pp. 333-342
summary	The implications of architectural design decisions are in many cases hard to predict and envisage. As architectural tasks grow more complex and the design of architecture shifts away from the de- sign of end products towards the steering of dynamic processes, new ways of coping with complexity in the design and planning process are needed. Taking this as its starting point, as well as the need for ar- chitects to use familiar, established design tools, the CDP research group is working on new ways of supporting the design decision- making process with objective information so that designers are better able to manage these complexities. The focus of the group lies on di- rectly coupling interactive simulations and analyses with established design tools. This paper discusses a central problem in this context: how to present complex calculation results directly within a physical 3D-model. The approach described, as evidenced by the realized pro- totype, shows clearly that directly coupling real and digital infor- mation using interactive augmented visualization presents immense possibilities for managing the complexity of planning processes.
keywords	Design support, simulations, computational design, urban planning, augmented reality
series	CAADRIA
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_id	acadia16_414
id	acadia16_414
authors	Tabbarah, Faysal
year	2016
title	Almost Natural Shelter: Non-Linear Material Misbehavior
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2016.414
source	ACADIA // 2016: POSTHUMAN FRONTIERS: Data, Designers, and Cognitive Machines [Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-692-77095-5] Ann Arbor 27-29 October, 2016, pp. 414-423
summary	This paper critiques computational design and digital fabrication’s obsession with both precision and images of natural patterns by describing a messy attitude towards digital and material computation that integrates and blurs between linear and non-linear fabrication, resulting in material formations and spatial affects that are beyond pattern and image and are almost natural. The motivation behind the body of work presented in the paper is to question the production of space and aesthetics in a post-human frontier as we embark on a new geological era that is emerging out of the unprecedented influence of the human race on the planet’s ecological systems. The paper and the body of work posit that the blurring between the natural and the synthetic in the post-human frontier can materialize a conception of space that exhibits qualities that are both natural and synthetic. The paper is organized in three parts. It begins by describing the theoretical framework that drives the body of work. Next, it describes early digital and material casting explorations that began to blur between linear and non-linear fabrication to produce almost natural objects. Finally, it describes the process of designing and making Almost Natural Shelter, a spatial installation that emerges from the integration of messy computational design methodologies and chemically volatile non-linear fabrication. In specific, High Density Foam is persuaded to chemically self-compute in an attempt at uncovering a shelter that has almost natural spatial qualities, such as non-linear textural differentiation and sudden migration between different texture types.
keywords	natural, texture, nonlinear fabrication, sensate systems
series	ACADIA
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_id	caadria2016_311
id	caadria2016_311
authors	Wu, Ming-Ying; Kuan-Lin Chen and Yu-Chun Huang
year	2016
title	A smart bracelet: An alternative interfaces between performer and audience
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2016.311
source	Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2016) / Melbourne 30 March–2 April 2016, pp. 311-319
summary	Performing arts has been one of the main recreational activ- ities in people’s life. However, most performing arts, performers usu- ally used one direction to express performing contents to the audienc- es. It means there is no real-time communication channel between the performers and audience in most performance. Hence the challenge of this research is how to provide a better relationship between the per- formers and audience without disturbing the show? This research we implemented a bio-sensor embedded smart bracelet which is able to transmit the feelings from user’s to stage by monitoring biological signal (ex: Galvanic skin response) immediately. When most audienc- es have the same physiological reaction to a certain level, the stage scene would be changed the colour and pattern to let performers know how the audiences’ feeling now. Performers would enhance self- confidence and then incorporate the audiences’ feedback to create their future performance. By applying this interactive interface to per- forming arts, we explored a new vision of performance that can not only enhance the diversity of performance but also provide a comfort- able communication channel between performers and audiences, and improve the confidence of the performers.
keywords	Performing arts; computational technology; interactive interface
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ijac201614307
id	ijac201614307
authors	Wu, Yi-Sin; Teng-Wen Chang, and Sambit Datta
year	2016
title	HiGame: Improving elderly well-being through horticultural interaction
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 14 - no. 3, 263-276
summary	Family support is the key to the well-being problems of elderly. Unlike health problem, mental problem often depends on the social network of elderly. How to enhance elderly well-being problems will become how to increase the interaction between elderly and their family. Horticultural interaction proves to be an effective but smooth impact on improving well-being problems of elderly. By designing a horticultural interaction game for motivating or invoking the communication between elderly and their family members, the prototype is developed based on the framework of behavior setting and semi-fixed features. Three groups of games, physical games, virtual games, and spatial interaction games, are analyzed and 14 cases are studied and evaluated for the features required. Particularly, spatial interaction games with both physical and virtual games are brought into scope, and HiGame (Horticultural Interaction Game, hi game) is developed. Five scenarios using sensor network and mobile interface are unleashed and tested in an experiment with two sets of elderly family participants. HiGame has connection to both physical and virtual spaces for elderly and their family. Elderly interact with distant family through physical watering, weeding, and fertilizing. And distant family use virtual game to support elderly. The interaction process can be further enhanced with the following: (1) separating the tasks for elderly and family ends individually and then cooperating together might enforce the intergenerational interaction and reflection on cooperation in the gaming process; (2) the connection among each scenario can be further developed into a different process, such as competition of different members for helping the elderly to complete certain task might motivate the game experience further.
keywords	Elderly, co-existing space, intergeneration interaction, behavior setting
series	journal
last changed	2016/10/05 08:21

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