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_id	sigradi2018_1268
id	sigradi2018_1268
authors	Louise Jenney, Sarah; Mühlhaus, Michael; Petzold, Frank
year	2018
title	Connect, Motivate, Communicate: A Foundation for Gamification in Planning Communication
source	SIGraDi 2018 [Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - ISSN: 2318-6968] Brazil, São Carlos 7 - 9 November 2018, pp. 1105-1111
summary	Planning in the urban context is always a complex task in which the diverse interests of different stakeholders have to be weighed up against each other. For this to happen, communication is the key leading to successful and sustainable solutions. Often objective factors like the number and diversity of participating stakeholders is the benchmark for successful planning processes. We examine the motivational factors of the different main stakeholder groups and give an insight in the complex system of motivational and hindering factors that need to be considered when designing engaging sensible and sustainable exchange of knowledge and interests.
keywords	Motivation; Gamification; Communication; Participation; Collaboration
series	SIGRADI
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_id	caadria2018_125
id	caadria2018_125
authors	Bungbrakearti, Narissa, Cooper-Wooley, Ben, Odolphi, Jorke, Doherty, Ben, Fabbri, Alessandra, Gardner, Nicole and Haeusler, M. Hank
year	2018
title	HOLOSYNC - A Comparative Study on Mixed Reality and Contemporary Communication Methods in a Building Design Context
source	T. Fukuda, W. Huang, P. Janssen, K. Crolla, S. Alhadidi (eds.), Learning, Adapting and Prototyping - Proceedings of the 23rd CAADRIA Conference - Volume 1, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 17-19 May 2018, pp. 401-410
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2018.1.401
summary	The integration of technology into the design process has enabled us to communicate through various modes of virtuality, while more traditional face-to-face collaborations are becoming less frequent, specifically for large scale companies. Both modes of communication have benefits and disadvantages - virtual communication enables us to connect over large distances, however can often lead to miscommunication, while face-to-face communication builds stronger relationship, however may be problematic for geographically dispersed teams. Mixed Reality is argued to be a hybrid of face-to-face and virtual communication, and is yet to be integrated into the building design process. Despite its current limitations, such as field of view, Mixed Reality is an effective tool that generates high levels of nonverbal and verbal communication, and encourages a high and equal level of participation in comparison to virtual and face-to-face communication. Being a powerful communication tool for complex visualisations, it would be best implemented in the later stages of the building design process where teams can present designs to clients or where multiple designers can collaborate over final details.
keywords	Mixed Reality; Communication; Hololens; Collaboration; Virtual
series	CAADRIA
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_id	caadria2018_162
id	caadria2018_162
authors	Hawton, Dominic, Cooper-Wooley, Ben, Odolphi, Jorke, Doherty, Ben, Fabbri, Alessandra, Gardner, Nicole and Haeusler, M. Hank
year	2018
title	Shared Immersive Environments for Parametric Model Manipulation - Evaluating a Workflow for Parametric Model Manipulation from Within Immersive Virtual Environments
source	T. Fukuda, W. Huang, P. Janssen, K. Crolla, S. Alhadidi (eds.), Learning, Adapting and Prototyping - Proceedings of the 23rd CAADRIA Conference - Volume 1, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 17-19 May 2018, pp. 483-492
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2018.1.483
summary	Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) provide designers with new visual mediums through which to communicate their designs. There is great potential for these mediums to positively augment current visual communication methods by improving remote collaboration. Enabling designers to interact with familiar computational tools through external virtual interfaces would allow them to both calibrate design parameters and visualise parametric outcomes from within the same immersive virtual environment. The current research outlines a workflow for parametric manipulation and mesh replication between immersive applications developed in the Unity game engine and McNeel's Grasshopper plugin. This paper serves as a foundation for future research into integrating design tools with external VR and AR applications in an effort of enhancing remote collaborative designs.
keywords	Augmented Reality; Virtual Reality; Parametric Design; Procedural; Grasshopper
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ecaade2018_375
id	ecaade2018_375
authors	Pienaru, Meram-Irina
year	2018
title	The City as a Playground - Game tools for interactive planning
source	Kepczynska-Walczak, A, Bialkowski, S (eds.), Computing for a better tomorrow - Proceedings of the 36th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland, 19-21 September 2018, pp. 679-686
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2018.2.679
summary	The emergence of a data space (Big Data and IoT) and, with it, the proliferation of communication means, led many scholars to describe the city through a series of concepts like the informational city, the intelligent city or the cybercity, all of them being characterized by a strong networked consciousness (Castells, Graham, Boyer). The hypothesis of this paper is that game methodology is now gaining momentum and can act as enabler of smarter communities by an increasing access to data infrastructures. This is why the city can be seen as a series of connected playgrounds where interactive tools can support citizen engagement and decision making processes. It does so by going through relevant theoretical background on gamification in the urban context and best practices, to finally describe two student projects developed at CHORA Conscious City, TU Berlin. The two projects are experimental and explore the capabilities of interactive tools in order to support planning processes.
keywords	Gamification; Interactive tools; Networked consciousness; Intelligent communities
series	eCAADe
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_id	ecaade2018_190
id	ecaade2018_190
authors	Gless, Henri-Jean, Halin, Gilles and Hanser, Damien
year	2018
title	Need of a BIM-agile Coach to Oversee Architectural Design - From one pedagogical experiment to another
source	Kepczynska-Walczak, A, Bialkowski, S (eds.), Computing for a better tomorrow - Proceedings of the 36th eCAADe Conference - Volume 1, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland, 19-21 September 2018, pp. 445-450
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2018.1.445
summary	This paper is part of our research on the digital transition in architecture, and more particularly on the integration of BIM (Building Information Management) technology. Indeed, in the field of AEC in France, this transition is still ongoing and remains difficult for architects. BIM technology changes the way people work and communicate, and remains only a tool without a method behind it. His arrival then raises technical but also human questions. Our research then turns to the social sciences and project management sciences to see if the creation or adaptation of project management methods can facilitate this integration. In other fields such as industry, software engineering, or HMI design, we have seen the emergence of agile methods that focus more on design teams, and therefore communication, than on the process itself. After experimenting with several agile practices, we identified the need for a design team to be mentored by someone in the role of facilitator or coach. This article describes how we can transfer to students an agile practice called BIM-agile Coach that we experimented during a weeklong workshop.
keywords	Architectural design; Agile methods; Agile practices; BIM technology; Collaborative design; Project management
series	eCAADe
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_id	acadia18_232
id	acadia18_232
authors	Kilian, Axel
year	2018
title	The Flexing Room Architectural Robot. An Actuated Active-Bending Robotic Structure using Human Feedback
source	ACADIA // 2018: Recalibration. On imprecisionand infidelity. [Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-692-17729-7] Mexico City, Mexico 18-20 October, 2018, pp. 232-241
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2018.232
summary	Advances in autonomous control of object-scale robots, both anthropomorphic and vehicular, are posing new human–machine interface challenges. In architecture, very few examples of autonomous inhabitable robotic architecture exist. A number of factors likely contribute to this condition, among them the scale and cost of architectural adaptive systems, but on a more fundamental conceptual level also the questions of how architectural robots would communicate with their human inhabitants. The Flexing Room installation is a room-sized actuated active-bending skeleton structure. It uses rudimentary social feedback by counting people to inform its behavior in the form of actuated poses of the room enclosure. An operational full-scale prototype was constructed and tested. To operate it no geometric-based simulation was used; the only communication between computer and structure was in sending values for the air pressure settings and in gathering sensor feedback. The structure’s physical state was resolved through the embodied computation of its interconnected parts, and the people-counting sensor feedback influences its next action. Future work will explore the development of learning processes to improve the human–machine coexistence in space.
keywords	full paper, fabrication & robotics, non-production robotics, materials/adaptive systems, flexible structures
series	ACADIA
type	paper
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_id	sigradi2018_1348
id	sigradi2018_1348
authors	Bertuzzi, Juan Pablo; Chiarella, Mauro
year	2018
title	Gamification of Educational Environments through Virtual Reality Platforms
source	SIGraDi 2018 [Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - ISSN: 2318-6968] Brazil, São Carlos 7 - 9 November 2018, pp. 975-979
summary	This paper proposes the experimentation of new information and communication technologies through the development of an experimental and interactive virtual reality application, where educational content and game mechanics are incorporated, in order to generate interactivity within a digital 3D space and promote academic exchange in an innovative way. This project aims to the exploration of an open 3D digital environment, where the modeling is inspired by some sector of the physical space of the authors’ university, compatible for the incorporation of smart objects, avatars and a dialogue/activities system that deals with several educational topics.
keywords	Avatar; Gamification; Hybrid worlds; Techno-politics; Virtual reality
series	SIGRADI
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_id	ecaade2018_433
id	ecaade2018_433
authors	Daher, Elie, Kubicki, Sylvain and Pak, Burak
year	2018
title	Participation-based Parametric Design in Early Stages - A participative design process for spatial planning in office building
source	Kepczynska-Walczak, A, Bialkowski, S (eds.), Computing for a better tomorrow - Proceedings of the 36th eCAADe Conference - Volume 1, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland, 19-21 September 2018, pp. 429-438
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2018.1.429
summary	The term participation has been used to define different activities, such as civil debate, communication, consultation, delegation, self-help construction, political decisions. However, participation in design started from the idea that individuals whom being affected by a design project must contribute to the design process. Recently, designers have been moving closer to the future users and developing new ways to empower them to get involved in the design process. In this paper we rethink the way the early design process is developed in a participatory approach thanks to parametric methods. A use case is proposed showing the potential of parametric design methods to empower the participation of users in the design of their facilities. The use case is dealing in particular with the spatial planning of an office building where the users together with the spatial planning team are able to design the layout spatial configuration by 1) fixing the objectives, 2) manipulating the model, 3)modifying some parameters, 4) visualizing the iterations and evaluating in a real-time each solution in an interactive 3D environment and together with facility managers 5) choosing the configuration of the spatial layout.
keywords	Computational design; Participatory design; Optimization ; Parametric design
series	eCAADe
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_id	sigradi2018_1602
id	sigradi2018_1602
authors	Domício de Meneses, Vítor; Ribeiro Cardoso, Daniel
year	2018
title	Participatory processes in the contemporary city: what is the role of Information and Communication Technologies?
source	SIGraDi 2018 [Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - ISSN: 2318-6968] Brazil, São Carlos 7 - 9 November 2018, pp. 1292-1297
summary	Urban planning is composed of actions that bring together actors and diverse interests and, therefore, many obstacles. Participation is a fundamental factor for the success of these processes in search of fairer cities as it promotes the exacerbation of conflicts. This research investigates the role of Technologies and Information and Communication (TICs) in participatory processes. For this, virtual participation devices were raised and a connection was made from the established connections between governors and governed. Thus, the objective is to study the potential of ICT use in the construction of more coherent participatory processes.
keywords	Participation; City; Information and Communication Technologies
series	SIGRADI
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_id	caadria2018_284
id	caadria2018_284
authors	Mühlhaus, Michael, Jenney, Sarah Louise and Petzold, Frank
year	2018
title	Take a Look Through My Eyes: An Augmented Reality Planning Communication System
source	T. Fukuda, W. Huang, P. Janssen, K. Crolla, S. Alhadidi (eds.), Learning, Adapting and Prototyping - Proceedings of the 23rd CAADRIA Conference - Volume 1, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 17-19 May 2018, pp. 379-388
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2018.1.379
summary	Participation and communication in urban planning, visualisation, spatial perception, and motivation through gamification are discussed and system requirements derived. An augmented reality multi-client communication prototype is described improving transparency and utilising local expertise in planning processes. The selection, processing and visualisation of planning data takes individual stakeholders knowledge and skill levels, cultural backgrounds, and interests into account to facilitate understanding through moderation and the ability to change perspective.
keywords	Augmented Reality; Gameification; Communication; Public Participation; Visualisation
series	CAADRIA
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_id	caadria2018_057
id	caadria2018_057
authors	Nandavar, Anirudh, Petzold, Frank, Nassif, Jimmy and Schubert, Gerhard
year	2018
title	Interactive Virtual Reality Tool for BIM Based on IFC - Development of OpenBIM and Game Engine Based Layout Planning Tool - A Novel Concept to Integrate BIM and VR with Bi-Directional Data Exchange
source	T. Fukuda, W. Huang, P. Janssen, K. Crolla, S. Alhadidi (eds.), Learning, Adapting and Prototyping - Proceedings of the 23rd CAADRIA Conference - Volume 1, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 17-19 May 2018, pp. 453-462
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2018.1.453
summary	With recent advancements in VR (Virtual Reality) technology in the past year, it has emerged as a new paradigm in visualization and immersive HMI (Human-machine Interface). On the other hand, in the past decades, BIM (Building Information Modelling) has emerged as the new standard of implementing construction projects and is quickly becoming a norm than just a co-ordination tool in the AEC industry.Visualization of the digital data in BIM plays an important role as it is the primary communication medium to the project participants, where VR can offer a new dimension of experiencing BIM and improving the collaboration of various stakeholders of a project. There are both open source and commercial solutions to extend visualization of a BIM project in VR, but so far, there are no complete solutions that offer a pure IFC format based solution, which makes the VR integration vendor neutral. This work endeavors to develop a concept for a vendor-neutral BIM-VR integration with bi-directional data exchange in order to extend VR as a collaboration tool than a mere visualization tool in the BIM ecosystem.
keywords	BIM; VR; IFC; Unity; BIM-VR integration; HMI
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ecaade2018_385
id	ecaade2018_385
authors	Schulz, Daniel, Reiter, Felix, Metche, Alexander and Werner, Liss C.
year	2018
title	Data Flow - a GIS based interactive planning tool for educational facilities
source	Kepczynska-Walczak, A, Bialkowski, S (eds.), Computing for a better tomorrow - Proceedings of the 36th eCAADe Conference - Volume 1, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland, 19-21 September 2018, pp. 497-506
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2018.1.497
summary	This paper describes the development of a Grasshopper-based planning support tool for urban planning. The tool aims at the analysis of demand in educational facilities and the optimization of their location and capacities. It was developed for the use case of Berlin using only publicly available resources and data sets. Through preprocessed GIS- and statistical data plus an easy-access interface, the tool encourages people from different backgrounds and even those with no professional knowledge in planning, to engage in urban decision making. Although being initially aimed at contributing to a moderated participation process, the tool's simple GUI (graphical user interface) and open source backend, make it usable in any setup - without a briefed advisor or the need for later professional evaluation by another party.
keywords	urban planning; data visualization; gamification; education; GIS
series	eCAADe
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_id	ecaade2018_335
id	ecaade2018_335
authors	Seifert, Nils and Petzold, Frank
year	2018
title	Architects & Algorithms - Developing Interactive Visualizations for Architectural Communication
source	Kepczynska-Walczak, A, Bialkowski, S (eds.), Computing for a better tomorrow - Proceedings of the 36th eCAADe Conference - Volume 1, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland, 19-21 September 2018, pp. 361-370
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2018.1.361
summary	The paper presents the concept and results of a seminar that addresses the intersecting fields of architecture and urbanism, data and information visualization as well as information technology. In the first part of the paper, an introduction to the seminar topic and relevance in the context of architectural education and practice is given. Subsequently, the course concept, the learning contents and the corresponding learning objectives are presented. In the second part, selected student projects are shown as exemplary course results. In the conclusion, the results of the seminar for students, teachers and research implications are discussed. The overall aim of this publication is to draw on the experience gained in this field of education to offer starting points for others in developing similar teaching concepts and support for their implementation.
keywords	Urban Planning; Programming; Information Design; Data Visualization; Smart City; Processing
series	eCAADe
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_id	caadria2018_016
id	caadria2018_016
authors	Zahedi, Ata and Petzold, Frank
year	2018
title	Utilization of Simulation Tools in Early Design Phases Through Adaptive Detailing Strategies
source	T. Fukuda, W. Huang, P. Janssen, K. Crolla, S. Alhadidi (eds.), Learning, Adapting and Prototyping - Proceedings of the 23rd CAADRIA Conference - Volume 2, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 17-19 May 2018, pp. 11-20
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2018.2.011
summary	Decisions taken at early stages of building design have a significant effect on the planning steps for the entire lifetime of the project as well as the performance of the building throughout its lifecycle (MacLeamy 2004). Building Information Modelling (BIM) could bring forward and enhance the planning and decision-making processes by enabling the direct reuse of data hold by the model for diverse analysis and simulation tasks (Borrmann et al. 2015). The architect today besides a couple of simplified simulation tools almost exclusively uses his know-how for evaluating and comparing design variants in the early stages of design. This paper focuses on finding new ways to facilitate the use of analytical and simulation tools during the important early phases of conceptual building design, where the models are partially incomplete. The necessary enrichment and proper detailing of the design model could be achieved by means of dialogue-based interaction concepts with analytical and simulation tools through adaptive detailing strategies. This concept is explained using an example scenario for design process. A generic description of the aimed dialog-based interface to various simulation tools will also be discussed in this paper using an example scenario.
keywords	BIM; Early Design Stages; Adaptive Detailing ; Communication Protocols; Design Variants
series	CAADRIA
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_id	ecaade2018_231
id	ecaade2018_231
authors	Di Mascio, Danilo, Kepczynska-Walczak, Anetta, Webb, Nicholas and Schnabel, Marc Aurel
year	2018
title	A Critical Evaluation of Two Contextualised Digital Heritage Workshops - Descriptions, reflections and future directions
source	Kepczynska-Walczak, A, Bialkowski, S (eds.), Computing for a better tomorrow - Proceedings of the 36th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland, 19-21 September 2018, pp. 189-198
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2018.2.189
summary	In the following paper, a description, a comparison, a series of reflections, and future directions of two successful Contextualized Digital Heritage Workshops (CDHW) will be presented. The workshops have been organized during the eCAADe and CAADRIA conferences. The importance of architectural heritage as an expression of a local history and identity in a world that is more and more globalised is evident. Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, together with the use of digital technologies open new opportunities in the comprehension, documentation, analysis, reuse and dissemination of architectural heritage. The main concept behind a CDHW is to connect the event (and its wide variety of participants) to a specific local context in a multidisciplinary way. The paper defines and proposes a methodology to critically evaluate the two workshops and their individual aspects in order to identify and investigate ideas that can be explored during future CDHWs.
keywords	digital heritage; workshops; context; design; collaboration
series	eCAADe
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_id	acadia20_382
id	acadia20_382
authors	Hosmer, Tyson; Tigas, Panagiotis; Reeves, David; He, Ziming
year	2020
title	Spatial Assembly with Self-Play Reinforcement Learning
source	ACADIA 2020: Distributed Proximities / Volume I: Technical Papers [Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-578-95213-0]. Online and Global. 24-30 October 2020. edited by B. Slocum, V. Ago, S. Doyle, A. Marcus, M. Yablonina, and M. del Campo. 382-393.
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2020.1.382
summary	We present a framework to generate intelligent spatial assemblies from sets of digitally encoded spatial parts designed by the architect with embedded principles of prefabrication, assembly awareness, and reconfigurability. The methodology includes a bespoke constraint-solving algorithm for autonomously assembling 3D geometries into larger spatial compositions for the built environment. A series of graph-based analysis methods are applied to each assembly to extract performance metrics related to architectural space-making goals, including structural stability, material density, spatial segmentation, connectivity, and spatial distribution. Together with the constraint-based assembly algorithm and analysis methods, we have integrated a novel application of deep reinforcement (RL) learning for training the models to improve at matching the multiperformance goals established by the user through self-play. RL is applied to improve the selection and sequencing of parts while considering local and global objectives. The user’s design intent is embedded through the design of partial units of 3D space with embedded fabrication principles and their relational constraints over how they connect to each other and the quantifiable goals to drive the distribution of effective features. The methodology has been developed over three years through three case study projects called ArchiGo (2017–2018), NoMAS (2018–2019), and IRSILA (2019-2020). Each demonstrates the potential for buildings with reconfigurable and adaptive life cycles.
series	ACADIA
type	paper
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_id	caadria2018_210
id	caadria2018_210
authors	Lin, Yuqiong, Zheng, Jingyun, Yao, Jiawei and Yuan, Philip F.
year	2018
title	Research on Physical Wind Tunnel and Dynamic Model Based Building Morphology Generation Method
source	T. Fukuda, W. Huang, P. Janssen, K. Crolla, S. Alhadidi (eds.), Learning, Adapting and Prototyping - Proceedings of the 23rd CAADRIA Conference - Volume 2, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 17-19 May 2018, pp. 165-174
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2018.2.165
summary	The change of the building morphology directly affects the surrounding environment, while the evaluation of these environment data becomes the main basis for the genetic iterations of the building morphology. Indeed, due to the complexity of the outdoor natural ventilation, multiple factors in the site could be the main reasons for the change of air flow. Thus, the architect is suggested to take the wind environment as the main morphology generation factor in the early stage of the building design. Based on the research results of 2017 DigitalFUTURE Wind Tunnel Visualization Workshop, a novel self-form-finding method in design infancy has been proposed. This method uses Arduino to carry out the dynamic design of the building model, which can not only connect the sensor to monitor the wind environment data, but also contribute the building model to correlate with the wind environment data in real time. The integration of the Arduino platform and the physical wind tunnel can create the possibility of continuous and real-time physical changes, data collection and wind environment simulation, using quantitative environmental factors to control building morphology, and finally achieve the harmony among the building, environment and human.
keywords	Physical wind tunnel; dynamic model; building morphology generation; environmental performance design; wind environment visualization
series	CAADRIA
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_id	acadia18_30
id	acadia18_30
authors	Przybylski, Maya
year	2018
title	Critical Computational Literacy: A Call for the Development of Socially Aware, Ethically Minded Research within ACADIA
source	ACADIA // 2018: Recalibration. On imprecisionand infidelity. [Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-692-17729-7] Mexico City, Mexico 18-20 October, 2018, pp. 30-35
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2018.030
summary	As computational design matures and strives to move out of the studio/lab and into the real world, multiple dimensions of literacy, valuing the social, the political, and the ethical as well as the technical and the creative, must be acknowledged and supported. This paper evaluates the presence of research advancing socially aware, ethically minded issues currently found in ACADIA’s body of research and offers a strategy for shaping future work in this area. First, data from the CumInCAD index is used to provide a quantitative understanding of the degree to which these issues are represented in ACADIA’s history, with particular focus on the last decade. The paper goes on to articulate key offerings from the field of Software Studies to motivate and identify possible entry points for computational designers to further engage the social and ethical agencies tied to their work. Within this context, the paper argues that the set of lenses used to understand a project's digital components expands to include social, cultural, political, and ethical effects in addition to the technical realities of implementation. The analytical methods presented are intended to support a preliminary survey of ACADIA's literature and serve as a first step in identifying avenues for pursuing socially aware, ethically minded computational design research.
keywords	work in progress, design theory & history, history/theory of computation, hybrid practices, ethics
series	ACADIA
type	paper
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_id	ecaade2018_145
id	ecaade2018_145
authors	Fukuda, Tomohiro, Zhu, Yuehan and Yabuki, Nobuyoshi
year	2018
title	Point Cloud Stream on Spatial Mixed Reality - Toward Telepresence in Architectural Field
source	Kepczynska-Walczak, A, Bialkowski, S (eds.), Computing for a better tomorrow - Proceedings of the 36th eCAADe Conference - Volume 2, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland, 19-21 September 2018, pp. 727-734
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2018.2.727
summary	In remote meetings that involve the study of buildings and cities, sharing three-dimensional (3D) virtual spatial of buildings and cities is just as necessary as sharing the appearances and voices of meeting participants. Because of this, system development and pilot projects have attempted to share 3D virtual models via the internet in real-time but is still insufficient compared with face-to-face meeting. Therefore, this research explores the applicability of a spatial mixed reality (MR) system that displays point cloud streams to realize 3D remote meeting in architecture and urban fields. MR is a new technology that enables 3D presentations of various information, combining the physical and virtual worlds. One MR method is telepresence, which is expected to give people a way to communicate remotely as if face to face in a realistic way. We first developed a MR system named PcsMR (Point cloud stream on mixed reality) to display point cloud streams. The PcsMR system's operation consists of generating and transferring a point cloud stream and then rendering a point cloud stream using MR. The PcsMR acquired the point cloud stream in real-time using Kinect for Windows v2 and transferred it to Microsoft HoloLens, which uses optical see-through MR. Then we constructed two prototypes based on PcsMR and carried out pilot projects. Through observing the experiments, application possibilities for architecture and urban fields are found in meetings and communications that share real-time 3D objects and include the movement of remote participants and objects. The proposed method was evaluated feasible and effective.
keywords	Telepresence; Mixed reality; Point cloud stream; Remote meeting; Real time
series	eCAADe
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last changed	2022/06/07 07:50

_id	acadia18_294
id	acadia18_294
authors	Kieffer, Lynn; Nicholas, Paul
year	2018
title	Pneumatically Actuated Material. Exploration of the mophospace of an adaptable system of soft actuators
source	ACADIA // 2018: Recalibration. On imprecisionand infidelity. [Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 978-0-692-17729-7] Mexico City, Mexico 18-20 October, 2018, pp. 294-301
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2018.294
summary	This research in progress investigates a design and fabrication method of an adaptable and programmable composite material in an embodied computation system. It develops a workflow for a behavior-based model, the exploration of the morpho-space associated with the combinatorial assembly and the actuation of soft elements. The aggregation of individually actuatable and soft units in a system creates a large potential regarding adaptability, flexibility and reconfigurability, through a non-rigid and non-mechanical system. The cells are developed through a process of prototyping on origami and auxetic pattern inspired soft robotic elements. Every soft cell is pneumatically actuated through a negative pressure environment. The computational simulation is informed by the prototyping process and its findings. The simulation-based design of such an assembled system allows prediction of the aggregated shape and outputs a sequencing table, describing the actuation status of every cell and can create a tool to communicate between material and computational system
keywords	work in progress,pneumatic actuation, adaptable soft material
series	ACADIA
type	paper
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