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_id	b7ff
authors	Mullins, Michael and Van Zyl, Douw
year	2000
title	Self-Selecting Digital Design Students
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2000.085
source	Promise and Reality: State of the Art versus State of Practice in Computing for the Design and Planning Process [18th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9523687-6-5] Weimar (Germany) 22-24 June 2000, pp. 85-88
summary	Recent years have seen the increasing use of digital media in undergraduate architectural education at UND, and which has been fuelled by students themselves taking up the tools available to practising architects. This process of self-selection may hold valuable lessons for the development of architectural curricula. An experimental design studio offered as an elective to UND undergraduates in 1999 has indicated that the design work produced therein, most often differed remarkably from the previous work of the same students using only traditional media. In so far as digital environments rapidly provide new and strange objects and images for students to encounter, those students are driven to interpret, transform or customise that environment in innovative ways, thereby making it their own. It is clear that the full integration of digital environments into architectural education will profoundly effect the outcomes of student work. We have observed that some self-selecting students struggle in expressing ideas through repre-sentative form in traditional studios. The question arises whether these students are "onto something" which they intuitively understand as better suited to their abilities, or whether in fact they are see digital tools as a means to avoid those areas in design in which they experience difficulties. Through observation of a group of "self-selectors" the authors attempt to lead useful generalisations; to develop a theory and method for facilitators to deal with specific students; and to work toward the development of suitable curricula for these cases.
keywords	Architectural Education, Digital Media, Learning Styles
series	eCAADe
email
more	http://www.uni-weimar.de/ecaade/
last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	2004_136
id	2004_136
authors	Mullins, Michael and Zupancic Strojan, Tadeja
year	2004
title	Depth Perception in CAVE and Panorama
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2004.136
source	Architecture in the Network Society [22nd eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9541183-2-4] Copenhagen (Denmark) 15-18 September 2004, pp. 136-141
summary	This study compares aspects of spatial perception in a physical environment and its virtual representations in a CAVE and Panorama, derived from recent research. To measure accuracy of spatial perception, participants in an experiment were asked to look at identical objects in the three environments and then locate them and identify their shape on scaled drawings. Results are presented together with statistical analysis. In a discussion of the results, the paper addresses the two hypothetical assertions – that depth perception in physical reality and its virtual representations in CAVE and Panorama are quantifiably different, and that differences are attributable to prior contextual experience of the viewer. The role of prior or tacit knowledge in these environments is established from the empirical data. It is concluded that the CAVE offers a higher potential for spatial experience and learning than the Panorama. The results also suggests that knowledge gained in physical contexts is more readily transferred to its virtual simulation, while that gained in virtual experience is not reliably transferred to its equivalent physical context. The paper discusses implications for spatial ability, learning and training in virtual environments; in architectural education; and participatory design processes, in which the dialogue between real and imagined space may take place in virtual reality techniques.
keywords	Virtual Reality; Perception; Spatial Ability; Learning; Virtual Context
series	eCAADe
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	2005_155
id	2005_155
authors	Mullins, Michael, Kirkegaard, Poul Henning, Jessen, Rasmus Zederkof and Klitgaard Jens
year	2005
title	A Topology Optimization Approach to Learning in Architectural Design
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2005.155
source	Digital Design: The Quest for New Paradigms [23nd eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9541183-3-2] Lisbon (Portugal) 21-24 September 2005, pp. 155-162
summary	Topology optimization methods offer an interesting tool for architects and engineers as a rational basis for the choice of a structure’s initial form, particularly as developments in computer software are compatible with this approach. This can be argued from ecology, resource savings, static load design, financial and a number of other pragmatic reasons. But in an artistic/architectural perspective these are not decisive. Analogical design qualities include a tectonic appreciation of the properties of materials, metaphoric interpretation of intention and considerations of context. The paper describes an attempt to unify analytic and analogical approaches in an architectural education setting, using topology optimization software. It uses as examples recent student projects where the architectural design process based on a topology optimization approach has been investigated. The paper describes and presents results obtained by the students during the project. Further, a discussion is delivered concerning the improved understanding of tectonic design obtained by the student during the projects.
keywords	Architectural Education, Topology Optimization, Tectonic Design
series	eCAADe
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	f9f7
authors	Mullins, Michael
year	1999
title	Forming, Planning, Imaging and Connecting
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1999.178
source	Architectural Computing from Turing to 2000 [eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9523687-5-7] Liverpool (UK) 15-17 September 1999, pp. 178-185
summary	This paper sets out to define aspects of the architectural design process, using historical precedent and architectural theory, and tests the relationship of those aspects to the application of computers in architectural design, particularly in an educational context. The design process sub-sets are defined as: Forming, Planning, Imaging and Connecting. Historical precedents are uncovered in Classical, Modern, Postmodern and Contemporary architecture. The defined categories of the design process are related to current usages of computers in architectural education towards elucidating the strengths and weaknesses of digital media in those areas. Indications of their concurrent usage in digital design will be demonstrated in analysis of design studio programs presented at recent ACADIA conferences. An example of a current design studio programme set at the School of Architecture University of Natal, South Africa in which the above described categories give an underlying structure to the introduction of 3D digital modelling to undergraduates through design process. The definition of this set of design activities may offer a useful method for other educators in assessing existing and future design programs where digital tools are used.
keywords	Design-Process, Digital-Media, Design-Programmes
series	eCAADe
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	ijac20053108
id	ijac20053108
authors	Mullins, Michael; [Zupancic] Strojan, Tadeja Z.
year	2005
title	Representational Thickness: a quantitative comparison between physical, CAVE and Panorama environments
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 3 - no. 1, 127-144
summary	This study compares aspects of spatial perception in a physical environment and its virtual representations in a CAVE and Panorama. To measure accuracy of spatial perception, users were asked to look at identical objects in the three environments and then locate them and identify their shape on scaled drawings. Results were then statistically compared for differences. In a discussion of the results, the paper addresses three hypothetical assertions – that depth perception in physical reality and its virtual representations in CAVE and Panorama are quantifiably different; that differences are attributable to prior contextual experience of the viewer; and that design professionals and laypeople have different perceptions of what they see in VR. In conclusion, the concept of 'representational thickness' is suggested by the results.
series	journal
type	normal paper
more	http://www.multi-science.co.uk/ijac.htm
last changed	2007/03/04 07:08

_id	2006_464
id	2006_464
authors	Mullins, Michael; Tadeja Zupancic, Christian Kühn, Paul Coates and Orhan Kipcak
year	2006
title	V I PA: A virtual campus for virtual space design
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2006.464
source	Communicating Space(s) [24th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9541183-5-9] Volos (Greece) 6-9 September 2006, pp. 464-469
summary	The conceptual design of virtual spaces is creating new places in which to live and work. In consequence, new opportunities for work and employment are opening up for architects as well as for architectural educators. In response to this challenge, VIPA, a transnational virtual campus is currently being developed; it contains an e-learning and research platform for European architectural schools with a focus on virtual space design. The virtual campus integrates administrative, curricular, and communicative infrastructures, interactive, multimedia 3-D contents, and pedagogical considerations in respect of the aims, content and technologies employed. Virtual campuses are already established at most universities in the European Community, yet surprisingly e-learning is not yet widespread in architectural schools in Europe. E-learning is arguably still in an initial research phase; although there are best practice examples where e-learning is already replacing traditional study forms in other teaching disciplines. However, it has been found that although all the universities involved in the VIPA project have been involved in e-learning projects for many years, there is a considerable resistance to e-learning as being equally effective as traditional face-to-face studio teaching. Given the new virtual conditions of space design however, new contexts for learning are increasingly relevant. University curricula have developed out of local competencies, networks of teachers and researchers. These local factors need to be woven into the fabric of a transnational VIPA curriculum and supported with organizational layout, platform, user interfaces and their features. Participants will offer existing courses in virtual space design, as well as developing new ones. This offers the option for both present and future participants to adjust the VIPA courseware to suit local curricula demands, while offering a large range of courses and knowledge. An additional feature of VIPA is thus as a platform for curricula development in virtual space design. The paper reports on the VIPA project’s aims, pedagogical problems, solutions, course content and methods; it will describe prototype results from participating universities and include perspectives on its future application.
keywords	Architectural Education; E-Learning; Virtual Space
series	eCAADe
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	765e
authors	Mumma, S.A. and Bolin, R.J.
year	1997
title	Energy optimized-ventilation constrained variable air volume system control
source	Automation in Construction 6 (5-6) (1997) pp. 463-470
summary	The analytical energy performance of an advanced energy optimized-ventilation constrained control approach to variable air volume systems was compared to four other controls. The other controls are either currently used or have been proposed in the literature. The advanced control demonstrated its potential to meet the ventilation requirements of ASHRAE Standard 62-1989 for every zone of the building with minimal energy consumption. The analytical work was carried out in a single story prototypical commercial building. The building was analyzed in five US cities to provide insight into the impact of climate on the performance of the advanced control. The advanced control consumed less total energy, considerably less in some cities, than the other four controls. The advanced control provides an excellent opportunity to apply to buildings new automation equipment and software never attempted before.
series	journal paper
more	http://www.elsevier.com/locate/autcon
last changed	2003/05/15 21:23

_id	acadia14projects_67
id	acadia14projects_67
authors	Mun, Kris
year	2014
title	Vitalized Geometry
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.acadia.2014.067
source	ACADIA 14: Design Agency [Projects of the 34th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 9789126724478]Los Angeles 23-25 October, 2014), pp. 67-70
summary	Vitalized Geometry: A world of intensive and extensive forces in constant negotiation towards the production of beauty….
keywords	Material Agency, Interactive Environments, Material Logics and Tectonics, Digital fabrication, Craft in a Digital Age
series	ACADIA
type	Research Projects
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	caadria2019_671
id	caadria2019_671
authors	Mun, Kristine, Clemenson, Dane and Bogosian, Biayna
year	2019
title	The Well Tempered Environment of Experience - (Neuro)Scientific Methods for Data Collection, Analysis & Visualization
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2019.1.573
source	M. Haeusler, M. A. Schnabel, T. Fukuda (eds.), Intelligent & Informed - Proceedings of the 24th CAADRIA Conference - Volume 1, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, 15-18 April 2019, pp. 573-582
summary	In our ever increasing media(ted) world, the robustness of digital communication networked environment is transforming how we relate to our environment. With the rise of the Internet of Things (IOTs) and other ubiquitous mobile communication devices connecting our bodies to our environments, our spaces are requiring a recalibration of the 'well tempered environment'. As technological devices are becoming seamlessly fused with our everyday lifestyles, habits and spaces, articulating experience is one of the most important topics to discuss in human-centered approach to design. This paper presents the initial methods for a data-driven process to enhance human experience as the central motivation. Combining knowledge from neuroscience and experimenting with embodied medias such as Virtual and Augmented Reality (+ MR) , the inquiries into the human dimension is explored in novel ways. The aim is to show how data-driven experiments could be used to assist designers find better performative solutions and that new collaborations between scientist and designers are on the rise as data moves fluidly between bodies and spaces like air in our 21st century.
keywords	Experience Design; Human-Computer-Interface; Emotion; Neuroscience; VR, AR & Mixed Reality, Human Centered Design, Data-Driven Design; Interactivity
series	CAADRIA
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	acadia22_290
id	acadia22_290
authors	Mun, Kristine; Bogosian, Biayna
year	2022
title	Experimentations in Neuroscience for Architecture
source	ACADIA 2022: Hybrids and Haecceities [Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) ISBN 979-8-9860805-8-1]. University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. 27-29 October 2022. edited by M. Akbarzadeh, D. Aviv, H. Jamelle, and R. Stuart-Smith. 290-293.
summary	Integrating computational methods in design and construction has intensified the discipline’s focus on quantifying buildings and occupants. However, when quantifying the human body, the metrics are often related to the physical dimensions (proportions, loads, heat, cold) and not psychological or psychophysical (stress, perception, emotion). This Field Note builds on the authors’ experience and research focused on a ‘Neuroscience for Architecture’ approach to designing healthier environments
series	ACADIA
type	field note
email
last changed	2024/02/06 14:00

_id	ef69
authors	Muneer, T. and Kambezidis, H.
year	1997
title	Solar radiation and daylight models for the energy efficient design of buildings
source	Oxford ; Boston, Architectural Press
summary	Electronic product for calculation of data at any point in the world. * Very important data source. * Looks at current green building design issues * Has the hallmark of a classic source product This book and CD Rom package provides an accessible, user-friendly database on daylight design data. With the boom in interest in energy-efficiency and solar design, it provides a valuable source for architects and engineers.
series	other
last changed	2003/04/23 15:14

_id	sigradi2007_af72
id	sigradi2007_af72
authors	Muniz da Silva, Erivelton
year	2007
title	An Urban Project Memory as a Hypertext [O Hiperdocumento como Memória do Projeto Urbano]
source	SIGraDi 2007 - [Proceedings of the 11th Iberoamerican Congress of Digital Graphics] México D.F. - México 23-25 October 2007, pp. 350-354
summary	The theme of this paper was conceived after observing the dificulty in access information about urban plans developed or contracted by public or governmental entities. We assume that, in governmental public programs with similar goals, recreating solutions is a daily action, which is, clearly, an unnecessary loss of time and resources, even more when someone is assigned to do something already done. The system presented in this paper aims at concentrating and organizing those informations in order to allow urban planners and designers to search for existing solutions to their projects and answers to their current needs.
keywords	Urbanism; database; Multimidia; Internet; Pattern
series	SIGRADI
email
last changed	2016/03/10 09:55

_id	sigradi2016_393
id	sigradi2016_393
authors	Muniz, Leonardo Oliveira; Marino, Tiago Badre; Silva, Jorge Xavier da
year	2016
title	Geoinclus?o: Sistemas de Informaç?o Geográfica e Crowdthinking [Geoinclusion: Geographical Information Systems and Crowdthinking]
source	SIGraDi 2016 [Proceedings of the 20th Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics - ISBN: 978-956-7051-86-1] Argentina, Buenos Aires 9 - 11 November 2016, pp.471-475
summary	This article aims to disseminate the concept of "geoinclusion" for the iberoamerican scientific community. This concept was created in 2007 by the ‘GIS Laboratory’ of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) to operationalize the "crowdthinking" through Geographic Information Systems (specially the web and mobile versions). Ever since, it was tested by educational, health, safety and environment sectors and the result was the creation and continuous improvement of the web plataform VICON.SAGA. The paper will demonstrate its four fundamental principles of knowledge construction: decentralization, authenticity, integration and resilience.
keywords	Geoinclusion; Geographical Information Systems; Crowdthinking
series	SIGRADI
email
last changed	2021/03/28 19:59

_id	f7d5
authors	Murakami, T. and Nakajima, N.
year	2000
title	DO-IT: deformable object as input tool for 3-D geometric operation
source	Computer-Aided Design, Vol. 32 (1) (2000) pp. 5-16
summary	In this paper, a new concept of an interface system for 3-D geometric operation using a deformable real object as an input tool is proposed. By deforming the tool with barehands by tactile feedback, users can deform a 3-D shape modeled and displayed on a computer screen directly and intuitively. By adopting a free form deformation-orientedapproach, the interface enables various types of 3-D shape operations using a rather simple input tool. A prototype of the deformable object as input tool (DO-IT) interfacesystem using a cubic input tool made of foam rubber and strain gauges demonstrates the effectiveness and potential of the concept.
keywords	Human Interface, 3-D Input Device, Geometric Operation
series	journal paper
email
last changed	2003/05/15 21:33

_id	2064
authors	Murakami, Y., Morozumi, M., Iino, K., Homma, R. and Iki, K.
year	1997
title	On the Development and the Use of Group Work CAD for Windows-PCS
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.1997.179
source	CAADRIA ‘97 [Proceedings of the Second Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia / ISBN 957-575-057-8] Taiwan 17-19 April 1997, pp. 179-186
summary	With the development of high-band width communication technology, designers’ interests seem to shift gradually from a single-user, single-domain system to a network based group-work design system. So long as one regards that the design activity develops only in a concurrent, but asynchronous fashions, it is possible to say that file transfers through computer networks have already opened up the possibility of a hands-on collaborative design process in which all participants do not have to gather in the same place. However few CAD systems support group design work that develops in a concurrent synchronous fashion. This paper discusses a basic model of group work CAD systems that the authors have developed for windows PCs linked with LAN. Reviewing procedure of system operation, the authors conclude that the system could stimulate and accelerate a process of group wok design.
series	CAADRIA
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	ijac20097205
id	ijac20097205
authors	Muramoto, Katsuhiko; Jemtrud, Michael; Kumar, Sonali; Balakrishnan, Bimal; Wiley, Danielle
year	2009
title	A Cyber-Enabled Collaborative Design Studio
source	International Journal of Architectural Computing vol. 7 - no. 2, 267-288
summary	The research project investigates the use of a network-enabled platform involving a combination of technologies. As a preliminary report on a proof-of-concept design studio conducted in 2007 between Carleton University and Pennsylvania State University, the paper first describes the implementation of this network-centric collaborative design platform. The report articulates the “staging” of the conditions of possibility for a dynamic interplay between technological mediation and the reality of making, then compares the use of high bandwidth technology with customized symmetrical toolsets in the telecollaborative environment, versus commercial toolsets deployed over moderate bandwidth connections. In each setting, the collaborative environment is assessed according to issues encountered by students and design outcomes. The effectiveness of the digitally mediated collaborative studio is also gauged in terms of student reaction to the learning process via feedback surveys and questionnaires.
series	journal
last changed	2009/08/11 08:39

_id	caadria2008_45_session4b_364
id	caadria2008_45_session4b_364
authors	Muramoto, Katsuhiko; Sonali Kumar, Michael Jemtrud, Danielle Wiley
year	2008
title	Participation, Intersubjectivity, And Presence In a Digitally Mediated Workspace: A Participatory Design Studio between Pennsylvania State University and Carleton University
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.caadria.2008.364
source	CAADRIA 2008 [Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia] Chiang Mai (Thailand) 9-12 April 2008, pp. 364-370
summary	A paradigm shift in the world of architecture brought by the recent developments in visualization and communication technology not only offers us drastically different ways to collaborate, but also questions traditional location dependent collaborations. This new technology offers us new possibilities for a more phenomenologically rich mode of creative activity and participation. The goal of the Participatory Design Studio was to allow architecture students in multiple locations to collaborate in real-time by sharing computational resources, geometric datasets, and multimedia content including high-definition video. The technologies involved in this research include the National LambdaRail (layer 3, PacketNet with 1Gb/s connection) and CA*net 4 (Canadian broadband layer 2 with 10gb/s lightpath connectivity) allowing Standard Definition videoconference, utilization of Deep Computing Visualization, Remote Visual Networking (RVN) and Web Service access and control of the APN devices through the dashboard solution that makes integration seamless to the workflow and transparent to the user.
keywords	design: collaboration; tele-presence; visualization; broadband
series	CAADRIA
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	ddss9467
id	ddss9467
authors	Murison, Alison
year	1994
title	A CAD Interface to Objective Assessment of Design to Support Decision Making in Urban Planning
source	Second Design and Decision Support Systems in Architecture & Urban Planning (Vaals, the Netherlands), August 15-19, 1994
summary	The Department of Architecture at Edinburgh College of Art, Heriot Watt University, has an on-going project to create useful implementations of the method of spatial analysis called Space Syntax developed by Prof Bill Hillier at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London. Space Syntax can predict the potential usage of each route through an urban space or large building; some routes will be avoided by most traffic (pedestrian or vehicular), while other routes will become busy thoroughfares. It has been used by Architects and Urban Designers to support proposed developments, whether to show that potential commercial activity ought to be concentrated in an area of high traffic, or to change routes through troubled housing estates, bringing the protection of added traffic to areas previously avoided for fear of mugging. The paper describes how a specially written customized version of AutoCAD enables Post Graduate students of Urban Design and Undergraduate Architecture students to test their designs against the Space Syntax Measures. Simple interactive graphics enable plans to be entered and compared, so that plans may be evaluated during the design process, and decisions supported by objective tests. This improves both design decisions and the learning process, and should be useful to many professionals in urban planning.
series	DDSS
email
last changed	2003/08/07 16:36

_id	2fb2
authors	Murison, Alison
year	1996
title	Computer Based Learning for Architecture Students; A Methodology for Evaluating the Teaching and Learning
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1996.287
source	Education for Practice [14th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9523687-2-2] Lund (Sweden) 12-14 September 1996, pp. 287-292
summary	The paper describes a methodology applied to the production, and evaluation of a computer based teaching package. In producing multimedia materials for teaching or for presentation, too much emphasis is sometimes given to the beauty of the images while not enough thought is given to the structure of the material. Is the student or "viewer" led through all the most important information? Can the use of computer based learning improve the quality of the teaching and learning experience? These issues are addressed, using as an example the production and testing of a package designed to complement a course on History of Scottish Architecture intended for senior students and especially to emphasise the Scottish context for exchange students. The package describes Linlithgow Palace in Scotland, showing how the contemporary political links between the Scotland and Italy were influential in the development of Renaissance architecture in Scotland.
series	eCAADe
email
more	http://www.hw.ac.uk/
last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

_id	b0b0
authors	Murison, Alison
year	1999
title	Less is More - Enhancing CAD Instruction by Enabling Student Centred Learning, a Case Study for Learning 2000
doi	https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1999.262
source	Architectural Computing from Turing to 2000 [eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9523687-5-7] Liverpool (UK) 15-17 September 1999, pp. 262-265
summary	This paper describes a structured programme of instruction in the use and application of CAD to architectural design, where programmed lectures and seminars were abandoned to be replaced by student centred learning and appropriate support. The Third Year CAD course at Edinburgh College of Art was reshaped completely. Only one lecture was given to outline the course, thereafter all attendance was optional, and a variety of learning methods were offered. Student reaction was recorded and the learning outcome assessed. Final student marks showed a definite improvement.
keywords	Learning, CAAD, Student Centred
series	eCAADe
email
last changed	2022/06/07 07:59

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