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Towards Human‐Centered Intelligent Inhabitable Spaces: A Review
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.This review introduces Robot‐Rooms as a new category of architectural‐scale robots that do not operate within a space but actively form and reconfigure the space around their occupants. Drawing from robotics, HCI, architecture, and the arts, an interdisciplinary framework is proposed that maps the enabling technologies and integration challenges ...
Nithesh Kumar +3 more
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Occupant-Centered Adaptive Façades Assessment Survey (OCAFAS-15) [PDF]
, 2019 The Occupant-Centered Adaptive Façades Assessment Survey (OCAFAS-15) is an instrument with good validity, reliability and high internal consistency in assessing well-being and interaction of occupants in buildings with adaptive facades.
Attia, Shady
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A typology of adaptive façades. An empirical study based on the morphology of glazed facades
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2021 A building’s façade is its main interface with the external environment. Adaptive façade, one recent invention in the façade industry, has the capability to change its behaviour in real-time to respond to internal and/or external parameters, by means of ...
Marcin Brzezicki
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python-adaptive/adaptive: v1.1.0
, 2023 <h2>What's Changed</h2> <ul> <li>[pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in https://github.com/python-adaptive/adaptive/pull/431</li> <li>[pre-commit.ci] pre-commit autoupdate by @pre-commit-ci in https:
Weston, Joseph +3 more
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American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract US universities are built on stolen land and sustained through hierarchies of power that produce what migrant justice scholars name as b/order regimes. As institutions that claim to be sites of learning and inclusion, universities are fraught with contradictions as simultaneously sites of dispossession, exclusion, and control.
Sara L. Buckingham +1 more
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Stakeholder Perspectives on Therapeutic and Safe Building Design in Residential Care
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Residential care is a form of out‐of‐home care that plays a critical role in supporting vulnerable young people in Australia. However, there is an evidence gap regarding the built environment in this context. This research aimed to explore the perspectives of key stakeholders in residential care in Victoria, Australia, regarding design that ...
Carmen Schroder +3 more
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Beyond the ESG Facade: Measuring and Addressing Corporate ‘Lip Service’
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid growing global attention to environmental, social and governance (ESG), this study examines the misalignment between ESG disclosures and actual practices—termed ‘lip service’—using data from Chinese firms from 2006 to 2022, constructing an index to quantify it.
Jia Xu, Mingwei Liu, Helen X. H. Bao
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Influence of loudspeaker directivity on the measurement uncertainty [PDF]
, 2011 One of the most significant aspects of a building’s acoustic behavior is the airborne sound insulation of the room façades, since this determines the protection of its inhabitants against environmental noise.
Sánchez Bote, José Luis +3 more
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The Fast, the Steady and the Tenacious: Funding Pathways for Circular Start‐Ups
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Circular start‐ups (CSUs) are critical for unlocking the circular economy, yet they face persistent barriers in accessing finance. Despite growing interest from policymakers and financing institutions, little empirical evidence explains how these ventures pursue and secure funding.
Pilar Mejía‐Vélez +4 more
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EnergiesAdaptive façades, also known as climate-adaptive building shells (CABSs), could make a significant contribution towards reducing the energy consumption of buildings and their environmental impacts.
Ismael Palacios Mackay +2 more
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