Title :
An approach toward unification of architectural design and habitability based on network sensing
Author :
Chikano, Machiko ; Hashimoto, Hideki ; Watanabe, Akiko
Author_Institution :
Yamatake Corp., Kanagawa, Japan
Abstract :
Recently, the mass customizations become a common idea for manufacturing products, and people seem like being able to get any products that they want. A house or a building is one of the last products to compromise with fulfilling the individual requirements. This paper describes our approach to realize a next generation living complex being able to align lifestyle changes of residents, or user requirements through lifetime periods of the complex. Establishing a platform structure unaffected by major technological changes is important to give a flexible and an upgradeable feature to a complex. Network sensing is a key idea to obtain information regarding human behaviors with appropriate reliability. Since there is no limitation of user-backgrounds in habitation environments, human interfaces are much more important than any other cases.
Keywords :
human computer interaction; intelligent sensors; user interfaces; architectural design; habitability based network sensing; habitation environments; human behaviors; human interfaces; information system; manufacturing products; mass customizations; reliability; user-backgrounds; Aging; Buildings; Electronic mail; Feedback; HEMTs; Home appliances; Humans; MODFETs; Senior citizens; Space technology;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Electronics Society, 2004. IECON 2004. 30th Annual Conference of IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8730-9
DOI :
10.1109/IECON.2004.1432277