Architectural Robotics - An International Workshop

这笔资金用于支持为期一天的由学术界和工业界研究人员以及研究生组成的国际研讨会，该研讨会将与第11届泛在计算国际会议(UbiComp 2009)一起举行，该会议将于2009年9月30日至10月3日在佛罗里达州奥兰多举行，由计算机械协会(ACM)赞助。UbiComp是推动无处不在计算系统的设计、开发、部署、评估和理解的最新研究成果的主要渠道。UbiComp是一个跨学科的研究和开发领域，它利用和集成普及、无线、嵌入式、可穿戴和/或移动技术，以弥合数字世界和物理世界之间的差距。欲了解更多有关这次会议的信息，请访问http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2009.。这是美国第一个跨学科研讨会，将汇集来自不同科学领域、来自工程学和建筑学的研究人员，以确定新兴建筑机器人领域的机遇和挑战，也就是嵌入在建筑环境中的机器人技术。纵观历史，新技术的出现重塑了我们的建筑环境，从而重塑了社会。研讨会参与者将分享他们的研究和教学，并探讨与设计复杂的工程系统相关的问题，以响应人类的需求和愿望。他们将努力解决这样的问题：需要培养哪些新的设计词汇，定义哪些自我重新配置的理论，以便为复杂的算法奠定基础，这些算法将感知和推断建筑的占有率、活动和外部条件，从而引发改善生活、改善现有场所和支持人类互动的变化？以及：我们如何教育来自不同学术背景的学生在团队中进行富有成效的协作，以及在建筑机器人的设计和实施中，哪些工具可以进一步教授和学习？私人投资促进机构预计，研讨会将成为未来知识交流、合作和增长的催化剂，从而启动一个可行的新研究社区。为此，活动成果将包括发表一系列立场文件和参考文献(包括学术论文)，以及与这一新研究领域有关的网站和其他媒体。广泛的影响：机器人技术在整个建筑环境中的逐步嵌入将对社会产生广泛的影响，因为这些技术支持并在某些情况下增加日常工作、学校、娱乐和休闲。早期的应用可能是医疗保健、支持肢体残疾人、增强希望就地老龄化的日益增长的人口的能力，以及响应不断变化的需求、占用较少楼面空间和降低能源成本的智能工作空间。研讨会中的教育活动将探索教授多学科课程的方法，以弥合将工程、以人为中心的设计和建筑及其相关设计和艺术实践分开的学术文化差距。私人投资机构将尽一切努力确保参与者的多样性，包括科学和工程领域代表性不足的群体的代表，如少数群体、妇女和残疾人。

This is funding to support a one-day international workshop of researchers from academia and industry, along with graduate students, to be held in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2009), which will take place September 30-October 3, 2009, in Orlando, Florida, and which is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Ubicomp is the premier outlet for novel research contributions that advance the state of the art in the design, development, deployment, evaluation and understanding of ubiquitous computing systems. Ubicomp is an interdisciplinary field of research and development that utilizes and integrates pervasive, wireless, embedded, wearable and/or mobile technologies to bridge the gaps between the digital and physical worlds. More information about the conference is available online at http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2009. This interdisciplinary workshop, the first of its kind in the United States, will bring together researchers from a variety of scientific domains, from engineering, and from architecture, to identify opportunities and challenges in the emerging field of architectural robotics, that is to say robotics technologies embedded in the built environment. Throughout history the emergence of new technologies has reshaped our built environment and so, society. Workshop participants, about 20 of them supported under this award, will share their research and teaching, and explore issues relating to the design of complex engineered systems that respond to human needs and wants. They will wrestle with questions such as: What new vocabularies of design need to be cultivated, and what theories of self-reconfigurability defined, in order to lay the foundation for sophisticated algorithms that will sense and infer the occupancy, activities, and external conditions of a building so as to trigger change that improves life, enhances existing places, and supports human interaction? And: How can we educate students from different academic backgrounds to collaborate productively in teams, and what tools could further teaching and learning in the design and implementation of architectural robotics? The PIs expect the workshop to launch a viable new research community, by serving as a catalyst for future knowledge exchange, collaboration and growth. To these ends, event outcomes will include publication of a collection of position papers and set of references (including academic papers), as well as Web sites and other media that pertain to this new field of research.Broader Impacts: The gradual embedding of robotics throughout the built environment will have a broad impact on society as these technologies support and, in some cases, augment everyday work, school, entertainment, and leisure. Early applications will likely be in health care, in support for persons with physical disabilities, in the empowerment of a growing populating wishing to age in place, and in intelligent work spaces that are responsive to changing needs, that consume less floor space, and that reduce energy costs. The educational activities in the workshop will explore methods of teaching multidisciplinary classes that bridge the academic cultural gaps that separate engineering, human-centered design, and architecture and its allied design and art practices. The PIs will make every effort to ensure a diverse group of participants including representatives of underrepresented groups in science and engineering such as minorities, women, and persons with disabilities.