CAREER: A Human-Building Interaction Framework for Responsive and Adaptive Built Environments

这项学院早期职业发展(Career)计划赠款的目的是增进对人与建筑互动对能源使用影响的知识，并探索将建筑环境与其用户连接起来的智能、协作和个性化的方法，以提高能源效率和意识。将根据高分辨率建筑和与人类相关的数据，开发人与建筑相互作用的类型、特征和模式的分类。人与建筑的相互作用对能源使用和舒适度的影响将使用一个结合了多种模拟和建模技术的模拟环境进行定量描述。这项研究将通过使用代表这些建筑系统及其用户并与其互动的计算机代理，建立建筑成员及其用户之间不同类型的团队合作的概念。将采用一种能够学习用户对自动化的偏好的模型。将通过人体实验评估一套不同的沟通策略和风格，这些实验旨在解决影响能源和舒适性的行为，并增加人与建筑环境之间的信任。如果成功，这项研究将推进对人与建筑互动对能源影响的理解，并将建筑环境转变为专注和自我学习的实体，以适应用户的节能偏好。与用户有关的信息将纳入建筑业务，从而能够主动适应用户的需要。人与建筑相互作用的知识将支持工程设计和管理活动，并促进建成环境作为生态系统的演变。为了增加公众参与，将组织与能源有关的研讨会，让家长、教师和K-12学生聚集在一起，亲手开展工程项目。高中女生将开发与节能相关的计算机应用程序，吸引她们进入工程和技术领域。这项工作将吸引代表性不足的学生，并为研究和教育开发新的材料、模块、课程和试验台。

The purpose of this Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program grant is to advance knowledge about the impact of human-building interactions on energy use, and to explore intelligent, collaborative, and personalized approaches that connect built environments with their users to increase energy efficiency and awareness. Taxonomies of types, features, and patterns of human-building interactions will be developed, based on high-resolution building and human related data. The impact of human-building interactions on energy use and comfort will be quantitatively described using a simulation environment that incorporates multiple simulations and modeling technologies. The research will build on the concept of heterogeneous teamwork between building members and their users, through the use of computer agents that represent and interact with these building systems and their users. A model, capable of learning user preferences for automation, will be employed. A diverse set of communication strategies and styles will be evaluated through human subject experiments that address actions influencing energy and comfort, and increase the trust between humans and the built environment.If successful, the research will advance the understanding about the impact of human-building interactions on energy, and transform built environments into attentive and self-learning entities that adapt to user preferences of energy conservation. User-related information will be incorporated into building operations thus allowing for proactive accommodation of user needs. Knowledge of human-building interactions will support engineering design and management activities, and foster the evolution of built environments as eco-systems. To increase public engagement, energy related workshops will be organized bringing together parents, teachers and K-12 students to build hands on engineering projects. High school female students will develop computer applications related to energy conservation, attracting them to engineering and technology fields. The work will engage underrepresented students and develop new materials, modules, courses, test beds for research and education.