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

这项教师早期职业发展（Career）计划的目的是提高人们对人类与建筑互动对能源使用影响的认识，并探索智能、协作和个性化的方法，将建筑环境与用户联系起来，提高能源效率和意识。基于高分辨率的建筑和人类相关数据，将开发人类与建筑互动的类型、特征和模式分类。人类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包含多种模拟和建模技术的模拟环境进行定量描述。这项研究将建立在建筑成员和他们的用户之间的异质团队合作的概念上，通过使用代表这些建筑系统和他们的用户并与之交互的计算机代理。将采用一个能够学习用户偏好以实现自动化的模型。通过人体实验，我们将评估一系列不同的沟通策略和风格，以解决影响能源和舒适度的行动，并增加人类与建筑环境之间的信任。如果成功，该研究将促进对人与建筑相互作用对能源影响的理解，并将建筑环境转变为适应用户节能偏好的专注和自我学习实体。与用户有关的资料将纳入建筑作业，从而能够主动满足用户的需要。人与建筑相互作用的知识将支持工程设计和管理活动，并促进建筑环境作为生态系统的演变。为了提高公众参与度，将组织能源相关研讨会，让家长、教师和K-12学生共同参与工程项目。高中女生将开发与节能相关的计算机应用，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、课程和测试平台。

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.