Workshop On Embodied Human-Building Interactions; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; April 2020

随着我们在智能家居、智能办公室或其他智能基础设施中生活和工作，我们与物理环境的日常互动正变得越来越“智能”。智能家具、智能家电和智能建材也越来越多地围绕着我们。该奖项将支持一个跨学科研讨会和相关活动，这些活动将开始塑造人类与建筑相互作用（HBI）的新领域，该领域研究人类与建筑智能之间的动态物理相互作用。相关活动包括一个创新的、有教育意义的“黑客马拉松”活动，该活动将吸引不同群体的学生参与HBI原型系统的开发。该项目通过在智能建筑和智能物体的背景下促进与动态人机交互相关的科学进步，为国家利益服务。拟议中的HBI领域有望改变人们与智能建筑技术互动和采用的方式，为下一代认知建筑的发展提供信息，这些建筑将为人类用户带来无数好处，包括提高生产力、认知、便利、舒适、健康和能源使用——所有这些都对社会福祉至关重要。本次研讨会将汇集来自学术机构和工业界的工程师、建筑师、交互设计师、计算机科学家、认知和社会科学家，以促进人与建筑交互（HBI）领域的发展。研讨会的一个目标是为开发建筑环境中人类行为的工作模型奠定基础，这些模型可以被纳入建筑智能系统，以优化人类与建筑的互动。另一个目标是建立一个框架，通过弥合目前研究这个问题不同部分的研究人员之间的鸿沟，来说明智能建筑如何有利于塑造未来的工作。潜在的讨论主题包括：人与建筑协作；HBI与信任；认知建筑的设计、工程与运营虚拟感知与刻意感知；安全和隐私挑战。一个教育目标是举办为期两天的黑客马拉松，学生团队将设计原型HBI系统。最终目标是在HBI白皮书中发布研讨会和黑客马拉松的成果。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Everyday interactions with our physical environment are increasingly becoming "smarter", as we live and work in smart homes, smart offices, or other smart infrastructure. We are also increasingly surrounded by smart furniture, smart appliances and smart building materials. This award will support an interdisciplinary workshop and related activities that will begin to shape the new field of Human-Building Interaction (HBI), which studies the dynamic physical interplay between embodied human and building intelligences. Related activities include an innovative, educational "hack-a-thon" event that will engage a diverse cohort of students in the development of prototype HBI systems. The project serves the national interest by promoting scientific progress related to dynamic human/machine interactions within the context of intelligent buildings and the smart objects that will populate them. The proposed HBI field promises to change the way people interact with and adopt smart building technology by informing the development of the next generation of cognitive buildings that will realize a myriad of benefits for human users, including improved productivity, cognition, convenience, comfort, health and energy use - all of which are essential to societal well-being.This workshop will bring together engineers, architects, interaction designers, computer scientists, cognitive and social scientists from academic institutions and from industry to catalyze growth in the field of Human-Building Interaction (HBI). A goal of the workshop is to set the groundwork for developing working models of human behavior in built environments, models that can be incorporated into building intelligence systems to optimize human-building interactions. Another goal is to set a framework for how intelligent buildings might beneficially shape the future of work, by bridging gaps that currently divide current communities of researchers working on separate parts of the problem. Potential discussion themes include: Human-Building Collaboration; HBI and Trust; Design, Engineering and Operation of Cognitive Buildings; Virtual and Deliberate Sensing; and Security and Privacy Challenges. An educational goal is to host a two-day hack-a-thon where teams of students will design prototype HBI systems. A final objective is to publish output from the workshop and hack-a-thon in a HBI white paper.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.