Title Architectural robotics : ecosystems of bits, bytes, and biology / Keith Evan Green

Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016] ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 264 pages) : illustrations Contents Prologue : Scenes from a marriage -- Of metaphors, stories, and forms -- I. Reconfigurable : Spaces of many functions -- In awe of the new workflow -- The reconfigurable environment -- II. Distributed : Living rooms -- The art of home+ -- The distributed environment -- III. Transfigurable : Portals to elsewhere -- A LIT ROOM for the persistence of print -- The transfigurable environment -- Epilogue : Ecosystems of bits, bytes, and biology Summary "The relationship of humans to computers can no longer be represented as one person in a chair and one computer on a desk. Today computing finds its way into our pockets, our cars, our appliances; it is ubiquitous -- an inescapable part of our everyday lives. Computing is even expanding beyond our devices; sensors, microcontrollers, and actuators are increasingly embedded into the built environment. In Architectural Robotics, Keith Evan Green looks toward the next frontier in computing: interactive, partly intelligent, meticulously designed physical environments. Green examines how these 'architectural robotic' systems will support and augment us at work, school, and home, as we roam, interconnect, and age. Green tells the stories of three projects from his research lab that exemplify the reconfigurable, distributed, and transfigurable environments of architectural robotics. The Animated Work Environment is a robotic work environment of shape-shifting physical space that responds dynamically to the working life of the people within it; home+ is a suite of networked, distributed 'robotic furnishings' integrated into existing domestic and healthcare environments; and LIT ROOM offers a simulated environment in which the physical space of a room merges with the imaginary space of a book, becoming 'a portal to elsewhere.' How far beyond workstations, furniture, and rooms can the environments of architectural robotics stretch? Green imagines scaled-up neighborhoods, villages, and metropolises composed of physical bits, digital bytes, living things, and their hybrids. Not global but local, architectural robotics grounds computing in a capacious cyber-physical home"--Provided by publisher Analysis Aging Architecture Art Assistive technology Bandwidth Bibliographies Biology Bit rate Bladder Buildings Collaboration Computer architecture Computer displays Computers Cyber-physical systems Cybernetics Ecology Ecosystems Employment Films Floors Green products Hospitals Human computer interaction Human factors Immune system Indexes Internet Joining processes Kinematics Libraries Lighting Man machine systems Media Mobile communication Monitoring Moon Network topology Object recognition Oceans Optical fiber networks Portals Presses Psychology Quality of service Real-time systems Rehabilitation robotics Robot sensing systems Robots Scalability Sensors Shape Sociology Statistics Subspace constraints Sun Topology Transforms Ubiquitous computing Urban areas Vegetation Virtualization Visual perception Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-247) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Architecture and technology. Architecture -- Human factors. Buildings -- Environmental engineering. Cooperating objects (Computer systems) Intelligent buildings. Robotics -- Human factors. Smart materials in architecture. intelligent buildings. ARCHITECTURE -- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation. ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments. ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice. ARCHITECTURE -- Reference. Architecture and technology Architecture -- Human factors Buildings -- Environmental engineering Cooperating objects (Computer systems) Intelligent buildings Robotics -- Human factors Smart materials in architecture Form Electronic book Author MIT Press, publisher ISBN 9780262334211 0262334216

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