Interactive spatial analytics for human-aware building design

Usman, Muhammad; Schaumann, Davide; Haworth, Brandon; Berseth, Glen; Kapadia, Mubbasir; Faloutsos, Petros

doi:10.1145/3274247.3274503

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“…Regarding indoor environments, related work often focuses on building design for human-aware environments by creating a gamified process of crowd simulation, path traces, and heatmaps of evacuation dynamics [31,32]. These works are examples of analysis tools to assist architects and designers in generating and analyzing human-aware design options.…”

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confidence: 99%

A Gamification-Based Approach on Indoor Wayfinding Research

Leeuw

Maeyer

Cock

2020

IJGI

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Indoor environments can be very complex. Due to the challenges in these environments in combination with the absence of mobile wayfinding aids, a great need exists for innovative research on indoor wayfinding. In this explorative study, a game was developed in Unity to investigate whether the concept of gamification could be used in studies on indoor wayfinding so as to provide useful information regarding the link between wayfinding performance, personal characteristics, and building layout. Results show a significant difference between gamers and non-gamers as the complexity of the player movement has an important impact on the navigation velocity in the game. However, further analysis reveals that the architectural layout also has an impact on the navigation velocity and that wrong turns in the game are influenced by the landmarks at the decision points: navigating at deeper decision points in convex spaces is slower and landmarks of the categories pictograms and infrastructural were more effective in this particular building. Therefore, this explorative study, which provides an approach for the use of gamification in indoor wayfinding research, has shown that serious games could be successfully used as a medium for data acquisition related to indoor wayfinding in a virtual environment.

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Section: Relevant Workmentioning

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A Gamification-Based Approach on Indoor Wayfinding Research

Leeuw

Maeyer

Cock

2020

IJGI

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“…Likewise, the validity of crowd behaviors has been studied [2], showing varying levels of accuracy to real-world trials. While there is no single simulator that perfectly matches all conditions, the estimation of crowd behavior in simulation is well accepted for important decisions such as egress [4], wayfinding [15], and to analyze building environments for human occupancies in general [33]. It has also been used with numerous commercial software products in existence (e.g., mass motion [25], and anylogic [1]).…”

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Optimizing Indoor Navigation Policies For Spatial Distancing

Zhang¹,

Schwartz²,

Usman³

et al. 2022

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The ability for occupants to shop, relax, or work is facilitated by not only the objects in the space but the arrangement and movement patterns allowed. In this regard, we consider one type of affordance in a space; the ability to maintain distance between occupants while navigating and interacting with the environment. In this paper, we focus on the modification of policies that can lead to movement patterns and directional guidance of occupants, which are represented as agents in a 3D simulation engine. Considering an environment can dictate -or even mandate -the directional movement of the occupants, we demonstrate an optimization method that improves a spatial distancing metric by modifying the navigation graph. To achieve this, we introduce a measure of spatial distancing of agents as a function of agent density (i.e., occupancy). Our optimization framework utilizes such metrics as the target function, using a hybrid approach of combining genetic algorithm and simulated annealing. We show that within our framework, the simulation-optimization process can help to improve spatial distancing between agents by optimizing the navigation policies for a given indoor environment.

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“…16 Interactive computational tools are developed to afford both static and dynamic crowd-aware analytics in built-environments. 17 In the area of parametric building design, a node-based framework was designed for the joint modelling of the built-environment, occupants'…”

Section: Crowd-aware Environment Analysis and Designmentioning

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Simulation‐as‐a‐Service: Analyzing Crowd Movements in Virtual Environments

Usman

Haworth

Faloutsos

et al. 2021

Computer Animation & Virtual

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At present, environment designers mostly use their intuition and experience to predictively account for how environments might support dynamic activity. The majority of Computer-Aided Design tools only provide a static representation of space which potentially ignores the impact that an environment layout produces on its occupants and their movements. To address this, computational techniques such as crowd simulation have been developed. With few exceptions, crowd simulation frameworks are often decoupled from environment modeling tools. They usually require specific hardware/software infrastructures and expertise to be used, hindering the designers' abilities to seamlessly simulate, analyze, and incorporate movement-centric dynamics into their design workflows. To bridge this disconnect, we devise a cross-browser service-based simulation analytics platform to analyze environment layouts with respect to occupancy and activity. Our platform allows users to access simulation services by uploading three-dimensional environment models in numerous common formats, devise targeted simulation scenarios, run simulations, and instantly generate crowd-based analytics for their designs. We conducted a case study to showcase cross-domain applicability of our service-based platform, and a user study to evaluate the usability of this approach.

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Interactive spatial analytics for human-aware building design

Cited by 11 publications

References 49 publications

A Gamification-Based Approach on Indoor Wayfinding Research

A Gamification-Based Approach on Indoor Wayfinding Research

Optimizing Indoor Navigation Policies For Spatial Distancing

Simulation‐as‐a‐Service: Analyzing Crowd Movements in Virtual Environments

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