"No powers, man!": A Student Perspective on Designing University Smart Building Interactions

Finnigan, Samantha Mitchell; Clear, Adrian K.

doi:10.1145/3313831.3376174

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“…This highlights the critical need for a holistic approach that involves building occupants in data-driven decision-making processes. It is imperative to bridge the gap between technological advancements, expert insights, and the diverse needs of building occupants for a harmonized and energy-efficient built environment [12].…”

Section: Challenges and Opportunities In Integrating Building Occupan...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Occupant-Centric Digital Twin: A Case Study on Occupant Engagement in Thermal Comfort Decision-Making

Saadatifar,

Sawyer,

Byrne

2024

Architecture

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In open and shared workplaces, like co-working spaces or educational studios, thermal preferences vary widely among occupants. With the rise of flexible organizational workplace strategies, the challenge lies in balancing optimum, efficient temperature setpoints with maintaining occupants’ comfort. A potential solution involves a deeper understanding of variations in indoor climate and building occupants’ decision-making and preferences. This paper explores how an Occupant-Centric Digital Twin (OCDT) might address this by mapping indoor microclimates through a grid of IoT temperature sensors in real time. A large-screen display is utilized to present and visualize these data in an open workplace. The goal is to enhance awareness and provide agency for occupants to identify zones that align with their individual thermal preferences. A mixed-method occupant study (N = 27) was conducted to validate the approach. Exposure to the OCDT display resulted in higher thermal satisfaction among participants (p-value = 1.269 × 10−5, 0.05 significance level). The novelty of OCDT lies in extending the use of digital twin technology from facility managers to occupants, by granting them the agency to address comfort issues even in buildings where they lack direct control over the thermostat. This approach paves the way for a future where occupants in open workspaces can make informed decisions about where to work and how to achieve thermal comfort in those choices.

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Section: Challenges and Opportunities In Integrating Building Occupan...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Occupant-Centric Digital Twin: A Case Study on Occupant Engagement in Thermal Comfort Decision-Making

Saadatifar,

Sawyer,

Byrne

2024

Architecture

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“…These works [60,113,117,169] emphasised that granting full agency and autonomy might leave people to pose risks to their own physical or digital safety, and suggest a need to balance these values. Finally, 20 papers suggested that user autonomy and agency contribute to desirable practical outcomes in tasks and activities [e.g., 33,41,120,148], such as increased feelings of responsibility [35], or trust within organisations [177].…”

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How does HCI Understand Human Autonomy and Agency?

Bennett,

Metatla,

Roudaut

et al. 2023

Preprint

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Human agency and autonomy have always been fundamental concepts in HCI. New developments, including ubiquitous AI and the growing integration of technologies into our lives, make these issues ever pressing, as technologies increase their ability to influence our behaviours and values. However, in HCI understandings of autonomy and agency remain ambiguous. Both concepts are used to describe a wide range of phenomena pertaining to sense-of-control, material independence, and identity. It is unclear to what degree these understandings are compatible, and how they support the development of research programs and practical interventions. We address this by reviewing 30 years of HCI research on autonomy and agency to identify current understandings, open issues, and future directions. From this analysis, we identify ethical issues, and outline key themes to guide future work. We also articulate avenues for advancing clarity and specificity around these concepts, and for coordinating integrative work across different HCI communities. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → HCI theory, concepts and models.

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“…Hence, recent studies have focused on this interaction to improve or facilitate the lives of smart building occupants [17]. In particular, Finnigan and Clear have analyzed how student occupants experienced spaces, how they evaluate them, and how building management might improve considering the occupants [18]. Their case study was based on a smart university building in the UK equipped with a BMS.…”

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Designing Interfaces to Display Sensor Data: A Case Study in the Human-Building Interaction Field Targeting a University Community

Ceccarini

Mirri

Prandi

2022

Sensors

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The increase of smart buildings with Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Building Management Systems (BMS) has created a large amount of data, including those coming from sensors. These data are intended for monitoring the building conditions by authorized personnel, not being available to all building occupants. In this paper, we evaluate, from a qualitative point of view, if a user interface designed for a specific community can increase occupants’ context-awareness about environmental issues within a building, supporting them to make more informed decisions that best suit their needs. We designed a user interface addressed to the student community of a smart campus, adopting an Iterative Design Cycle methodology, and engaged 48 students by means of structured interviews with the aim of collecting their feedback and conducting a qualitative analysis. The results obtained show the interest of this community in having access to information about the environmental data within smart campus buildings. For example, students were more interested in data about temperature and brightness, rather than humidity. As a further result of this study, we have extrapolated a series of design recommendations to support the creation of map-based user interfaces that we found to be effective in such contexts.

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"No powers, man!": A Student Perspective on Designing University Smart Building Interactions

Cited by 16 publications

References 60 publications

Occupant-Centric Digital Twin: A Case Study on Occupant Engagement in Thermal Comfort Decision-Making

Occupant-Centric Digital Twin: A Case Study on Occupant Engagement in Thermal Comfort Decision-Making

How does HCI Understand Human Autonomy and Agency?

Designing Interfaces to Display Sensor Data: A Case Study in the Human-Building Interaction Field Targeting a University Community

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