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ItemCollaborative Research on Health(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-11-09) Ball, Roger ; Botchwey, Nisha ; Sanford, Jon ; Zimring, CraigResearch related to health is the largest segment of the College of Design’s research portfolio. This forum will describe several active programs of research related to health and design and examine the intersections among them for potential collaborations.
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ItemRobots and Drones(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-09-28) Gentry, T. Russell ; Leigh, Nancey Green ; Swarts, Matthew E. ; Weinberg, Gil
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ItemAn Appraisal of California Codes’ Impact on Residential Electricity Consumption(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-03-30) Brown, JasonIn his talk, he will consider whether California energy policies implemented in the mid1970s influenced residential electricity consumption. Many studies of these policies have been done over the years. These studies are reviewed and a model of the state’s residential electricity consumption is developed based on an early study supporting policy development. A hindcast using this model suggests a 6 percent reduction in residential electricity in the first 10 years of the policy over a modeled counterfactual scenario without policy. In addition, a more complete assessment of causality which accounts for uncontrolled, non-policy factors that can also lower electricity consumption suggests this policy had a 36% chance of being necessary and a 30% chance of being sufficient.
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ItemThe Runner or the Course? Capacity Endowments and Paradigm Alternations in the Domestic Tech Development of Brazil and Mexico(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2017-01-26) Fuentes, AlbertoThe talk will employ a comparison of the historical experience of four large-scale industries – the Mexican and Brazilian auto and oil industries – to evaluate some of the main factors shaping firm-level learning and acquisition of knowledge-based assets between the 1970s and the 2000s. It will underscore the central role of (a) initial capacity endowments, and (b) alternations in the hegemonic policy paradigms to account for variations in industry-level learning patterns.
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ItemNew Directions in Building Information(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-10-27) Shelden, Dennis R.
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ItemThrough the Eyes of the User: An Evidence-Based Approach for Evaluating Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Design(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-10-06) Denham, MeganThe built environment is critical to support the needs of NICU babies, their families, and caregivers. In this session, a novel approach to evaluating design based on the activities and needs of the users will be presented.
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ItemTechnology‑Assisted Music Education(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-09-01) Lerch, Alexander
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ItemAn Energy‐Aware, Agent‐Based Maintenance‐Scheduling Framework to Improve Occupant Satisfaction(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-03-31) Song, XinyiFacility management has become increasingly challenging due to complex building systems that generate more diverse and complex maintenance issues. Facility managers and staff must deal with many daily maintenance requests despite various limitations, such as limited budgets and staff, which can cause delay in responding to some maintenance requests. A scheduling framework is proposed in this research to assist in improving facility management efficiency. In practice, maintenance work is scheduled according to various priorities. For example, facility managers first consider the impact of each problem in terms of system failure and safety. In addition to those two factors, the framework considers both energy efficiency and occupant satisfaction. It first quantified occupant satisfaction with data from current building maintenance work. An empirical study on occupant satisfaction was done based on classical disconfirmation theory and referenced post‐occupancy evaluation (POE) research. A survey was designed to collect data to quantify occupant satisfaction. Based on the disconfirmation theory, an agent‐based model was then developed to prioritize maintenance work to achieve maximum occupant satisfaction. Subsequently, a building energy model was simulated in EnergyPlus to quantify the impact of different aspects of a faulty HVAC system on energy consumption. Finally, the framework was tested through simulation and the results showed that occupant satisfaction level and building energy efficiency were improved by 30 and 97%, respectively, when using the framework.
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ItemSustaining Sustainable Cities: Building Grassroot and Elite Support for Long-Term Urbanism(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-02-25) Elliot, MichaelChattanooga, Tennessee is considered to be amongst the most sustainable cities in the United States. Kent Portney’s research (Taking Sustainability Seriously) places the city in the top ten most seriously engaged in promoting sustainability. At the same time, Chattanooga is well known for its use of civic engagement and partnership-based economic development tools, often called the “Chattanooga Way,” to revitalize its downtown and waterfront. These two factors are not unrelated, as social capital and civic engagement are often cited as necessary ingredients of successful sustainability efforts. Research to date, however, has not explored this relationship effectively. Previous research linking civic capacity to sustainability has largely focused on the environmental aspects of sustainability. Of equal concern are the economic and equity aspects. In this light, sustainability in the city and region cannot depend solely on the concentrated redevelopment of the urban core, which constituted the initial focus of Chattanooga’s sustainability efforts. More recently, the City of Chattanooga has actively sought to expand the focus of its sustainability efforts both into the neighborhoods within the city and across the region. This presentation explores the link between civic engagement and sustainability, with a particular emphasis on the impact of civic engagement on moving cities beyond traditional sustainability goals (that emphasize environmental-economic values) to more holistic goals (that integrate equity concerns explicitly into the environmental-economic-equity balance). This work hypothesizes that capacity of cities to engage more holistic goals emerges out of the civic capacity developed from earlier efforts to promote civic engagement in sustainability efforts. The presentation explores the processes by which this growth in civic engagement occurs, its interaction with sustainability efforts, and the longer term implications for maintaining the social capital needed to promote sustainability.
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Item3D Body Scanning for Product Design(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2016-01-28) Ball, RogerThe human body has complex spatial relationships with consumer products. Products that fit the human body must fit well to deliver performance, comfort, and overall user safety. Yet, body shape and measurements vary significantly by gender, ethnicity and age. Traditional methods of acquiring measurements are time consuming, subject to human error and poorly integrated with current best practices in product design. Similarly, traditional prototyping methods using clay, wood and foam are time and labor intensive making them out of synch with the fast paced iterative process used when designing body fit products. In 2005 The Asian Ergonomic Lab (AEL) in the School of Design in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University began working with digital technologies to try and solve some of the many problems of fit, sizing and shape that have bedeviled design practice since the beginning. The Scan&Print method uses the technologies of 3D body scanning, CAD software and 3D printing to create body fitting products with improved fit within a reduced time. This method is now taught as a part of the undergraduate curriculum ID 4061 – Designing for the Human Body in the Industrial Design Dept at Georgia Tech where there is an emphasis on leveraging technology with design innovation. The Scan&Print method reduces development time, improves fit and creates new types of forms for body fitting products. The near future may see further applications where the whole process of scanning, designing and manufacturing customized products for human body becomes tightly integrated, intuitive and automated.