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Introducing New Voices in Design Research, Fall 2019

2019-11-08 , Oh, HyunJoo , Raymond, Elora , Roark, Ryan

New faculty members in the College of Design share their research.

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Ethics & Values for Reflective Urban Automation

2019-01-24 , Borenstein, Jason , Leigh, Nancy Greene , Phillips, Carolyn , Shelden, Dennis R.

Urban automation’s potential to create disruptive technologies that change cities’ future development is already in evidence, but there is much more to come. Urban automation refers to artificial intelligence, robotics, drones, and sensors are that being deployed in the built environment to support more efficient urban living and improved quality of life. While many benefits can be derived from urban automation, its various forms raise issues of access, privacy, safety, trust, control, and automated discrimination, that need to be addressed in its design and deployment. The panelists of this College of Design Research Forum will explore ethical principles and values from a range of perspectives that include, autonomous vehicles, building AI and sensors, urban supply chain logistics, and disability services. The panelists of this College of Design Research Forum will explore ethical principles and values from a range of perspectives that include, autonomous vehicles, building AI and sensors, urban supply chain logistics, and disability services.

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The Digital Twin: Intelligent and Responsive Environments

2018-01-25 , Guhathakurta, Subhro , Pishdad-Bozorgi, Pardis , Sanford, Jon , Shelden, Dennis R. , Yang, Perry Pei-Ju

Smart cities, buildings, homes, and infrastructure are all emerging as critical themes for the 21st-century built environment. These developments all have in common the integration of distributed sensors, coupled with real-time virtual simulation, and closed loop digital interventions into the built environment. College of Design faculty are working across widely varying scales from the city to the chip to conceive of and realize the next generation of digitally mediated built environments. This forum will present College research spanning from smart cities to smart buildings, virtual and augmented reality, and the internet of things. It will be followed by an open forum to explore opportunities for further collaboration by faculty and students in this wide area of emerging technology.

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An Appraisal of California Codes’ Impact on Residential Electricity Consumption

2017-03-30 , Brown, Jason

In 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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Decision Analytics in Design and Construction

2019-09-26 , Aflatoony, Leila , Ashuri, Baabak , Bartlett, Chris M. , Rakha, Tarek

Decision analytics stands to have a profound impact on how design and construction disciplines are woven together to solve today's most complex problems. Rigorous data collection and analysis are core to design and construction decision making. The nature of analysis is to study complexity and deduce a reasonable summary that will then inform design and construction decisions. Decision analytics is distinguished from analysis by the emphasis on causality and prediction. The proliferation of computing power and access to rich data sets has driven innovation in the analytics tools market, lowering the barrier for entry to powerful analytics tools for designers and constructors. This means that decision-makers can more accurately identify causality and leverage the predictive power of analytics to inform design and construction decisions that anticipate and solve for problems much further into the future. Opportunities are growing to align decision analytics across multiple disciplines to minimize economic waste, maximize energy efficiencies, and enhance the lives of individuals and communities. An intuitive example of this opportunity lies in new building design and construction. Construction Analytics is a distinctive discipline, bridging the fields of building construction, civil and environmental engineering, economics, and operations research. Designers and decision-makers use descriptive analytics to identify indicators to cost overruns, diagnostic analytics to predict construction market resiliency after natural disasters, predictive analytics to identify future building trends, and prescriptive analytics to optimize resource allocation during construction projects. Building performance analytics explores various performance measures linked to building energy investigations, including measuring existing building performance through detailed audits to achieve substantial energy savings in deteriorating infrastructures, as well as simulating and visualizing new building and urban energy-flows to formulate informed design decisions empowered by data analytics for a sustainable and energy efficient future. In the example of new hospital construction, human-centered analytics can produce powerful insights and unlock empathy for the people (pediatric doctors, nurses, patients) who actively use the hospital space. Merging and visualizing several sources of quantitative and qualitative data draws out causality and enables predictive decision making aimed at improving the experience and performance of the people using the space.

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When the World Talks Back … Connecting People and Things

2018-09-27 , Budd, James G. , Posner, Noah K. , Romm, Stuart , Wang, Wei

Over the past 10 to 15 years the evolution of smart, sensor-based products and systems has reshaped the way we interact with each other and the world around us. This Research Forum will compare a snapshot from the past with new initiatives today that connect us with the products around us, the buildings we inhabit, and the cars we drive along with speculation of where we might be headed tomorrow.

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Collaborative Research on Health

2017-11-09 , Ball, Roger , Botchwey, Nisha , Sanford, Jon , Zimring, Craig

Research 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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Introducing New Voices in Design Research

2019-03-14 , Leslie, Grace , Marks, Lisa , Rakha, Tarek

The forums are an opportunity for us to share our design- and technology-focused research. This academic year we have several new faculty members producing compelling work. We have invited some of them to introduce their research to the larger college. The faculty participating in the forum represent architecture, industrial design, and music.

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Planning Energy-Efficient Buildings and Cities

2018-03-08 , Augenbroe, Godfried , Guhathakurta, Subhro , Mallen, Evan , Yang, Perry Pei-Ju

Urban built form plays a crucial role in energy consumption, hence planning energy-efficient cities requires thoughtful design at multiple scales -- from buildings, to neighborhoods, to cities.

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Robots and Drones

2017-09-28 , Gentry, T. Russell , Leigh, Nancey Greene , Swarts, Matthew E. , Weinberg, Gil