5 papers
Animated Public Furniture as an Interaction Mediator: Engaging Passersby In-the-Wild with Robotic Benches
Xinyan Yu, Marius Hoggenmueller, Xin Lu +4
Urban HCI investigates how digital technologies shape human behaviour within the social, spatial, temporal dynamics of public space. Meanwhile, robotic furniture research demonstra…
An HCI Perspective on Sustainable GenAI Integration in Architectural Design Education
Alex Binh Vinh Duc Nguyen
Generative AI (genAI) is increasingly influencing architectural design practice and is expected to affect, or even transform, the profession, even though its benefits and costs rem…
Architectural HRI: Towards a Robotic Paradigm Shift in Human-Building Interaction
Alex Binh Vinh Duc Nguyen
Recent advances in sensing, communication, interfaces, control, and robotics are expanding Human-Building Interaction (HBI) beyond adaptive building services and facades toward the…
Manifesting Architectural Subspaces with Two Mobile Robotic Partitions to Facilitate Spontaneous Office Meetings
Ozan Balci, Stien Poncelet, Alex Binh Vinh Duc Nguyen +1
Although intended to foster spontaneous interactions among workers, a typical open-plan office layout cannot mitigate visual, acoustic, or privacy-related distractions that origina…
Eliciting Understandable Architectonic Gestures for Robotic Furniture through Co-Design Improvisation
Alex Binh Vinh Duc Nguyen, Jan Leusmann, Sven Mayer +1
The vision of adaptive architecture proposes that robotic technologies could enable interior spaces to physically transform in a bidirectional interaction with occupants. Yet, it i…