Architectural robotics : ecosystems of bits, bytes, and biology

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The work Architectural robotics : ecosystems of bits, bytes, and biology represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Architectural robotics : ecosystems of bits, bytes, and biology

Title remainder

ecosystems of bits, bytes, and biology

Statement of responsibility

Keith Evan Green

Creator

• Green, Keith Evan

Contributor

• M.I.T. Press

Author

• Green, Keith Evan

Publisher

• M.I.T. Press

Subject

• Architecture -- Human factors
• Architecture and technology
• Art
• Assistive technology
• Bandwidth
• Bibliographies
• Biology
• Bit rate
• Bladder
• Buildings
• Buildings -- Environmental engineering
• Collaboration
• Computer architecture
• Computer displays
• Computers
• Cooperating objects (Computer systems)
• Cyber-physical systems
• Cybernetics
• Ecology
• Ecosystems
• Employment
• Films
• Floors
• Green products
• Hospitals
• Human computer interaction
• Human factors
• Immune system
• Indexes
• Intelligent buildings
• Internet
• Joining processes
• Kinematics
• Libraries
• Lighting
• Man machine systems
• Media
• Mobile communication
• Monitoring
• Moon
• Network topology
• Object recognition
• Oceans
• Optical fiber networks
• Portals
• Presses
• Psychology
• Quality of service
• Real-time systems
• Rehabilitation robotics
• Robot sensing systems
• Robotics -- Human factors
• Robots
• Scalability
• Sensors
• Shape
• Smart materials in architecture
• Sociology
• Statistics
• Subspace constraints
• Sun
• Topology
• Aging
• Ubiquitous computing
• Urban areas
• Vegetation
• Virtualization
• Visual perception
• Transforms
• Architecture

Language

eng

Summary

"The relationship of humans to computers can no longer be represented as one person in a chair and one computer on a desk. Today computing finds its way into our pockets, our cars, our appliances; it is ubiquitous -- an inescapable part of our everyday lives. Computing is even expanding beyond our devices; sensors, microcontrollers, and actuators are increasingly embedded into the built environment. In Architectural Robotics, Keith Evan Green looks toward the next frontier in computing: interactive, partly intelligent, meticulously designed physical environments. Green examines how these 'architectural robotic' systems will support and augment us at work, school, and home, as we roam, interconnect, and age. Green tells the stories of three projects from his research lab that exemplify the reconfigurable, distributed, and transfigurable environments of architectural robotics. The Animated Work Environment is a robotic work environment of shape-shifting physical space that responds dynamically to the working life of the people within it; home+ is a suite of networked, distributed 'robotic furnishings' integrated into existing domestic and healthcare environments; and LIT ROOM offers a simulated environment in which the physical space of a room merges with the imaginary space of a book, becoming 'a portal to elsewhere.' How far beyond workstations, furniture, and rooms can the environments of architectural robotics stretch? Green imagines scaled-up neighborhoods, villages, and metropolises composed of physical bits, digital bytes, living things, and their hybrids. Not global but local, architectural robotics grounds computing in a capacious cyber-physical home"--Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

CAUOI

Dewey number

720/.47

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

NA2543.T43

LC item number

G69 2016eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography