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The field of human building interaction for convergent research and innovation for intelligent built environments

Journal Article · · Scientific Reports
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  1. Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
  2. Texas A & M Univ., College Station, TX (United States)
  3. Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA (United States)
  4. Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
  5. Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI (United States)
  6. National Univ. of Singapore (Singapore)
  7. Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States)
  8. Singapore ETH Centre (Singapore)
  9. Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)
  10. Trax.Co, Toronto (Canada)
  11. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  12. Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA (United States)
  13. Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE (United States)
  14. Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (United States)
  15. Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa (Israel)
  16. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)
  17. Delos Labs, New York, NY (United States)
Human-Building Interaction (HBI) is a convergent field that represents the growing complexities of the dynamic interplay between human experience and intelligence within built environments. This paper provides core definitions, research dimensions, and an overall vision for the future of HBI as developed through consensus among 25 interdisciplinary experts in a series of facilitated workshops. Three primary areas contribute to and require attention in HBI research: humans (human experiences, performance, and well-being), buildings (building design and operations), and technologies (sensing, inference, and awareness). Three critical interdisciplinary research domains intersect these areas: control systems and decision making, trust and collaboration, and modeling and simulation. Finally, at the core, it is vital for HBI research to center on and support equity, privacy, and sustainability. Compelling research questions are posed for each primary area, research domain, and core principle. State-of-the-art methods used in HBI studies are discussed, and examples of original research are offered to illustrate opportunities for the advancement of HBI research.
Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Building Technologies Office
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231; EE0007682
OSTI ID:
1983918
Journal Information:
Scientific Reports, Journal Name: Scientific Reports Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 12; ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher:
Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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