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[Kak-tos]: A tool for optimizing conceptual mass design and orientation for rain water harvesting facades
By Ashley Damiano, Chris Beorkrem, and Jefferson Ellinger- Presented at the Design Modeling Symposium- Paris 2017 Link to full paper The tool outlined here works by importing the weather data for a given location from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (in our initial studies we used a five-year window). This data is first simplified […]
Invisible People; An Urban Responsive Digital Interface
By Noushin Radnia, Spring 2017 StudioLab INVISIBLE PEOPLE is a social awareness project that gives everyone an ability to envision and engage with the community they live, in order to empower the larger society around them. An access to an open resource for communication. The story is the most important unit of social change and […]
Urban Activity Explorer, a Visual analytic interface for Social Media
Data and Design: Using Knowledge Generation/Visual Analytic Paradigms to Understand Mobile Social Media in Urban Design As smart phones have become part of everyday life, communication technology and its role in shaping cities and social life became an essential topical area in architecture and urban design. The enormous volume of data being generated (estimated to […]
“User Agreement” – Five movements in a prepared music field
“User Agreement” for soprano and chamber ensemblefive movements in a prepared music field http://ejsauda.wixsite.com/prepared-music-field The College of Arts + Architecture at UNC Charlotte is proud to announce an original composition by composer Ian Dicke for performances in a prepared music field as part of an on-going collaboration between Scott Christian of Fresh Ink and the Digital Arts […]
Augmented Reality- HoloLens
By Eric Sauda and Alireza Karduni Research has been conducted on augmented reality (AR) for several decades. Early work by Azuma helped defined the field [1], and more recent research by Bolter and Barfield has investigated strategies for engaging users[2, 3]. Recent advances in head mounted hardware and software by Microsoft and Google have poised […]
VAIRoma- Visual Interface for Spatial/ Temporal analysis of Big Data
Eric Sauda, Wenwen Dou, Isaac Cho, Bill Ribarsky At UNC Charlotte, the Digital Arts Center in the College of Arts + Architecture, and the Charlotte Visualization Center in the College of Computing and Informatics have created a prototype of a space, time and topic based visual analytics system, VAiRoma, (Visual Analytic interface for Roma) that […]
VALSE- Computer vision tool for large scale occupant evaluation.
Recent advances in computer vision are bringing automated analysis of human motion within reach. We have developed the SENSING Toolkit, a framework for collecting and storing long-term, large-scale human motion. Our framework is designed to use a computer vision system, including a network of cameras installed in large indoor spaces, such as building lobbies or healthcare […]