No. 25 (2023): Enabling Roles of Technology
Research and Experimentation

Enabling an augmented building experience by encouraging user engagement

Antonella Trombadore
Dipartimento di Architettura, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Bio
Debora Giorgi
Dipartimento di Architettura, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Gisella Calcagno
Dipartimento di Architettura, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Giacomo Pierucci
Dipartimento di Architettura, Università degli Studi di Firenze

Published 2023-05-30

Keywords

  • Building renovation,
  • Well-being,
  • Monitoring System,
  • Digital Twin,
  • User-experience,
  • Service Design
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How to Cite

Trombadore, A., Giorgi, D., Calcagno, G., & Pierucci, G. (2023). Enabling an augmented building experience by encouraging user engagement. TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, (25), 204–213. https://doi.org/10.36253/techne-13724

Abstract

Focus on the role of users is the heart of the ongoing research experience in the university Living Lab environment that investigates, systematises and tests the potential of the latest digital technologies in the construction sector (BIM-sensors-Digital Twin-IoT) to define enabling building-user interfaces that support the virtuous circle of energy efficiency/environmental well-being/proactive behaviour. Synchronising the real building/virtual model allows an augmented environmental experience and new levels of user involvement. It enriches the predictive systems of data-user experience, helping to calibrate the configuration of improvement scenarios in the design/operational phase on well-being objectives, expanding the awareness of the process actors for a new centrality of the decision as an ethical value.

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