Access-Based Consumption in the Built Environment: Sharing Spaces

The pressing need to implement a more circular economy has led to advancements in the research field. In the spatial context, sharing spaces and access-over-ownership models have the potential to mitigate the detrimental environmental impacts of space use. This study aims to adapt an existing theoretical framework on access-based consumption...

Towards Collaborative Convergence: Quantifying Collaboration Quality with Automated Co-located Collaboration Analytics

Collaboration is one of the four important 21st-century skills. With the pervasive use of sensors, interest on co-located collaboration (CC) has increased lately. Most related literature used the audio modality to detect indicators of collaboration (such as total speaking time and turn taking). CC takes place in physical spaces where group...

Co-location within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Co-location as a tool within the CRE strategy and as part of the CRE portfolio that adds more value to the organization

Problem definition: There is a gap in the literature on co-location: no literature is found on the use of co-location between third parties and governmental organizations (external co-location). Co-location is already being implemented within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). However, co-location has remained as a vague concept within MFA...

Literature Review on Co-Located Collaboration Modeling Using Multimodal Learning Analytics - Can We Go the Whole Nine Yards?

Collaboration is one of the important 21st-century skills. It can take place in remote or co-located settings. Co-located collaboration (CC) is a very complex process that involves subtle human interactions that can be described with indicators like eye gaze, speaking time, pitch, and social skills from different modalities. With the advent...

Two-way Augmented Reality Co-location Under Telemedicine Context

The medical care responsibilities are often on the shoulders of nonprofessionals such as captains who are equipped with forty hours of designated training every five years. However, this training is neither enough for the captains to handle medical incidents nor releases their stress during the treatment. Currently, captains have very limited...

Towards automatic collaboration analytics for group speech data using learning analytics

Collaboration is an important 21st Century skill. Co-located (or face-to-face) collaboration (CC) analytics gained momentum with the advent of sensor technology. Most of these works have used the audio modality to detect the quality of CC. The CC quality can be detected from simple indicators of collaboration such as total speaking time or...

A comparative study on distributed active damping of flexible systems

As systems become more lightweight, to satisfy inertia and size requirements, vibration becomes a prominent factor in their dynamics. This vibration is undesirable and various suppression methods exist such as passive, semi-active, and active. In this thesis, active control methods are explored for this purpose. The present technology utilizes...

Blending technological, cognitive and social enablers to develop an immersive virtual learning environment for construction engineering education

The conceptual framework of the proposed novel system was to provide a stimulating learning experience for dislocated digital learners, who are seen as individuals with different perceptions and expectations. In addition to functionally integrate technological, cognitive and social enablers, the system was required to encapsulate what can be...

Implementation of Virtual Design and Construction: Evaluation and improvement of the VDC implementation in the design phase of large AEC projects

Design processes in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry are claimed to lack performance (Churchill and Thoren, 2009; CIB, 2009; Rezgui et al, 2009). The lacking performance is caused by fragmentation of the industry into multiple disciplines (Rezgui et al, 2009). As a result of the multi-disciplinary nature of the...

CO LIBRARY: Creating de-centralised library touchpoints in the city of Delft

This project was sponsored by DOK library concept centre, Delft. The library wanted to create a touch point in the upcoming town hall (spoorzone) in the city. The problem was how and what service could the library provide at the location? The users of this service would be the citizens of Delft who come to the town hall for a variety of tasks....