Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). Position paper for the CHI 2016 workshop “Future of Human-Building Interaction” Abstract We believe that the future of human-building interaction lies in the mediation of human-human interactions. In this work we introduce a smart home application called Ghosting, which is a two-way telepresence system that synchronizes the audio and lighting state of t...

for over the past several decades, there has been a great concern about energy crisis and lackof non-renewable resources. residential buildings take more than 25% of the total energy consumption and morethan 75% of energy consumption in these buildings is for heating, cooling and hot sanitary water. on the other hand,traditional buildings of iran were designed according to ecological conditions...

Shivering, you drag yourself, as if gun-shot, to the living room, to the old movie channel, to a Bogart festival, your mind fogged over (like the street on the screen) edging toward feverish sleep when Bogey snarls at Ida Lupino: “Of all the 14-carat saps...” Hours later when you wake, he’s smacking Peter Lorre: “When you’re slapped, you’ll take it and like it!” And as if cuffed, you black out,...

This paper introduces two case studies of augmented reality (AR) system, which use see-through HMDs. The rst case is a collaborative AR system called ARHockey that requires real-time interactive operations, moderate registration accuracy, and a relatively small registration area. The players can hit a virtual puck with physical mallets in a shared physical game eld. The other case study is the ...

We used personal air samplers to measure indoor air exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) for 20 residents of the Greater Boston Area (Massachusetts). Area air measures were simultaneously collected from two rooms in each participant's home. Total personal air concentrations (particulate + vapor) were 469 pg/m3 for non-209 BDEs and 174 pg/m3 for BDE 209, significantly higher than b...

The present article is devoted to the analysis of structural elements of a room prepared for comfort living. A new variant for minimizing the space in a room for comfort living is shown on the example of a studioapartment in two levels on an attic floor. An overview of the apartment is shown, as well as layout plans of floors with furniture. Favorable transitory elements between zones in the ro...