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This thesis suggests cooperation as a design paradigm for human-computer interaction. The basic idea is that the synergistic co-operation of interfaces through concurrent user activities enables increased interaction fluency and expressiveness. This applies to bimanual interaction and multi-finger input, e.g., touch typing, as well as the collaboration of multiple users. Cooperative user interfaces offer more interaction
flexibility and expressivity for single and multiple users.
Part I of this thesis analyzes the state of the art in user interface design. It explores limitations of common approaches and reveals the crucial role of cooperative action in several established user interfaces and research prototypes. A review of related research in psychology and human-computer interaction offers insights to the cognitive, behavioral, and ergonomic foundations of cooperative user interfaces. Moreover, this thesis suggests a broad applicability of generic cooperation patterns and contributes three high-level design principles.
Part II presents three experiments towards cooperative user interfaces in detail. A study on desktop-based 3D input devices, explores fundamental benefits of cooperative bimanual input and the impact of interface design on bimanual cooperative behavior. A novel interaction technique for multitouch devices is presented that follows the paradigm of cooperative user interfaces and demonstrates advantages over the status quo. Finally, this thesis introduces a fundamentally new display technology that provides up to six users with their individual perspectives of a shared 3D environment. The system creates new possibilities for the cooperative interaction of
multiple users.
Part III of this thesis builds on the research results described in Part II, in particular, the multi-user 3D display system. A series of case studies in the field of collaborative virtual reality provides exemplary evidence for the relevance and applicability of the suggested design principles.
Die meisten Baustellen bieten Optimierungspotential. Vor allem der Erdbau fordert durch seine hohe Dynamik und großen Unsicherheiten eine hohe Planungsleistung für jedes neue Projekt. Doch auch bei bester Planung und Vorbereitung kann der Bauprozess durch nicht vorhersehbare Einwirkungen aufgehalten werden. Dazu zählen Witterungseinflüsse, Baumaschinenausfälle, unvorhergesehene Bodenschichten und veränderte Zielsetzungen des Auftraggebers. Dies kann zu Störungen im Bauablauf führen, die eine Bauzeitverzögerung und eine Kostensteigerung nach sich ziehen. Um diese Probleme zu umgehen, sind ein verbesserter Informationsfluss, genaue Bodenaufschlüsse und eine exakte Dimensionierung des einzusetzenden Gerätes notwendig.
Hier kann Building Information Modeling (BIM) zum Einsatz kommen. Diese Anwendung bietet die Möglichkeit, die Datengenauigkeit zu erhöhen, den Informationsfluss auf der Baustelle zu verbessern, eine Informationsplattform für alle Beteiligten zu schaffen und die Abläufe transparent zu gestalten. Außerdem ermöglicht die Anwendung Planungsschritte miteinander zu verknüpfen, Kalkulationen zu vereinfachen und das Erstellen eines intelligenten Modells, das über den gesamten Lebenszyklus erweitert werden kann.
Die Grundlagen dieser Arbeit bilden die Begriffsdefinitionen zu Erdbau, Tiefbau und Building Information Modeling. Diese Arbeit setzt sich speziell mit Erdbauwerken und deren Sicherungsmaßnahmen auseinander. Darauf aufbauend wird im Rahmen einer Recherche der Forschungsstand im Bereich Building Information Modeling und Tiefbau zusammengefasst. Mit Hilfe einiger Forschungsbeiträge, -projekte, -verbände, Dissertationen und Anwendungsprogrammen wird ein Überblick geschaffen. Die Übersicht soll eine Grundlage für die weitere Forschung auf diesem Gebiet bilden. Abschließend findet eine Bewertung statt.
Über die Aufgabenstellung hinaus wird zusätzlich mit dem Softwareprogramm Revit 2014 ein Modell erstellt, um aufzuzeigen, dass das Potential auf Erdbaustellen mit BIM-Anwendungen besser ausgeschöpft werden kann. Es wird versucht eine Gabionenwand, eine Sicherungsmaßnahme von Erdbauwerken zu modellieren und sie mit Parametern auszustatten. Zusammenfassend wird das Programm für den Einsatz im Tiefbau bewertet.
Urban planning involves many aspects and various disciplines, demanding an asynchronous planning approach. The level of complexity rises with each aspect to be considered and makes it difficult to find universally satisfactory solutions. To improve this situation we propose a new approach, which complement traditional design methods with a computational urban plan- ning method that can fulfil formalizable design requirements automatically. Based on this approach we present a design space exploration framework for complex urban planning projects. For a better understanding of the idea of design space exploration, we introduce the concept of a digital scout which guides planners through the design space and assists them in their creative explorations. The scout can support planners during manual design by informing them about potential im- pacts or by suggesting different solutions that fulfill predefined quality requirements. The planner can change flexibly between a manually controlled and a completely automated design process. The developed system is presented using an exemplary urban planning scenario on two levels from the street layout to the placement of building volumes. Based on Self-Organizing Maps we implemented a method which makes it possible to visualize the multi-dimensional solution space in an easily analysable and comprehensible form.
A parametric method for building design optimization based on Life Cycle Assessment - Appendix
(2016)
The building sector is responsible for a large share of human environmental impacts, over which architects and planners have a major influence. The main objective of this thesis is to develop a method for environmental building design optimization based on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) that is applicable as part of the design process. The research approach includes a thorough analysis of LCA for buildings in relation to the architectural design stages and the establishment of a requirement catalogue. The key concept of the novel method called Parametric Life Cycle Assessment(PLCA) is to combine LCA with parametric design. The application of this method to three examples shows that building designs can be optimized time-efficiently and holistically from the beginning of the most influential early design stages, an achievement which has not been possible until now.
The described study aims to find correlations between urban spatial configurations and human emotions. To this end, the authors measured people’s emotions while they walk along a path in an urban area using an instrument that measures skin conductance and skin temperature. The corresponding locations of the test persons were measured recorded by using a GPS-tracker (n=13). The results are interpreted and categorized as measures for positive and negative emotional arousal. To evaluate the technical and methodological process. The test results offer initial evidence that certain spaces or spatial sequences do cause positive or negative emotional arousal while others are relatively neutral. To achieve the goal of the study, the outcome was used as a basis for the study of testing correlations between people’s emotional responses and urban spatial configurations represented by Isovist properties of the urban form. By using their model the authors can explain negative emotional arousal for certain places, but they couldn’t find a model to predict emotional responses for individual spatial configurations.
Die vorliegende Arbeit fokussiert die Optimierung freigeformter adaptiver Faserverbundflächentragwerke auf Basis einer entwickelten und auf einem parametrischen Gesamtmodell basierenden Entwurfsmethode. Die Übertragung adaptiver, natürlich inspirierter Vorgänge stellt eine weitreichende Inspirationsquelle dar. Adaptive Tragwerke können unter Anwendung von Smart Materials als materialsparende, filigrane Tragwerke ausgeführt werden. Die Erfüllung der Grenzzustände der Tragfähigkeit und der Gebrauchstauglichkeit wird nicht allein über die Querschnittsabmessungen sichergestellt. Die notwendige Bauteilsteifigkeit kann vielmehr durch Eintragung von Aktivierungsenergie (Operational Energy) realisiert werden. Auf diese Weise kann die aufgrund der Bauteilabmessungen gebundene Energie (Embodied Energy) minimiert werden. Die entwickelte Entwurfsmethode ermöglicht die Auslegung und Optimierung materialminimierter Schalentragwerke in einem mehrstufigen Prozess. Hierbei wird aus tragwerksplanerischer Sicht die numerische Formfindung, die statische Berechnung und die Aktor- und Sensorpositionierung berechnet. Zudem werden Analysen hinsichtlich der Nachhaltigkeit auf Basis einer Lebenszyklusanalyse durchgeführt. Aufgrund der unterschiedlichen, sich aber gegenseitig beeinflussenden Kriterien, ist eine Optimierung durchzuführen. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird ein Ansatz zur Definition zulässiger Ökobilanzkennwerte von Smart Materials auf Basis der Energiedifferenz zwischen einer passiven und einer adaptiven Struktur vorgestellt. Anhand dieser Kennwerte kann die Entwicklung zukünftiger Smart Materials unter dem Aspekt der ganzheitlichen Nachhaltigkeit erfolgen. Die Allgemeingültigkeit und Übertragbarkeit der Entwurfsmethode auf weitere Tragsysteme im Bauwesen und speziell anderer Materialkonstellationen wird anhand verschiedener Beispiele aufgezeigt.
Briefly, the two basic questions that this research is supposed to answer are:
1. Howmuch fiber is needed and how fibers should be distributed through a fiber reinforced composite (FRC) structure in order to obtain the optimal and reliable structural response?
2. How do uncertainties influence the optimization results and reliability of the structure?
Giving answer to the above questions a double stage sequential optimization algorithm for finding the optimal content of short fiber reinforcements and their distribution in the composite structure, considering uncertain design parameters, is presented. In the first stage, the optimal amount of short fibers in a FRC structure with uniformly distributed fibers is conducted in the framework of a Reliability Based Design Optimization (RBDO) problem. Presented model considers material, structural and modeling uncertainties. In the second stage, the fiber distribution optimization (with the aim to further increase in structural reliability) is performed by defining a fiber distribution function through a Non-Uniform Rational BSpline (NURBS) surface. The advantages of using the NURBS surface as a fiber distribution function include: using the same data set for the optimization and analysis; high convergence rate due to the smoothness of the NURBS; mesh independency of the optimal layout; no need for any post processing technique and its non-heuristic nature. The output of stage 1 (the optimal fiber content for homogeneously distributed fibers) is considered as the input of stage 2. The output of stage 2 is the Reliability Index (b ) of the structure with the optimal fiber content and distribution.
First order reliability method (in order to approximate the limit state function) as well as different material models including Rule of Mixtures, Mori-Tanaka, energy-based approach and stochastic multi-scales are implemented in different examples. The proposed combined model is able to capture the role of available uncertainties in FRC structures through a computationally efficient algorithm using all sequential, NURBS and sensitivity based techniques. The methodology is successfully implemented for interfacial shear stress optimization in sandwich beams and also for optimization of the internal cooling channels in a ceramic matrix composite.
Finally, after some changes and modifications by combining Isogeometric Analysis, level set and point wise density mapping techniques, the computational framework is extended for topology optimization of piezoelectric / flexoelectric materials.
Cyber security has become a major concern for users and businesses alike. Cyberstalking and harassment have been identified as a growing anti-social problem. Besides detecting cyberstalking and harassment, there is the need to gather digital evidence, often by the victim. To this end, we provide an overview of and discuss relevant technological means, in particular coming from text analytics as well as machine learning, that are capable to address the above challenges. We present a framework for the detection of text-based cyberstalking and the role and challenges of some core techniques such as author identification, text classification and personalisation. We then discuss PAN, a network and evaluation initiative that focusses on digital text forensics, in particular author identification.
The current study attempts to recognise an adequate classification for a semi-rigid beam-to-column connection by investigating strength, stiffness and ductility. For this purpose, an experimental test was carried out to investigate the moment-rotation (M-theta) features of flush end-plate (FEP) connections including variable parameters like size and number of bolts, thickness of end-plate, and finally, size of beams and columns. The initial elastic stiffness and ultimate moment capacity of connections were determined by an extensive analytical procedure from the proposed method prescribed by ANSI/AISC 360-10, and Eurocode 3 Part 1-8 specifications. The behaviour of beams with partially restrained or semi-rigid connections were also studied by incorporating classical analysis methods. The results confirmed that thickness of the column flange and end-plate substantially govern over the initial rotational stiffness of of flush end-plate connections. The results also clearly showed that EC3 provided a more reliable classification index for flush end-plate (FEP) connections. The findings from this study make significant contributions to the current literature as the actual response characteristics of such connections are non-linear. Therefore, such semirigid behaviour should be used to for an analysis and design method.
Egypt is a nation of 4000 years of civilization, which was known for its ancient architecture that occupied the highest rank of importance, but how long will our neglected heritage sites survive in our recent era? This is a rising debate. This paper is based on a hypothesis whether the conservation of the neglected or isolated heritage sites, particularly in the inhabited areas, can bind the citizens to their past. For this reason, the research provides scenes of many applied conservation practices in other countries. The study calls for developing a new applied approach of conservation that takes the interaction between citizens and the city heritage zones into consideration.
Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema Stadthotels in Deutschland zwischen Energieeffizienz und Wirtschaftlichkeit - Studie auf Grundlagen der EnEV-Anforderungen. Die Arbeit setzt sich mit einer qualitativen und quantitativen Analyse über die Energieeffizienz auf Grundlagen der EnEV-Anforderungen und deren Wirtschaftlichkeit bei Stadthotels in Deutschland auseinander. Die Analyse wurde anhand von verschiedenen Untersuchungen bei Hotels aufgebaut. Diese umfassen empirische, energetische und wirtschaftliche Untersuchungen. Die durchgeführten Untersuchungen kommen schließlich zu eindeutigen Ergebnissen auf verschiedenen Ebenen. Im Ergebnis wird deutlich, dass die Optimierung der Gebäudetechnik sowie auch die Verbesserung der energetischen Qualität der Gebäudehülle der Hotels bedeutende Einflussfaktoren zur Steigerung der Energieeffizienz darstellen. Dabei ist jedoch festzuhalten, dass sich die Optimierung der Gebäudetechnik der Hotels insbesondere im Bereich der Lüftungs- und Klimatechnik als besonders wirksam erwiesen hat. Die Effektivität dieser Maßnahmen konnte sowohl in Hinsicht auf die Steigerung der Energieeffizienz als auch in Bezug auf die Wirtschaftlichkeit bewiesen werden.
Die thermodynamischen Grundlagen der Hydratation von Hüttensand als Hauptbestandteil von Zementen werden erforscht. Hierbei werden thermodynamische Bildungs- und Reaktionsdaten experimentell bestimmt und berechnet. Darüber hinaus wird der Prozess der Feststoffauflösung von Hüttensand in wässrigen Lösungen untersucht. Lösungs- und Fällungsprozesse werden unter verschiedenen Konditionen gemessen, ausgewertet und diskutiert. Die Ergebnisse werden im weiteren Verlauf zur Bestimmung der Hydratationsgrades in Pasten sowie zum besseren Verständnis in der Wechselwirkung zwischen Hüttensanden und Mahlhilfsstoffen genutzt und angewandt.
In vielen öffentlichen Gebäuden besteht ein hohes wirtschaftliches Einsparpotenzial bei den relevanten Energieträgern Wärme und Strom. Projekte zur energetischen Optimierungen refinanzieren sich häufig nach wenigen Jahren. Die notwenigen Investitionsmittel stehen jedoch nur begrenzt zur Verfügung. Zielgerichtete Analysen und Potenzialschätzungen sind erforderlich, um eine Priorisierung optionaler Maßnahmen zu erreichen. Die Studie zeigt anhand eines öffentlichen Portfolios notwendige Untersuchungsschritte auf. Die Einzelpotenziale werden über geeignete Benchmarks ermittelt. Auf Portfolioebene werden u. a. spezifische Potenzial-Matrizen genutzt. Die kennzahlenbasierte Priorisierung von Maßnahmen ist umso wichtiger, je stärker das Potenzial auf wenige Objekte konzentriert ist.
This work presents a concept of interactive machine learning in a human design process. An urban design problem is viewed as a multiple-criteria optimization problem. The outlined feature of an urban design problem is the dependence of a design goal on a context of the problem. We model the design goal as a randomized fitness measure that depends on the context. In terms of multiple-criteria decision analysis (MCDA), the defined measure corresponds to a subjective expected utility of a user. In the first stage of the proposed approach we let the algorithm explore a design space using clustering techniques. The second stage is an interactive design loop; the user makes a proposal, then the program optimizes it, gets the user’s feedback and returns back the control over the application interface.
In this work different fibre optic sensors for the structural health monitoring of civil engineering structures are reported. A fibre optic crack sensor and two different fibre optic moisture sensors have been designed to detect the moisture ingress in concrete based building structures. Moreover, the degeneration of the mechanical properties of optical glass fibre sensors and hence their long-term stability and reliability due to the mechanical and chemical impact of the concrete environment is discussed as well as the advantage of applying a fibre optic sensor system for the structural health monitoring of sewerage tunnels is demonstrated.
Urban and building energy simulation models are usually driven by typical meteorological year (TMY) weather data often in a TMY2 or EPW format. However, the locations where these historical datasets were collected (usually airports) generally do not represent the local, site specific micro-climates that cities develop. In this paper, a humid sub-tropical climate context has been considered. An idealised “urban unit model” of 250 m radius is being presented as a method of adapting commonly available weather data files to the local micro-climate. This idealised “urban unit model” is based on the main thermal and morphological characteristics of nine sites with residential/institutional (university) use in Hangzhou, China. The area of the urban unit was determined by the region of influence on the air temperature signal at the centre of the unit. Air temperature and relative humidity were monitored and the characteristics of the surroundings assessed (eg green-space, blue-space, built form). The “urban unit model” was then implemented into micro-climatic simulations using a Computational Fluid Dynamics – Surface Energy Balance analysis tool (ENVI-met, Version 4). The “urban unit model” approach used here in the simulations delivered results with performance evaluation indices comparable to previously published work (for air temperature; RMSE <1, index of agreement d > 0.9). The micro-climatic simulation results were then used to adapt the air temperature and relative humidity of the TMY file for Hangzhou to represent the local, site specific morphology under three different weather forcing cases, (ie cloudy/rainy weather (Group 1), clear sky, average weather conditions (Group 2) and clear sky, hot weather (Group 3)). Following model validation, two scenarios (domestic and non-domestic building use) were developed to assess building heating and cooling loads against the business as usual case of using typical meteorological year data files. The final “urban weather projections” obtained from the simulations with the “urban unit model” were used to compare the degree days amongst the reference TMY file, the TMY file with a bulk UHI offset and the TMY file adapted for the site-specific micro-climate (TMY-UWP). The comparison shows that Heating Degree Days (HDD) of the TMY file (1598 days) decreased by 6 % in the “TMY + UHI” case and 13 % in the “TMY-UWP” case showing that the local specific micro-climate is attributed with an additional 7 % (ie from 6 to 13 %) reduction in relation to the bulk UHI effect in the city. The Cooling Degree Days (CDD) from the “TMY + UHI” file are 17 % more than the reference TMY (207 days) and the use of the “TMY-UWP” file results to an additional 14 % increase in comparison with the “TMY + UHI” file (ie from 17 to 31 %). This difference between the TMY-UWP and the TMY + UHI files is a reflection of the thermal characteristics of the specific urban morphology of the studied sites compared to the wider city. A dynamic thermal simulation tool (TRNSYS) was used to calculate the heating and cooling load demand change in a domestic and a non-domestic building scenario. The heating and cooling loads calculated with the adapted TMY-UWP file show that in both scenarios there is an increase by approximately 20 % of the cooling load and a 20 % decrease of the heating load. If typical COP values for a reversible air-conditioning system are 2.0 for heating and 3.5 for cooling then the total electricity consumption estimated with the use of the “urbanised” TMY-UWP file will be decreased by 11 % in comparison with the “business as usual” (ie reference TMY) case. Overall, it was found that the proposed method is appropriate for urban and building energy performance simulations in humid sub-tropical climate cities such as Hangzhou, addressing some of the shortfalls of current simulation weather data sets such as the TMY.
Broadband electromagnetic frequency or time domain sensor techniques present high potential for quantitative water content monitoring in porous media. Prior to in situ application, the impact of the relationship between the broadband electromagnetic properties of the porous material (clay-rock) and the water content on the frequency or time domain sensor response is required. For this purpose, dielectric properties of intact clay rock samples experimental determined in the frequency range from 1 MHz to 10 GHz were used as input data in 3-D numerical frequency domain finite element field calculations to model the one port broadband frequency or time domain transfer function for a three rods based sensor embedded in the clay-rock. The sensor response in terms of the reflection factor was analyzed in time domain with classical travel time analysis in combination with an empirical model according to Topp equation, as well as the theoretical Lichtenecker and Rother model (LRM) to estimate the volumetric water content. The mixture equation considering the appropriate porosity of the investigated material provide a practical and efficient approach for water content estimation based on classical travel time analysis with the onset-method. The inflection method is not recommended for water content estimation in electrical dispersive and absorptive material. Moreover, the results clearly indicate that effects due to coupling of the sensor to the material cannot be neglected. Coupling problems caused by an air gap lead to dramatic effects on water content estimation, even for submillimeter gaps. Thus, the quantitative determination of the in situ water content requires careful sensor installation in order to reach a perfect probe clay rock coupling.