How a built environment that is robotic and interactive becomes an
apt home to our restless, dynamic, and increasingly digital
society. The relationship of humans to computers can no longer be
represented as one person in a chair and one computer on a desk.
Today computing finds its way into our pockets, our cars, our
appliances; it is ubiquitous-an inescapable part of our everyday
lives. Computing is even expanding beyond our devices; sensors,
microcontrollers, and actuators are increasingly embedded into the
built environment. In Architectural Robotics, Keith Evan Green
looks toward the next frontier in computing: interactive, partly
intelligent, meticulously designed physical environments. Green
examines how these "architectural robotic" systems will support and
augment us at work, school, and home, as we roam, interconnect, and
age. Green tells the stories of three projects from his research
lab that exemplify the reconfigurable, distributed, and
transfigurable environments of architectural robotics. The Animated
Work Environment is a robotic work environment of shape-shifting
physical space that responds dynamically to the working life of the
people within it; home+ is a suite of networked, distributed
"robotic furnishings" integrated into existing domestic and
healthcare environments; and LIT ROOM offers a simulated
environment in which the physical space of a room merges with the
imaginary space of a book, becoming "a portal to elsewhere." How
far beyond workstations, furniture, and rooms can the environments
of architectural robotics stretch? Green imagines scaled-up
neighborhoods, villages, and metropolises composed of physical
bits, digital bytes, living things, and their hybrids. Not global
but local, architectural robotics grounds computing in a capacious
cyber-physical home.
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