posted on 2019-05-07, 12:07authored byHolger Schnadelbach, Nils Jager, Lachlan Urquhart
Through sensors carried by people and sensors embedded in the environment, personal data is being processed to try to understand activity patterns and people’s internal states in the context of human-building interaction. This data is used to actuate adaptive buildings to make them more comfortable, convenient, and accessible or information rich. In a series of envisioning workshops, we queried the future relationships between people, personal data and the built environment, when there are no technical limits to the availability of personal data to buildings. Our analysis of created designs and user experience fictions allows us to contribute a systematic exposition of the emerging design space for adaptive architecture that draws on personal data. This is being situated within the context of the new European information privacy legislation, the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016. Drawing on the tension space analysis method, we conclude with the illustration of the tensions in the temporal, spatial, and inhabitation-related relationships of personal data and adaptive buildings, re-usable for the navigation of the emerging, complex issues by future designers.
Funding
This work has been supported by the University of Nottingham through the Nottingham Research Fellowship ‘The Built Environment as the Interface to Personal Data’ and through EPSRC Grants EP/M000877/1, EP/P505658/1, and EP/M02315X/1.
History
School
Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Published in
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
Volume
26
Pages
1 - 31
Citation
SCHNADELBACH, H., JAEGER, N. and URQUHART, L., 2019. Adaptive architecture and personal data. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 26 (2), Article No. 12.