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Simulating the User Experience: Design Optimisation for Visitor Comfort
Author(s) -
Sharma Shrikant,
Fisher Al
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1555
Subject(s) - visitor pattern , focus (optics) , software , computer science , process (computing) , architectural engineering , building automation , software engineering , engineering management , human–computer interaction , engineering , physics , optics , thermodynamics , programming language , operating system
Much emphasis in computation has been put on the potential of building information modelling (BIM) and other software in the coordination of the design and construction process and on building performance. What, however, can modelling techniques offer to shift the focus to simulating the user experience? Shrikant Sharma and Al Fisher of Buro Happold SMART Solutions, which offers specialist computational innovation services to external clients, describe how their team has developed SMART Move, a crowd‐modelling software that has been used in the development of the designs for Wilkinson Eyre's Exeter University Forum and Foster + Partners' Thomas Deacon Academy.