The evolution of Human Building Interaction

Guest Editors

Important dates

• Deadline: January 31, 2017 -> February 13, 2017 (extended)

• Notification to the authors: February 28, 2017 -> April 10, 2017

• Camera ready paper: March 15, 2017 -> April 25, 2017

• Publication of the special issue: end of March, 2017 -> mid May 2017

Overview

Our interactive experience with the built environments, at home, at work, and even in public urban spaces is rapidly evolving. This is attributed to advancements in sensing and actuation systems that can integrate into the building infrastructures, coupled with the new environmental concerns that call for new life, work, and mobility styles. This change, whether gradual or sudden, evident or seamless, can have a signicant inuence on our everyday experiences, and thus entails eorts to envision possible scenarios and plan for them.

We believe that future buildings, as they would embody our digital and physical interactive daily experiences, should be designed and nurtured in a dialogue with their users, both at the individual as well as social levels. This concern has become of central importance in the newly emerging research domain of Human-Building Interaction (HBI), which seeks to provide a user-centred lens to addresses the physical, spatial, and social design opportunities and challenges  that emerge as our built environments become immersively interactive.

In this special issue we aim to bring together contributions from the elds of human-computer interaction, building and urban architecture, and social sciences; and provide a common platform for collaboratively creating and sharing future 'images' of Human-Building Interaction in a time frame of 10-20 years.

Topics of Interest

 Three types of submission are invited:

• Conceptual contributions

envisioning the evolution of HBI (ideally in specific use situations such as home, oce, school, urban public spaces, transportation vehicles, etc.)

• Design and evaluation of technologies and physical artifacts

to enhance human interaction with, experience in buildings. This can include topics such as home automation systems, comfort, spatial user experience, robotic homw, etc.

• Data acquisition and user modeling  

applied to HBI-related opportunities and challenges

Submission procedure 

All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be original and may not be under review by another publication.

The manuscripts should be submitted anonymized either in .doc or in .rtf format. 
All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. Perspective participants are invited to submit a 8-20 pages paper (including authors' information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.). 
The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines .

Submission page -> link
(when submitting the paper please choose Domain Subjects under: 'IxD&A special issue on: ‘The evolution of Human Building Interaction')

For scientific advices and for any query please contact the guest-editor:

• hamed [dot] alavi [at] unifr [dot] ch

marking the subject as: 'IxD&A special issue on: The evolution of Human Building Interaction''.