Human-Environment Co-Simulation
Existing approaches simulate environments' properties (e.g. temperature, noise, infection risks) and human occupancy (e.g. movement, actions) in an isolated fashion, providing limited ability to represent how environmental features affect human behavior and vice versa. At IPL, we develop integrated systems that enable co-simulation of human-environment interactions while coupling interdependent multi-domain phenomena including temperature, sound, as well as infection spread, with human movement and activities.
A more systematic integration among different simulation approaches could potentially enable in-depth analyses of human-environment interactions that span across research domains and hold promise to lead to better solvers as well as more efficient, sustainable and human-aware environments.
Media
Publications
- Schaumann D., Moon S., Usman M., Goldstein R., Breslav S., Khan A., Faloutsos P., Kapadia M. 2019. “JOIN: An Integrated Platform for Joint Simulation of Building-Occupant Interactions”, Architectural Science Review. Vol. 63 No. 3/4, pp. 339-350
- Esposito D., Schaumann D., Camarda D., Kalay Y. “Multi-agent modeling and simulation of hospital acquired infection propagation dynamics by contact transmission in hospital wards”. International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.
- Esposito D., Schaumann D., Camarda D., Kalay Y. 2020. “A multi-agent simulator of Infection Spread in a Healthcare Environment”. International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.
- Schaumann D., Moon S., Usman M., Goldstein R., Breslav S., Khan A., Faloutsos P., Kapadia M.. 2019. “Towards a Multi-Level and Multi-Paradigm Platform for Building Occupant Simulation”. Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD). Atlanta, Georgia, USA.