Ambient Intelligence and Interfaces in the Built Environment Workshop

Mediated Intelligence in Design

Ambient Intelligence and Interfaces in the Built Environment Workshop

Deakin Geelong Waterfront, 10th February 2020

On Monday February 9th, MindLab hosted Ambient Intelligence and Interfaces in the Built Environment Workshop. The workshop represents one of the initiatives of the MindLab director, professor Tuba Kocaturk, to establish a new area of expertise at Deakin University in applications of embedding “intelligence” into our everyday physical spaces and outdoor environments, all with a purpose to develop innovative ways for people to interact with surrounding physical space.

The subject area is intrinsically transdisciplinary, which builds on advances in design, materials, sensors and sensor networks, pervasive computing, and artificial intelligence, HCI and interfaces, as applied to the Built Environment. With this workshop, MindLab aimed to bring people from complementary expertise and interest in this subject matter to explore possible pathways for collaboration, through funded research and practice- based applications.

The workshop attracted very diverse team that equally included Deakin University academic staff as well as industry stakeholders and city of Geelong representatives. Some of the participants, schools/departments listed below:

Jennifer Loy, Professor in Additive Manufacturing Engineering, School of Engineering
David Halliwell, Industry Professor, Faculty Office
Stefan Greuter, Professor of Screen and Design, Faculty of Arts and Education
Mohamed Abdelrazek, Associate Professor, School of Info Technology
Guangyan Huang, Associate Professor in Computer Science, School of Info Technology
Reza Hosseini, Senior Lecturer in Construction, School of Architecture & Built Environment
Thuong Hoang, Senior Lecturer, Virtual and Augmented Reality, School of Info Technology
Hong Xian Li, Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture & Built Environment
Simeon Taylor, Lecturer in Screen and Design, Faculty of Arts and Education
Veronica Moran, Project Manager, Deakin eSolutions
Yifeng Chen, Darkspede Pty Ltd