In our view architecture is no longer concerned merely with designing appealing containers for people and things. In combination with Perceptual Intelligence modeling techniques and state-of-the-art sensing technology, we endow architectural spaces with the ability to sense, respond and adapt to the way peopleexperience, interact with and use them.
We create living, sensitive people-driven spaces that are at once engaging, entertaining and elegant. Spaces that will also make an invaluable contribution to the definition of a new concept of architecture for the third millennium.
Behavioral scientists routinely publish broad claims about human psychology and behavior in the world’s top journals based on samples drawn entirely from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic (WEIRD) societies. Researchers – often implicitly – assume that either there is little variation across human populations, or that these “standard subjects” are as representative of the species as any other population. Are these assumptions justified? Here, our review of the comparative database from across the behavioral sciences suggests both that there is substantial variability in experimental results across populations and that WEIRD subjects are particularly unusual compared with the rest of the species – frequent outliers. The domains reviewed include visual perception, fairness, cooperation, spatial reasoning, categorization and inferential induction, moral reasoning, reasoning styles, self-concepts and related motivations, and the heritability of IQ. The findings suggest that members of WEIRD societies, including young children, are among the least representative populations one could find for generalizing about humans. Many of these findings involve domains that are associated with fundamental aspects of psychology, motivation, and behavior – hence, there are no obvious a priori grounds for claiming that a particular behavioral phenomenon is universal based on sampling from a single subpopulation. Overall, these empirical patterns suggests that we need to be less cavalier in addressing questions of human nature on the basis of data drawn from this particularly thin, and rather unusual, slice of humanity. We close by proposing ways to structurally re‐organize the behavioral sciences to best tackle these challenges.
With a remote switch – save all the standby powers!
Check out the Wattson by DIY Kyoto
Here is an intro video – http://www.diykyoto.com/uk/wattson/about
Let me show you how much electricity your home is using
Read more about it at http://www.diykyoto.com/uk
Here is a very cute and “warm” commercial for Natural Gas with knitting!
Check out the making of it – don’t ever underestimate the power of stop motion video!
1. last year’s end of semester open house – we will do it this year, April 27 6-8 pm at the Aware Home
2. a procedural drawing program – try it out
3. professor ban laptops in class
World Wide Web of Distraction!