Handbook of Research on Implementing Digital Reality and Interactive Technologies to Achieve Society 5.0

Research on digital reality has been extensive in recent years, covering a wide range of topics and leading to new ways to approach and deal with complex situations. Within the Society 5.0 paradigm, people and machines establish a positive relationship to find solutions for social aspects and problems. This perspective establishes a strong interconnection between physical and virtual space, making the user an active player for better life and society. In these terms, digital systems and virtual and augmented reality technologies enable multi-dimensional scenarios and additional levels of interdisciplinary collaboration to create a highly inclusive communication network and social framework. The Handbook of Research on Implementing Digital Reality and Interactive Technologies to Achieve Society 5.0 provides an overview of methods, processes, and tools adopted to achieve super-smart society needs by exploiting digital reality and interactive technologies. It includes case studies that illustrate applications that place people’s quality of life at the center of the digitalization process, accessing and managing different information and data domains. Covering topics such as cultural heritage, interactive learning, and virtual participation, this major reference work is a comprehensive resource for business executives and managers, IT managers, government officials, community leaders, arts and performance organizers, healthcare administrators and professionals, faculty and administrators of both K-12 and higher education, students of higher education, researchers, and academicians

BIM and Facility Management for smart data management and visualization

Il BIM è per tutti gli edifici. Riconosciuta tra le disruptive technologies, la metodologia BIM cambia completamente il modo tradizionale di lavorare dell’industria delle costruzioni, a partire dalla fase di progettazione. In questo scenario, la sfida più interessante è quella di stabilire un framework, che riunisca metodi e strumenti per il ciclo di vita degli edifici, per la gestione del costruito. Il paradigma di Smart city si declina anche nella disponibilità di smart data, includendo, quindi, l’utilizzo intelligente delle informazioni riguardanti il patrimonio immobiliare. Il coinvolgimento proattivo del Facility Management nel processo edilizio è la chiave per garantire la disponibilità di un dataset appropriato di informazioni, supportando l’idea di un sistema di gestione della conoscenza basato sul BIM. In linea con questo approccio, un processo di management impostato a partire dal BIM è conseguibile attraverso una re-ingegnerizzazione complessiva della filiera atta a garantire l’efficacia del BIM ed a fornire servizi intelligenti di Facility 4.0.BIM is for all buildings. As a disruptive technology, BIM completely changes the traditional way of working of the Construction Industry, starting from the design stage. However, the challenging issue is to establish a framework that brings together methods and tools for the buildings lifecycle, focusing on the existing buildings management. Smart city means smart data, including, therefore, intelligent use of Real Estate information. Involving Facility Management in the process is the key to ensure the availability of the proper dataset of information, supporting the idea of a BIM-based knowledge management system. According to this approach, BIM Management is achievable applying a reverse engineering process to guarantee the BIM effectiveness and to provide Facility 4.0 smart services

Virtual Representations for Cybertherapy: A Relaxation Experience for Dementia Patients

The development of serious games has enabled new challenges for the healthcare sector in psychological, cognitive and motor rehabilitation. Thanks to Virtual Reality, stimulating and interactive experiences can be reproduced in a safe and controlled environment. This chapter illustrates the experimentation conducted in the hospital setting for the non-pharmacological treatment of cognitive disorders associated with Dementia. The therapy aims to relax patients of the agitation cluster through a gaming approach through the immersion in multisensory and natural settings in which sound and visual stimuli are provided. The study is supported by a technological architecture, including the Virtual Wall system for stereoscopic wall projection and rigid body tracking

SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF HOSPITAL DESIGN USING PARAMETRIC TOPOLOGICAL INFORMATION: MOLINETTE HEALTHCARE COMPLEX AND LALEH HOSPITAL CASE STUDIES

The importance of the architectural design of healthcare buildings can be traced back to their particular usage, which includes administrative and clinical functions in addition to those open to the public. For this reason, the most relevant feature in the conformation of sanitary buildings is the access to the areas. According to the different architectural plan design and world-wide experiences, various hospitals styles and types were defined over time. In this article, the spatial configuration has been investigated with the aim of analysing the efficiency of spaces in functional terms. Within this framework, Space Syntax, as a theoretical and practical method, has been applied using data modelling tools. The core of the analysis relies on the mapping on the architectural plan of the level of access, including the degree of taking advantage of natural light and ventilation. Two case studies with different layout systems were analyzed and the outcomes compared. The procedure implemented represents a useful tool for studying architectural qualities in existing hospitals as well as a reference guide to screening new constructions

Handbook of Research on Implementing Digital Reality and Interactive Technologies to Achieve Society 5.0

Research on digital reality has been extensive in recent years, covering a wide range of topics and leading to new ways to approach and deal with complex situations. Within the Society 5.0 paradigm, people and machines establish a positive relationship to find solutions for social aspects and problems. This perspective establishes a strong interconnection between physical and virtual space, making the user an active player for better life and society. In these terms, digital systems and virtual and augmented reality technologies enable multi-dimensional scenarios and additional levels of interdisciplinary collaboration to create a highly inclusive communication network and social framework. The Handbook of Research on Implementing Digital Reality and Interactive Technologies to Achieve Society 5.0 provides an overview of methods, processes, and tools adopted to achieve super-smart society needs by exploiting digital reality and interactive technologies. It includes case studies that illustrate applications that place people’s quality of life at the center of the digitalization process, accessing and managing different information and data domains. Covering topics such as cultural heritage, interactive learning, and virtual participation, this major reference work is a comprehensive resource for business executives and managers, IT managers, government officials, community leaders, arts and performance organizers, healthcare administrators and professionals, faculty and administrators of both K-12 and higher education, students of higher education, researchers, and academicians

Computational BIM design approach supporting Spatial Analysis: the case of healthcare facilities

Architectural planning and spaces organisation are primary aspects of the design of a building. Architects are constantly looking for solutions that seek to combine increasingly high-performance aesthetic and functional factors according to specific purposes of use. On the other hand, the building process has resulted from some logic that shapes the built environment, such as urban morphology, climate conditions, economic context. The interaction of specialist disciplines and among stakeholders often leads to changing the original idea of the configuration. Methodologies and tools are needed to verify that the initial requirements are met according to the social patterns. The relationship between spaces, functions, and social activities is crucial for built environment management, particularly relevant in healthcare. From the Space Syntax science-based, human-focused approach, this paper presents a methodological framework and toolkit to exploit the potential of Building Information Modelling within this field. Parametric models are used both to implement data and to automatize the evaluation of indicators based on the level of interaction and depth of spaces. The objective is to establish a database and a shared language to correlate spatial analysis with other disciplines. The proposed method can be adopted for an expeditious evaluation of the current state of the buildings, thus becoming an iterative assessment procedure of design solutions and re-functionalisation projects

Evaluation of the Effects of Anxiety on Behaviour and Physiological Parameters in VR Fire Simulations

This study considers the use of virtual reality technologies both to evaluate the optimal exodus paths from buildings and to analyze the behaviour of people in emergencies through the monitoring of physiological parameters. The degree of realism with which VR devices can simulate highly anxiogenic scenarios is considered. The experimentation is carried out on a school building and tested through a pilot trial where saturation, blood pressure, heart rate as well as the time of exodus are monitored. The variations of the peak values of physiological parameters highlight the influence of anxiogenic elements in the participant's state of anxiety

A BIM-based approach supporting fire engineering

From performance based approach to BIM-based approach. The exploitation of Building Information Modelling within Fire Engineering can be considered a further technical and technological development. The objective is to implement the BIM model with the most significant Fire Prevention information in order to use them during the building lifecycle by operators and rescuers, in particular for maintenance and emergency management. According to the phase of the project, it is possible to extend the data richness about structures, introducing materials and physical properties to the components, supporting for example the fire resistance checks. Furthermore, data exchange towards specialized software, as CFD analysis, is enabled through to the interoperability process optimizing time and accuracy of simulations

Multi-Level Information Processing Systems in the Digital Twin Era

The most challenging aspect of the scientific panorama linked to technological innovation is the search for possible connections between Representation, Man and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the complex ecosystem that defines a Digital Twin. Man plays a crucial role in facilitating communication processes both for the dissemination of knowledge and the accessibility and usability of content and for his ability to become a “sensor” and communicate information, feelings, emotions. The contribution proposes a cross-section of applications that link and decline Augmented Reality and AI differently according to a gradual scale shift from the artefact contained in a building overlooking an urban context of interest. The result is a multi-level information processing system derived from the three-dimensional matrix that links data collection, representation and visualisation techniques and tools with the cultural heritage – city, building, artefact – according to specific use cases

Chapter Digital Twin. Experimenting drawings (di-SEGNI) between science and technology in teaching

The 43rd UID conference, held in Genova, takes up the theme of ‘Dialogues’ as practice and debate on many fundamental topics in our social life, especially in these complex and not yet resolved times. The city of Genova offers the opportunity to ponder on the value of comparison and on the possibilities for the community, naturally focused on the aspects that concern us, as professors, researchers, disseminators of knowledge, or on all the possibile meanings of the discipline of representation and its dialogue with ‘others’, which we have broadly catalogued in three macro areas: History, Semiotics, Science / Technology. Therefore, “dialogue” as a profitable exchange based on a common language, without which it is impossible to comprehend and understand one another; and the graphic sign that connotes the conference is the precise transcription of this concept: the title ‘translated’ into signs, derived from the visual alphabet designed for the visual identity of the UID since 2017. There are many topics which refer to three macro sessions: - Witnessing (signs and history) - Communicating (signs and semiotics) - Experimenting (signs and sciences) Thanks to the different points of view, an exceptional resource of our disciplinary area, we want to try to outline the prevailing theoretical-operational synergies, the collaborative lines of an instrumental nature, the recent updates of the repertoires of images that attest and nourish the relations among representation, history, semiotics, sciences