Smart Workspaces To Improve Well-being & Productivity
“We envision an unprecedented intelligent workplace – one that can co-evolve with its users to bring their preferences in line with the healthiest practices. We expect this system will represent an apparent advance in the ability for intelligent machines to collaborate with their users.”
— DR. BURÇIN BECERIK-GERBER
ARUP Research and USC Collaboration on Smart Workspaces
Sentient Offices
Are You Ready for Office Buildings With Alexa-Like Personalities?
April 24, 2018
S.C. Stuart
Intelligent Buildings That Help Save Your Life
Video: Researchers Use Active Shooter Simulator to Design Safer Schools
November 21, 2019
Lolita Lopez
“We’re interested in looking at how different building attributes affect responses to incidents of extreme violence, and that’s something that we can’t manipulate easily in the real world, but in virtual reality all of that is possible and it’s possible safe and ethically”
— GALE LUCAS
Work From Home And Health & Productivity
December 10, 2020
Denise Mann
November, 2020
“Viterbi vs. Pandemics” Lecture 11: Environmental Influences on Work from Home
November 24, 2020
Avni Shah
Vr To Build Trust Between Construction Workers And Construction Robots
“There is fear that automation will replace construction jobs. I don’t think construction workers are going to be obsolete, but they have to quickly figure out how to work with the technology and how to upskill.”
— DR. BURÇIN BECERIK-GERBER
Energy Efficient Smart Buildings
Using Cell Phones to Negotiate Energy-Efficient Settings in Office Buildings
August 22, 2012
Peter Fairley
Burcin Becerik-Gerber and Smart Homes
Meet Ellie: Your Virtual Building Assistant
Ellie is a virtual-reality program called SimSensei, launched by USC researchers with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The aim is to coax people who might be reluctant to share emotions with another human to tell (Ellie) a machine.
Ai To Augment Health Via Virtual Therapists
Building Automation Can Get Personal But What About Privacy?
May 7, 2019
Brian Buntz
Building Interactive Environments
Adaptive Buildings
“I would like to see buildings with personalities, and buildings that work with you towards the shared goals that you and the building might have.”
— DR. BURÇIN BECERIK-GERBER
