People, Personal Data and the Built Environment

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   • Holger Schnädelbach, David Kirk

   Pages 1-11

3. On the Temporality of Adaptive Built Environments

   • Hamed S. Alavi, Himanshu Verma, Jakub Mlynar, Denis Lalanne

   Pages 13-40

4. WABI: Facilitating Synchrony Between Inhabitants of Adaptive Architecture

   • Nils Jäger, Holger Schnädelbach, Jonathan Hale, David Kirk, Kevin Glover

   Pages 41-75

5. Millennial Nomads, Uberization and Semi-autonomous Pods

   • Roxana Karam

   Pages 77-102

6. Interactive Interior Design and Personal Data

   • Sara Nabil, David Kirk

   Pages 103-122

7. Sensing Data in the Home

   • Chris Speed, Ewa Luger

   Pages 123-142

8. Narrative Interactions

   • Peter James Baldwin

   Pages 143-162

9. Designing an Intervention for Creating Awareness in Motorists About Vehicle Emission Consequences on Human Health

   • Antti Jylhä, Ismael Harraou, Arnold Jan Quanjer, Jos van Leeuwen

   Pages 163-184

10. Consumption Data in the Built Environment: A Concept Study Using Social Translucence Theory

    • Mary Barreto

    Pages 185-204

11. Walking with Media: Towards a Mixed Reality Pedagogy in University Learning Environments

    • David Rousell

    Pages 205-229

Personal data is increasingly important in our lives. We use personal data to quantify our behaviour, through health apps or for 'personal branding' and we are also increasingly forced to part with our data to access services. With the proliferation of embedded sensors, the built environment is playing a key role in this developing use of data, even though this remains relatively hidden. Buildings are sites for the capture of personal data. This data is used to adapt buildings to people's behaviour, and increasingly, organisations use this data to understand how buildings are occupied and how communities develop within them. A whole host of technical, practical, social and ethical challenges emerge from this still developing area across interior, architectural and urban design, and many open questions remain.

This book makes a contribution to this on-going discourse by bringing together a community of researchers interested in personal informatics and the design of interactive buildings and environments. The book’s aim is to foster critical discussion about the future role of personal data in interactions with the built environment.


People, Personal Data and the Built Environment is ideal for researchers and practitioners interested in Architecture, Computer Science and Human Building Interaction.

• personal data
• adaptive architecture
• user experience
• built environment
• social computing
• autonomous vehicles

• Mixed Reality Laboratory, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

  Holger Schnädelbach

• Department of Computer and Information Science, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

  David Kirk

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