Sailer, Kerstin, Budgen, Andrew, Lonsdale, Nathan, Turner, Alasdair, Penn, Alan
Evidence-based design is a practice that has emerged only relatively recently, inspired by a growing popularity of evidence-based approaches in other professions such as medicine. It has received...
Manufacturing Initiative (2008)
John Kelsey, Graham M Winch, Alan Penn, John Kelsey, Graham M Winch, Alan Penn
this paper the work of construction planners is considered with a view to discovering: • how planning is undertaken generally • how spatial planning is undertaken in particular • what type of...
LINE-OF-SIGHT PEDESTRIAN MICROSIMULATION IN URBAN SYSTEMS Paper 210 (2008)
Alasdair Turner, Chiron Mottram, Alan Penn
Abstract: In order to move away from more formal route-choice models and to avoid calibration issues, visually guided agent-based models have recently been introduced to microscopic urban models of...
Evolving Direct Perception Models of Human Behavior in Building Systems ⋆ (2008)
Abstract. Software agents that use direct (or active) perception of the environment have recently been shown to correspond well with pedestrian movement within building and urban systems. The...
Holger Schnädelbach, Alan Penn, Phil Steadman, Steve Benford, Boriana Koleva, Tom Rodden
Mixed Reality Architecture (MRA) supports distributed teams in their everyday work activities by linking multiple physical spaces across a shared three-dimensional virtual world. User configurable...
APPLICATIONS]: Communications Applications--- Computer (2008)
Holger Schnädelbach, Alan Penn, Phil Steadman, Steve Benford, Boriana Koleva, Tom Rodden
Mixed Reality Architecture (MRA) supports distributed teams in their everyday work activities by linking multiple physical spaces across a shared three-dimensional virtual world. User configurable...
Mixed Reality Architecture: initial experiences (2008)
Holger Schnädelbach, Alan Penn, Boriana Koleva, Danaë Stanton, Tony Glover, Steve Benford
Abstract. In this paper, we describe our initial experiences with Mixed Reality Architecture (MRA) in use in an everyday office setting. Two offices and one meeting space were dynamically linked...
Intelligent Architecture: User Interface Design To Elicit Knowledge Models (2008)
Alan Penn, Ruth Conroy, Nick Dalton, Laura Dekker, Chiron Mottram, Alasdair Turner
Much of the difficulty in architectural design is in integrating and making explicit the knowledge of the many converging disciplines (engineering, sociology, ergonomics and psychology, to name a...
Vassilis Kostakos, Tim Kindberg, Alan Penn, Danaë Stanton Fraser, Tim Jones
Abstract. We approach the design of ubiquitous computing systems in the urban environment as integral to urban design. To understand the city as a system encompassing physical and digital forms and...
DOI:10.1068/b31097 An algorithmic definition of the axial map (2004)
Alasdair Turner, Alan Penn, Bill Hillier
Abstract. The fewest-line axial map, often simply referred to as the `axial map', is one of the primary tools of space syntax. Its natural language definition has allowed researchers to draw...
Scaling universality in the micro-structure of urban space, Physica A 332 (2004)
Rui Carvalho, Shinichi Iida, Alan Penn
We present a broad, phenomenological picture of the distribution of the length of urban linear segments, l, derived from maps of 36 cities in 14 different countries. By scaling the Zipf plot of l, we...
B.: Mixed reality architecture: Concept, construction, use (2003)
Holger Schnädelbach, Alan Penn, Steve Benford, Boriana Koleva
Mixed Reality Architecture (MRA) dynamically links and overlays physical and virtual spaces. This paper investigates the topology of and the relationships between the components of MRA. As a...
B.: Mixed reality architecture: Concept, construction, use (2003)
Holger Schnädelbach, Alan Penn, Steve Benford, Boriana Koleva
Mixed Reality Architecture (MRA) dynamically links and overlays physical and virtual spaces. This paper investigates the topology of and the relationships between the components of MRA. As a...
DOI:10.1068/b3019a Rejoinder to Carlo Ratti (2003)
Abstract. In this rejoinder, we answer questions about space syntax raised in Carlo Ratti's paper ``Urban texture and space syntax: some inconsistencies'', and discuss theoretical...
Encoding natural movement as an agent-based system: an investigation into human pedestrian behaviour in the built environment
Space syntax based agent simulation (2001)
Space syntax derives from a set of analytic measures of configuration that have been shown to correlate well with how people move through and use buildings and urban environments. Space syntax...
Alasdair Turner, David Chapman, Alan Penn
In this paper we present a sketch modelling system which we call Stilton. The program resembles a desktop VRML browser, allowing a user to navigate a 3D model in a perspective projection, or...
analysis of architectural space (2000)
Alasdair Turner, Maria Doxa, Alan Penn
From isovists to visibility graphs: a methodology for the
Making Isovists Syntactic: Isovist Integration Analysis (1999)
Isovists and isovist fields are of interest to space syntax in that they offer a way of addressing the relationship between the viewer and their immediate spatial environment, however, in the form...
Alan Penn, Nick Dalton, Laura Dekker, Chiron Mottram, Meyer Nigri
The most difficult problems in architecture occur on the boundaries between different disciplines where solutions to problems in one domain create problems in others. These interdomain problems are...
Intelligent Architecture: User interface design to elicit knowledge models (1995)
Alan Penn, Ruth Conroy, Nick Dalton, Laura Dekker, Chiron Mottram
Much of the difficulty in architectural design is in integrating and making explicit the knowledge of the many converging disciplines (engineering, sociology, ergonomics and psychology, to name a...