...directly impacting the users' well-being and enriching the human experience within urban landscapes.
With the development of wearable technology and responsive architecture, this thesis explores how this relationship can manifest into the built environment to enhance the user's experiences of the perceived spaces. Manifesting this relationship, this project seeks to foster a symbiotic connection between individuals and their surroundings, thus directly impacting the users' well-being and enriching the human experience within urban landscapes.
TOOLS
• Fitbit
• Heartrate
• Steps
• Blood Pressure
• Skin Temp
• Exercise Performance
• Display
• Open-Source API
• WHOOP Band
• Heartrate
• Blood O2
• Stress Monitoring
• Strain
• Sleep Monitoring
• "Recovery" Data
• Open-Source API
SENSORY ENGAGEMENT
BASIC SENSES:
• VISUAL
• Light
• Projections
• Reflections
• refractions
• SOUND
• Acoustic elements
▪ Vibrations
▪ Sound dulling
▪ Water features
• TACTILE
• Textures
• Floor Variation
• Natural Elements
▪ Plants w/varying Textures
▪ Water features?
• Tactile art
▪ INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS
• Surface Finishes
▪ Soft/hard contrasts
• SMELL
• Natural elements like plant
• TASTE
VISCERAL SENSES:
• ProprioEmotional Responses to Multisensory Environmental
• Stimuliception: awareness of body position and movement
• Interoception: perception of internal body signals like hunger and thirst
• Thermoception: sense of temperature
• Equilibrioception: sense of balance
Limbic System Stimuli:
• AmygdalaAnger/violence , fear/anxiety
o Strobe?
o Auditorial suspense music?
• Hypothalamus-
APPLICATION
High Stress Environments:
• Transportation Hub
• Prisons
• Office Spaces/Workspaces
• Education spaces
Medical Centers
• Hospitals
• Rehabs
• Mental Health clinics
• Retirement Centers
Are Airports Stressful?
Site: LAX
Biometrics in Airports
•"The International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) 2021 global passenger survey showed that 73% of passengers were willing to share their biometric data to improve airport processes (up from 46% in 2019)." -Five airport innovations making travel easier in 2023 - AeroTime
•"According to the Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques (SITA) 2021 Air Transport IT Insights, nearly a quarter of airports worldwide had begun to invest in biometric solutions and airline investment in biometric boarding is expected to rise 60% by 2024." -Five airport innovations making travel easier in 2023 - AeroTime
tsa_biometrics_roadmap.pdf
TSA & Biometric Infrastructure
In order to make its biometric vision a reality, TSA will adopt a set of overarching core principles, informed by stakeholder feedback, to guide the implementation of the strategic goals and objectives.
tsa_biometrics_roadmap.pdf
Shopping Areas
• "A 2017 study carried out by the University of Southern Mississippi showed that emotions are involved when people shop at airports. Leisure travelers often feel happy and buy souvenirs to share with friends back home and also to give themselves a reminder of their holiday." -Five airport innovations making travel easier in 2023 - AeroTime
• "Shoppers receive a special Chanel boarding card..."
Future Of Shopping in Airports
"Rubrus" Zone
Overwhelmed
Security
• tsa_biometrics_roadmap.pdf
• Automated Screen Lanes (ASLs)
• Immersive Environments
o Security creates an immersive environment
• Biometric data integration
• Personalized Experience through immersive scanners
o Age/language/culture
o Location destination integration
o Stress ie, breathing exercises etc
• Efficient scanning
o Stage scanning: shoe scanners, touchless luggage scanners, automatic bin return, body
immersive "non-invasive unit", Exit.
o AI detection systems
• Adaptive pacing based of volume.
INTEGRATED USES
• "Faster" check TSA
• Security integration with policing drones
• Directed AD correlated with mood, lights and surroundings..
• Gate Orientation
o Guidance
o Updates
o Localized Announcement
o Convenient system activations
▪ Escalators
▪ Moving walkways
▪ Automatic doors
*Cross API with Social media data to help program user aesthetics from social media "likes"?*
Concourse 0 Onsite
Concourse 0- LAXi Intervention
Working Example
Engagement+Data+Code// Visuals
API FitBit callbacks based on users self preferences
# Get this token from requesting in browser ACCESS_TOKEN = "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJhdWQiOiIyM1JZVEsiLCJzdWIiOiJCVzNNVzQiLCJpc3MiOiJGaXRiaXQiLCJ0eXAiOiJhY2Nlc3NfdG9rZW4iLCJzY29wZXMiOiJyc29jIHJlY2cgcnNldCByb3h5IHJudXQgcnBybyByc2xlIHJjZiByYWN0IHJyZXMgcmxvYyByd2VpIHJ ociBydGVtIiwiZXhwIjoxNzE3MDQyODE2LCJpYXQiOjE3MTcwMTQwMTZ9.t7oGBfm-n9zzt92qh5PDY9VeJ_NBgpR_0iBT_poOs_I"
def get_heart_rate_values(response): data = response.json() return [heart_rate['value'] for heart_rate in data['activities-heart-intraday']['dataset']] def main(): header = get_header(ACCESS_TOKEN) response = requests.get("https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/-/activities/heart/date/today/1d.json", headers=header) if response.status_code == 200: heart_rate_values = get_heart_rate_values(response) mood = determine_mood(heart_rate_values) print(f"Determined Mood: {mood}") color = get_color_for_mood(mood) print(f"Assigned Color: {color}") else: print("Failed to retrieve data from Fitbit API")
if __name__ == "__main__": main()
Compiled Video Side 1 Human Engagement
Compiled Video Side 2
Diffusion
Installation Ideas
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