This article presents a rigorous simulation-based optimization framework that enables concurrent and consistent decisionmaking in building design. Analytical Target Cascading (ATC), a multi-level engineering design optimization framework, is extended to thermal and HVAC design in buildings. The framework facilitates computational decision support for meeting building performance goals, allows a...

This study takes a design-based research approach to explore how applications designed for mobile devices could support reflection in learning in K-12 education. Use of mobile devices is increasing in schools. Most of the educational apps support single-person use of interactive learning materials, simulations and learning games. Apps designed to correspond to collaborative learning paradigms, ...

The author and associated researchers have in previous projects adapted videogame technology for design in the context of architectural design education. This paper reflects on this body of research: the original motivations and aspirations; what threads may be productively revisited; how contemporary shifts to parametric design and building information modelling may be incorporated; and consid...

Existing homes for senior population may not be safe because many injuries occur due to poor accessibility and design compatibility. Thus, Universal Design (UD) becomes more relevant, especially if it incorporates the principles of sustainability. Yet, adopting houses of this type requires detailed evaluation of their costs and benefits in a simple and efficient manner. The Building Information...

This paper extends theories of control as an organization design tool and empirically explores the efficacy of delegation technologies in providing the equivalent of social (clan) control for effort-averse agents engaged in low programmable, low outcome measurement task environments. The exploratory evaluation of delegation technologies suggests new control alternatives that are trust building ...

The domain wall fermions (DWF) formalism[1][2] uses an extra space-time dimension to separate the chiral limit from the continuum limit. In this paper, we report a study of the hadron spectrum obtained from both quenched and dynamical DWF. Our conventions are: mf is the 4-d bare quark mass that explicitly mixes the two chiralities on the domain walls, Ls is the extent of lattice in the fifth di...