Seminar

Analyzing Human—Building Interactions in Virtual Environments using Crowd Simulations

Analyzing Human—Building Interactions in Virtual Environments using Crowd Simulations
IMG - Analyzing Human—Building Interactions in Virtual Environments using Crowd Simulations
About this Event

In this topic, the speaker will talk about the relationship between human occupancy and environment designs by means of human behavior simulations. Predicting and analyzing user-related factors during environment design is of vital importance. Traditional Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools mostly represent geometric and semantic aspects of environment components (e.g., walls, pillars, doors, ramps, and floors). They often ignore the impact that an environment layout produces on its occupants and their movements. In recent efforts to analyze human social and spatial behaviors in buildings, researchers have started using crowd simulation techniques for dynamic analysis of urban and indoor environments. These analyses assist the designers in analyzing crowd-related factors in their designs and generating human-aware environments. This talk focuses on the development of interactive solutions to perform spatial analytics that can quantify the dynamics of human-building interactions using crowd simulations in virtual and built environments, and to make these dynamic crowd analytics solutions available to designers either directly within mainstream environment design pipelines or as cross-platform simulation services, enabling users to seamlessly simulate, analyze, and incorporate human-centric dynamics into their design workflows.


Speaker
Muhammad Usman

Dr. Muhammad Usman

Assistant Professor

Information and Computer Science Department - KFUPM

Dr. Usman is an assistant professor in the department of information and computer science at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. He received his Ph.D. degree (2020) and MSc degree (2016) in computer science from York University, Toronto, Canada. His research interests include crowd simulation and modeling, human-centered artificial intelligence (AI), crowd behavior dynamics, architectural design analysis and optimization, spatial visualizations, and virtual reality.

Date
Tuesday - September 20, 2022
Time
3:15 PM (KSA Time GMT+3)
Organized by:
Architecture Department
Location:
Building #19 - Third Floor - auditorium