serious games and virtual worlds for smart buildings a new agenda

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serious games and virtual worlds for smart
buildings a new agenda?

dr sara de freitas serious games institute,
university of coventry, uk 14th may, 2008
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summary

• key areas/strengths for games and virtual worlds
  for smart buildings
• structure of the day
• aims of the day
• conclusions

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key areas for smart buildings and serious games
and virtual worlds

• building monitoring for energy savings
  (implenier)
• public policy development, awareness raising and
  involvement (second health)
• user modelling/profiling (sgi-based location
  tracking project)
• virtual/real world tie-ins (dolls house project /
  virtualisation of eden edge)

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case studies smart buildings

• sgi location tracking project
• second health imperial college
• eden edge eden project
• connecting implenier project

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structure of the day

• 1-2pm lunch networking
• 2-2.30pm building control and management (oliver
  goh)
• 2.30-3pm sustainable development and visitor
  education (howard jones jane lewis)
• 3-3.30pm digital presence (roger saunt)
• 3.30-5.30pm breakout sessions (oliver sara)
• 5.30-7pm drinks and networking

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aims of the day

• to begin the process of developing a road map for
  future developments in this area
• to create a collaboration between the key
  partners
• to begin a debate about key issues of developing
  and using smart buildings

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conclusions

• great potential for the medium
• different application areas (training, public
  policy, awareness raising, community health)
• improving building design and controls
  (environmental savings, monitoring, independent
  living)
• need for more empirical evidence
• studies being undertaken to validate efficacy of
  using smart buildings (schools, universities,
  hospitals, retail outlets)
• need to identify the key issues and areas for
  road map
• workshop activities
• need to develop the community to support leading
  edge research and development in the field
• collaborative research and development

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• links
• serious games institute web site, see
  www.seriousgames.org.uk
• learning in immersive worlds report, see
  www.jisc.ac.uk/eli_outcomes.html
• contact dr sara de freitas s.defreitas_at_coventry
  .ac.uk