Designing a Multi-Agent Occupant Simulation System To Support Facility Planning And Analysis For COVID-19
ACM Designing Interactive Systems 2021
Summary

• The COVID-19 pandemic changed our lives, forcing us to reconsider our built environment, architectural designs, and even behaviours.

• However, systems to effectively and interactively evaluate virus transmission in physical spaces are lacking.

• To help fill this gap, we propose OccSim, a system that automatically generates occupancy behaviours in a 3D model of a building and helps users analyze the potential effect of virus transmission from a large-scale and longitudinal perspective.

• Our participatory evaluation with four groups of stakeholders revealed that OccSim could enhance their decision making processes by identifying specific risks of virus transmission in advance, and illuminating how each risk relates to complex human-building interactions.

Researcher
Bokyung Lee, Michael Lee, Jeremy Mogk, Rhys Goldstein, Jacky Bibliowicz, Frederik Brudy, Alexander Tessier.
Keywords
simulation-driven design, virtual human with agency, digital human
title: Designing A Multi-Agent Occupant Simulation System To Support Facility Planning And Analysis For COVID-19
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The COVID-19 pandemic added new dimensions to an already complex design problem. Designers and building facility managers now need to consider the risk of virus transmission via surfaces and air circulation within the built environment.

Then, how can we provide decision-makers and designers with the ability to analyze their decisions within the context of relevant human-building interactions and their relationships to potential virus spread?

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