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CoPRA: a Design Exemplar for Habitable, Cyber-physical Environment

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This paper introduces the concept of "Compressed-Pattern, Robotic Architecture" (CoPRA), a design exemplar for purposeful, inhabitable, intelligent physical environments, spatially reconfigured by means of robotics. CoPRA is inspired by Christopher Alexander's notion of a "Compressed-Pattern Architecture," in which a single living space is reorganized to become many different, functional rooms. In our exemplar, however, this reorganization is not performed by inhabitants manually, but instead by robotics actuated in response to human activity. CoPRA represents a productive conceptual model for a growing research community within CHI focused at the interface of architectural design and embedded systems.

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CHI EA '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
May 2016
3954 pages
ISBN:9781450340823
DOI:10.1145/2851581
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  1. cyber-physical systems
  2. design theory
  3. interaction design
  4. robotics

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