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Embodied Interactions with Adaptive Architecture

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We discuss increasingly behaviour-responsive adaptive architecture from an embodied point of view. Especially useful in this context is an understanding of embodied cognition called ‘the 4E approach,’ which includes embodied, extended, embedded, and enacted perspectives on embodiment. We argue that these four characteristics of cognition both apply to and explain the bodily interactions between inhabitants and their adaptive environments. However, a new class of adaptive environments now expands this notion of embodied interactions by introducing environment-initiated behaviours, in addition to purely responsive behaviours. Thus, we consider how these new environments add the dimension of bodily reciprocity to Adaptive Architecture.

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This work was supported by EPSRC Grants EP/P505658/1 and EP/M000877/1 as well as the University of Nottingham via the Nottingham Research Fellowship ‘The Built Environment as the Interface to Personal Data’.

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  1. Mixed Reality Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road, Nottingham, UK

    Nils Jäger & Holger Schnädelbach

  2. Department of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

    Jonathan Hale

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  1. Dept of Comp Sci & Digi Tech, University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

    Nicholas S. Dalton

  2. Mixed Reality Laboratory,Dep of Comp Sc, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

    Holger Schnädelbach

  3. Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

    Mikael Wiberg

  4. The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, London, United Kingdom

    Tasos Varoudis

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Jäger, N., Schnädelbach, H., Hale, J. (2016). Embodied Interactions with Adaptive Architecture. In: Dalton, N., Schnädelbach, H., Wiberg, M., Varoudis, T. (eds) Architecture and Interaction. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30028-3_9

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