[DOC] Prud'hon: Drawings 85 Colour Plates by Maria Peitcheva at Arts-Photography

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The relationship of humans to computers can no longer be represented as one person in a chair and one computer on a desk. Today computing finds its way into our pockets; our cars; our appliances; it is ubiquitous -- an inescapable part of our everyday lives. Computing is even expanding beyond our devices; sensors; microcontrollers; and actuators are increasingly embedded into the built environment. In Architectural Robotics; Keith Evan Green looks toward the next frontier in computing: interactive; partly intelligent; meticulously designed physical environments. Green examines how these "architectural robotic" systems will support and augment us at work; school; and home; as we roam; interconnect; and age.Green tells the stories of three projects from his research lab that exemplify the reconfigurable; distributed; and transfigurable environments of architectural robotics. The Animated Work Environment is a robotic work environment of shape-shifting physical space that responds dynamically to the working life of the people within it; home+ is a suite of networked; distributed "robotic furnishings" integrated into existing domestic and healthcare environments; and LIT ROOM offers a simulated environment in which the physical space of a room merges with the imaginary space of a book; becoming "a portal to elsewhere."How far beyond workstations; furniture; and rooms can the environments of architectural robotics stretch? Green imagines scaled-up neighborhoods; villages; and metropolises composed of physical bits; digital bytes; living things; and their hybrids. Not global but local; architectural robotics grounds computing in a capacious cyber-physical home.