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Human needs vs. modern living expectations: a case for daylight access

Natural light greatly impacts how a building is experienced by its occupants. It affects their well-being, notably from their health and biological clock perspectives, but also their perceived visual and thermal comfort, or their emotional response. If we ...

2023

Rethinking walkability: Exploring the relationship between urban form and neighborhood social cohesion

Andrew James Sonta

Recent research has investigated the importance of both walkable urban design and social cohesion. Social cohesion has been shown to have broad social and health benefits, and scholars have hypothesized that walkable urban design can influence cohesion, th ...

2023

Carbon budgets at the component scale and their impacts on design choices: the façade as a case study

Marilyne Andersen, Nazanin Rezaei Oghazi, Thomas Bernard Paul Jusselme

In accordance with the Paris agreement, the Swiss Climate Strategy (SCS) defines the net-zero target to be reached before 2050, which demands for a thoughtful carbon budget allocation between the different contributors. Ongoing normalization tasks are curr ...

2023

How to Decarbonize Our Energy Systems: Process-Informed Design of New Materials for Carbon Capture

Berend Smit, Susana Garcia Lopez

Decarbonisation from a variety of industrial and power emission sectors highlights a marked need for capture technologies that can be optimized for different CO2 sources and integrated into an equally diverse range of applications of captured CO2 as a feed ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

A multi-material robotic finger with integrated proprioceptive and tactile capabilities produced with a circular process

Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes, Kai Christian Junge, Antonia Georgopoulou Papadonikolaki

When developing or designing biomimetic robotic fingers with rigid and soft components and integrated sensors, fabrication is often a bottle-neck when assembling and casting processing techniques are used. This study introduces a thermoplastic multi-materi ...

IEEE2023

Laser-Induced Graphene on Chitosan: An Enabling Technology for Sustainable Resistive Humidity Sensors

Sandro Carrara, Johanna Zikulnig

The development and characterization of resistive humidity sensors based on Chitosan on a glass substrate is reported. The sensor electrodes are made of laser-induced graphene derived from Chitosan, which represents a sustainability advancement by eliminat ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

FROM GROUP WORK TO TEAM WORK: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS IN THREE EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS

Stéphane Perrin

Addressing the complex challenges of sustainability demands for good teamwork abilities for future technicians and engineers. In our three institutions we adopted project-based learning to facilitate the development of these skills – but is this enough? Si ...

2023

Generalizing Bulk-Synchronous Parallel Processing for Data Science: From Data to Threads and Agent-Based Simulations

Christoph Koch, Peter Lindner, Zilu Tian, Val Tannen

We generalize the bulk-synchronous parallel (BSP) processing model to make it better support agent-based simulations. Such simulations frequently exhibit hierarchical structure in their communication patterns which can be exploited to improve performance. ...

2023

Dynamism in the context of views out: A literature review

Marilyne Andersen, Caroline Karmann, Yunjoung Cho

Previous studies have shown that access to a satisfactory view to the outside with sufficient daylight is essential for building occupants' health and well-being. It has also been suggested that certain features of visual content improve view-out quality, ...

2023

Régénération des friches urbaines

Martine Laprise

Dans le cadre du projet interreg Italie-Suisse RiCoNET «Régénération territoriale et coopération pour la gouvernance transfrontalière», organisé par l’Institut Tourisme HES-SO en collaboration avec IUSEFOR Turin, Dr. Martine Laprise était invitée à présent ...

2022

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