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Discrete crowd behavior in architectural spaces

This research has established robust crowd behavior observation and simulation systems but lacks feedback mechanisms to physical space, creating an incomplete cyber-physical loop. Current architectural interventions—movable walls, robotic partitions, digital signage, and billboards—demonstrate technical capabilities but suffer from overt control, scripted behaviors, limited social affordance, and heavy infrastructure requirements. This creates an opportunity to develop more empathetic, socially literate interventions that signal and invite rather than instruct and impose.

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Department of Architecture, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo

Architectural Informatics Laboratory

Yasushi Ikeda Lab

 

yasushi[at]arch1.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp

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