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Portable Architecture : Design and Technology
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ISBN: 3764383240 129986449X 9783764383244 9783764383220 3764383259 9783764383251 3764383224 Year: 2008 Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel

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Since the earliest people lived as nomads, their buildings were portable, constructed in a way that allowed them to be rebuilt as they moved to new locations for better living conditions as the seasons changed. This book discusses the forerunners, present context, and technology of portable architecture. It documents numerous international examples, organized by areas of application, and offers a broad array of suggestions for practical design. In the Arts and Culture section, Shigeru Ban’s Nomadic Museum, made of shipping containers in the USA and Japan is examined, as is Mark Fisher’s event architecture for concert tours by the Rolling Stones and U2. Suggestions for flexible living include Richard Horden’s micro compact home and the Container Home Kit from LOT/EK. The design of mobile structures used in extreme situations, such as the Antarctic or in the aftermath of natural catastrophes, is explored. Exhibition and entertainment facilities are other typical areas of application for light, mobile structures. Demountable, temporary structures allow for exciting architectural experimentation which can then be prototyped for regular use.


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Smart Homes and Health Telematics : 6th International Conference, ICOST 2008 Ames, IA, USA, June 28th July 2, 2008, Proceedings
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ISBN: 9783540699149 3540699147 3540699163 Year: 2008 Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference On Smart Homes and and Health Telematics, ICOST 2008, held in Ames, IA, USA, in June/July 2008. The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on assistive technology to improve quality of life for older adults and their caregivers; context awareness/autonomous computing; devices, systems and algorithms for vision/hearing/cognitive/communication impairments; home health monitoring and intervention; human-machine interface and ambient intelligence; modeling of physical and conceptual information in intelligent environments; real world deployments and experiences in smart homes, hospitals, and living communities; and social/privacy/security issues.

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Self-help devices for people with disabilities --- Home automation --- Medical telematics --- Older people --- Congresses. --- Home care --- Technological innovations --- Aged --- Housing for the Elderly --- Telemedicine --- User-Computer Interface --- Home Care Services --- Disabled Persons --- Housing --- Medicine --- Telecommunications --- Adult --- Persons --- Software --- Nursing Services --- Community Health Services --- Delivery of Health Care --- Communications Media --- Named Groups --- Computing Methodologies --- Health Services --- Patient Care Management --- Environment, Controlled --- Age Groups --- Residence Characteristics --- Health Occupations --- Information Science --- Environment --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Health Services Administration --- Demography --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Population Characteristics --- Health Care --- Environment and Public Health --- Electrical & Computer Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Information Technology --- Computer Science (Hardware & Networks) --- Dwellings --- Smart homes --- Automation --- Computer science. --- Computer communication systems. --- Special purpose computers. --- Data mining. --- Application software. --- Computers and civilization. --- Computer Science. --- Computer Communication Networks. --- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. --- Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems. --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). --- Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences. --- Computers and Society. --- Civilization and computers --- Civilization --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software --- Algorithmic knowledge discovery --- Factual data analysis --- KDD (Information retrieval) --- Knowledge discovery in data --- Knowledge discovery in databases --- Mining, Data --- Database searching --- Special purpose computers --- Computers --- Communication systems, Computer --- Computer communication systems --- Data networks, Computer --- ECNs (Electronic communication networks) --- Electronic communication networks --- Networks, Computer --- Teleprocessing networks --- Data transmission systems --- Digital communications --- Electronic systems --- Information networks --- Telecommunication --- Cyberinfrastructure --- Electronic data processing --- Network computers --- Informatics --- Science --- Distributed processing --- Electronic control --- Household electronics --- Intelligent buildings --- Software engineering. --- Social sciences --- Data processing. --- Computer software engineering --- Engineering

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