Robots are becoming interactive and robust enough to be adopted outside laboratories and
in industrial scenarios as well as interacting with humans in social activities. However, the …

Internet-of-Things has reshaped the way people interact with their surroundings and
automatize the once manual actions. In a smart home, controlling the Internet-connected …

Internet-of-Things systems are comprised of highly heterogeneous architectures, where
different protocols, application stacks, integration services, and orchestration engines co …

Algorithmic Design is an approach that uses algorithms to generate designs. These
algorithms are built using either a Visual Programming Language (VPL) or a Textual …

Internet-of-Things has reshaped the way people interact with their surroundings. In a smart
home, controlling the lights is as simple as speaking to a conversational assistant since …

Virtual reality has been shown to facilitate perception and navigation inside 3D models,
while stimulating creativity and enhancing architect/client interaction. In this scenario, in …

A long-standing challenge in end-user programming (EUP) is to trade off between natural
user expression and the complexity of programming tasks. As large language models …

In the last few decades, architecture has experienced paradigm shifts prompted by new
computational tools. Algorithmic design (AD), a design approach based on algorithms, is …

Coordinating aesthetics and performance is critical in building design, but it requires
information that is rarely available in early design stages. This scenario is further aggravated …

A platform for experimenting with population-based design exploration algorithms is
presented, called Dexen. The platform has been developed in order to address the needs of …