Intelligent spaces: Effects of pervasive environments on the role of interior designer

Abstract

Intelligent spaces are rooms or areas that are embedded with sensors and actuators which enable the spaces to perceive and understand what is happening in them. Through an increasing number of computers and wireless communication technologies networked them, these spaces have the ability of receiving the parameters of physical world which users exist in their relevant context, analysing and processing the data with the interfaces between the physical and digital world, and react or change their mode and augment the human functionality, on time. Integration of computer and physical space results a space which have the computer's thinking ability. Due to the space having intelligence, sensors and the capability to communicate, definitions are not the same as in usual space. Pervasive computing is transforming interior spaces by allowing utilities, goods and information to appear dynamically where and when they are needed. Also, we are face with the space that can understand what is happening inside and outside it and which is not passive to the changing environmental situations. Intelligent interiors can become immersive sensory environments that combine the advantages of automation and modern technology with sensory feedback and materiality. The advances in hardware, system design, and software made enable to achieve this vision. In this world, physical objects and spaces are linked to the digital world and information about the physical world can be used to support human functionality and experience. In this paper, the vision of intelligent space will be explained and the innovations that helped to realize these spaces will be introduced. The social and psychological impacts of the future technologies while designing interior space will be discussed. The changing way we work and live and interfering boundaries of the space titles were asked by the way of a short questionnaire to the Interior Design Students who have the seminar about Intelligent and Interactive Spaces this semester, so their knowledge about these spaces and computer technologies are enough to comment the questions. This will give us the idea of future’s interior designers’ new role in these environments. These finding will give us a supporting knowledge about intelligent or thinking spaces and their impacts on the roles of interior designers.

Keywords: Intelligent spaces, pervasive environments, interior design education, future vision.