UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM presents "Biofied Building Integrating Sensor Agent Robots" Prof. Akira Mita (Keio University, Japan) 7 September 2011 (Wednesday) Meeting Room B200 Hatfield, College Lane Campus 3-4 pm Everyone is Welcome to Attend Refreshments will be available Abstract: Living matter has adaptive mechanisms that are categorized into four: sensory adaption, adaption by learning, physiological adaption, and evolutionary adaption. Learning from the adaptive mechanisms, we are particularly interested in using robots as moving sensor agents, that we call sensor agent robots, to gather information on building and residents. The sensor agent robots interface the residents and the building along with acquisition of information relevant to activities and environments of residents and building. We call this concept "biofied building" or "biofication of living spaces" and are working to integrate the concept. The lecture introduces some preliminary attempts of the "biofied building" research conducted at our laboratory. Short Bio for Prof. Akira Mita ------------------------------- Akira Mita is the Professor of the Department of System Design Engineering at Keio University. He obtained Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego in 1986. He worked at a large construction company, Shimizu Corporation, for 19 years before joining Keio University. His research interests include sensors, system identification, and structural health monitoring. He recently started a new research project called "Biofied Building". He is the recipient of AIJ Prize from Architectural Institute of Japan in 2009. He has chaired several international conferences on Structural Health Monitoring. --------------------------------------------------- Hertfordshire Computer Science Research Colloquium http://homepages.stca.herts.ac.uk/~nehaniv/colloq