Adaptive and responsive indoor environments

The Living Link Lab is an NSF-Funded testbed at the University of Virginia (UVA) Cyber-Physical Systems laboratory (Link Lab) for enabling long-term in-situ studies of occupant behavior, cognition, and interactions in a large collaborative environment while monitoring the changes in environmental factors (e.g., changes in temperature, air quality, and humidity) and energy consumption. With occupant-based wearables, automated and interactive mobile robots, and comprehensive building and environment sensors, the testbed will capture several dimensions of variability in human-building interactions that have not been captured in prior research. Additionally, through a developed user interface (UI) system, the consented participants in the Link Lab can access environmental and personal data where they can visually track the changes in their surrounding environment as well as monitor their emotional well-being.