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Biocca, Luigi
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Morini, Annalisa
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Christophersen, Jon
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IAHS World Congress on Housing (33rd : 2005 : Pretoria, South Africa) |
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2009-06-04T07:38:06Z |
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2009-06-04T07:38:06Z |
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2005-09 |
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Authors of papers in the proceedings and CD-ROM ceded copyright to the IAHS and UP. Authors furthermore declare that papers are their original work, not previously published and take responsibility for copyrighted excerpts from other works, included in their papers with due acknowledgment in the written manuscript. Furthermore, that papers describe genuine research or review work, contain no defamatory or unlawful statements and do not infringe the rights of others. The IAHS and UP may assign any or all of its rights and obligations under this agreement. |
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Paper presented at the XXXIII IAHS World Congress on Housing, 27-30 September 2005,"Transforming Housing Environments through Design", University of Pretoria. |
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Nowadays the need to create a better quality of life for citizens involves a wide variety of built environments: a responsive design can enhance everyday life at home, at the office and everywhere else as well as improve the interface in terms of making the environment more comfortable and easier to use. Accessibility is therefore one of the first concepts we must take into account when designing an environment, not only because we agree with Universal Design principles or because norms and regulations require us to do so in some countries, but because it is more economic. To add a new element or to think of changing a design in a second phase, when the building is already built, is always more expensive. Moreover, our belief is that accessibility and usability inherent in good design can be further supplemented by customized and affordable user-friendly basic packages. Our major research concern is to blend the requirements for comfortable environments and for supporting daily life, as shown through the following goals:
- a responsive design;
- an accessible design;
- an affordable and effective design ;
- a technological and user-friendly environment.
We will show some outstanding examples which we believe to be blending good responses both on the design side and the technological equipment, so that any kind of citizen or user can really feel that the environment is familiar to his/her lifestyle’s activities. |
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Presentation consists of 9 pages. |
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This paper was transformed from the original CD ROM created for this conference. The material on the CD ROM was published using Adobe Acrobat technology. |
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Biocca, L, Morini, A & Christophersen, J 2005, 'Designing integrated environments by combining accessibility and new technologies', paper presented at XXXIII IAHS World Congress on Housing 2005 - Transforming Housing Environments through Design (HUE), University of Pretoria. |
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1-86854-627-6 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/2263/10338 |
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en |
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IAHS |
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Copyright shared by:
International Association for Housing Science, Coral Gables/Miami, Florida 33134, USA
University of Pretoria (UP), Hillcrest, Pretoria 0002, South Africa |
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Accessibility |
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Usability |
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Affordable |
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User-friendly |
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Integrated environments |
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Housing developers -- Congresses |
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House construction -- Economic aspects -- Congresses |
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Architecture, Domestic -- Designs and plans -- Congresses |
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Human comfort -- Congresses |
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Quality of life -- Congresses |
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Architecture -- Technological innovations -- Congresses |
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City planning -- Environmental aspects -- Congresses |
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Designing integrated environments by combining accessibility and new technologies |
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Event |
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Presentation |
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