Author:
Takai Kazuma,Roy Debopriyo
Abstract
This project is focused on developing smart health infrastructure with simulations of a smart hospital physical environment. The focus of the project is exclusively on “the physical architecture of a smart hospital”. The project is driven by the motivation to develop preliminary amateur simulations of smart environments for a hospital setting that could potentially help planners develop an understanding of how to develop the current infrastructure. Today's world is rapidly evolving and with expanding research on smart city digital environments, but smartification of physical hospital infrastructure is significant and part of the entire development of a smart environment in hospitals or in any smart environment. Further, such implementation is extremely important in small towns and in less developed economies. As the population grows or the need for more specialized treatment rises, the demand for medical services is increasing rapidly. The goal of this study is to develop quick simulated environment landscapes towards making a few productive suggestions that could potentially lead to developing a smart environment in a specific Aizu-area hospital (as a case study). In this context, the physical architecture of the selected zones in Takeda hospital will be further investigated. The focus of the project is not architecture or smart interior designing, but the efficacy of quick video simulations in generating basic ideas and collecting quick feedback, and thus, ability to use the software called Google Sketch-up productively and use it to run basic usability studies to explore how citizens react to such video simulations, and what they think to be lacking in such quick simulation videos. In other words, the idea is to learn the impact of video simulations as stimuli in helping citizens to generate more ideas about their needs in a hospital environment, and then communicate the same with architects and/or city planners as the next step.
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