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Human inactivity has been associated with the incidence of a number of health conditions and chronic diseases, while our increasing energy consumption is a well-documented problem. A Personal Energy Meter might help identify areas for improvement in our lifestyles that would benefit both our personal health and the global environment. As one strand of this, we explore the possibility of estimating...
Emergency evacuation of office buildings, in the event of a life-threatening situation such as a fire incident, is a function of various factors ranging from architectural to socio-behavioral ones. We show how individual-based modeling approaches such as molecular dynamics can be coupled with behavioral responses in panic situations, in order to quantify in a systematic way the impact of human familiarity...
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