the concept collecgtion about “daylight”

‘Daylight’ Concept

‘Daylight’ – a hotel scenario for the future. The hotel industry is dominated by large chains that provided consistent service, but often lack a personal touch. Luckily, the rise of private, theme-oriented hotels is ushering in a new age of hospitality, one in which guests control virtually every aspect of their stay. New applications of technology will empower customers and provide them with better, more comfortable surroundings in which to relax and re-energize after a long journey. Wouldn’t it be fantastic if travel across time zones was stimulating, rather than draining, fun rather than tiresome? Imagine what it would be like if your hotel was not just a temporary roof over your head, but a journey of the senses. Imagine being able to stimulate your senses with sound, light and imagery, day and night. Imagine a room whose very uniqueness leaves you refreshed, energized and ready for the new day.

Care for Guests
Anxiety and fatigue are major factors in business travel today. Travel stress is such a commonly recognized issue that airlines offer in-flight audio meditation programs. Physicians who specialize in treating travelers say that confusion about date and time, lapses of short-term memory and difficulty sleeping are common symptoms of jetlag. Couple this with the negative emotional impact that lengthy and frequent travel has on many business travelers and it is clear that the health and wellbeing of global travelers on a punishing business schedule is clearly at risk. The hospitality industry needs truly innovative solutions to offer guests the tools they need to customize the ambience, sensory experience and even health-promoting benefits that the hotel room of tomorrow can provide; a room that can be an intelligent oasis of relaxation and revitalization.

Daylight comprises a series of experiential moments designed to help business travelers and tourists alike relax, unwind and re-energize. Natural light is crucial to our wellbeing. ‘Daylight’ invites hotel guests to explore the properties of natural light and shade and create their ideal ambiance using a range of decorative virtual blinds and color gradients. And with ‘Daylight’, if you don’t like the view, you have the power to change it – the light therapy system uses white light to fight off the winter blues and blue light to reduce the effects of jetlag. Guests can enjoy these relaxing light therapy sessions in the comfort and privacy of their hotel rooms.

Key Details – System of 3 interrelated concepts

Daylight Window with Personal Mood Setting -controlling natural and artificial light for a personalized room ambience and enhanced outside views

Wake-up Transition – waking up with natural light and sound at a time of your choosing

Alcove Light Therapy -Artificial light for countering jetlag and raising energy levels

Proposed commercial/consumer uses
A window which offers enhancement and control of the ambient and functional aspects of natural and artificial light. The elements in ‘Daylight’ can be used in many different scenarios such as:

Offices

Hospitals and care centers

Schools

Airport lounges
Sports medicine facilities

Your home

Insight
When traveling across several time zones, your body clock goes out of sync, resulting in what is commonly known as jetlag. Individuals may experience symptoms including loss of appetite, headaches, fatigue, irregular sleep patterns and mild depression. A breakthrough in jetlag prevention emerged when researchers at Chicago’s Northwestern University discovered a third light receptor in the retina that is directly connected to the body clock and which may influence mood and performance. This receptor was found to be more receptive to light at the blue end of the spectrum, so by following a carefully timed program of alternating light and darkness therapy at precisely the times the body clock is most responsive, people are able to adjust more quickly to new time zones. Instead of taking a week or more to adjust after an intercontinental journey, travelers can now fully adapt within just one or two days. With many research programs currently exploring ways to cure or avoid the effects of jetlag, this is the ideal time for airlines and hotels to start adding similar solutions to their service packages, thereby offering their customers the ultimate in rest and relaxation.

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Wouldn’t it make sense if your hotel room was much more than just a temporary roof over your head, but rather an oasis from your journey, a zone of relaxation and revitalization?
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A hotel space should offer a feeling of personal empowerment especially when so much of the travel experience cannot be controlled
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Taking the time to rest mind and body and to appreciate travel as more than just a way to conduct business in a global world

term paper: after web 2.0 and web 3.0, what’s next ?

web 2.0:

creating information rather than developing application

Producer and consumer

Participation and sharing

Including:

1 sharing information

A. social network, called “collective intelligence” (Youtube, Facebook, Dipity, De.licio.us) easily show which one is the most popular video or photo. “While popularity is one measure of quality, it is not a measure of veracity.”(TomGruber)

Tom Coates: publishing phenomenon into a conversational mess of overlapping communities

B. RSS: called “live web” One of the things that has made a different from web 1.0 is a technology called RSS. RSS is the most significant advance in the fundamental architecture of the web since early hackers realized that CGI could be used to create database-backed websites. (Tim O’Reilly)

However, the presence of spam and other fraudulent sources in the mix, simply collecting the contributions of the masses does not lead to new levels of intelligence. (Tom Gruber)

2 Sharing technology (Google API—application programming interface) add value

web 3.0 —— semantic web (Tim Berners-Lee(2006) has described the semantic web as a component of ‘Web 3.0′)

Called “web of data”, driven by  semantic web technologies such as RDF, OWL and SPARQL, offer powerful data organization, combination, and query capabilities.

1The most basic unit nowadays is tag, we also can use RDF as the model of semantic expression. However, find the existing poor connectivity of collaborative tagging systems as a semantic space because “tags do not create much of a link space”, going almost as far as claiming that most of tagging is selfish (serving only individuals or small groups)( Hendler and Golbeck)

2Without web 2.0 there is lack of information source can be managed by semantic system

What’s next:

Social-semantic web:

1 the semantic web is the extention of web 2.0.also can seen as the complement of each other

combine the strengths of these two approaches: the data flexibility and portability of that is characteristic of the semantic web, and the scalability and authorship advantages of the social web.

2 the better cooperation between human and machine: give their own skilled responsibility.

Bright Blind instantly can make you think there is a real window where… well, there isn’t one. This blind is very similar to regular blinds and it works the same.You can have as many as you want in your house, as long as you do realize that artificial light can’t compare with the real thing, and perhaps one or two normal windows in your room couldn’t heart.

It is designed by Mangoose and it should be available in stores any day now.

Daniel Rybakken’s idea for creating a window that produces “daylight” quality light was geared towards the Scandinavian population, where large parts of the year are subject to limited daylight.  As anyone who suffers from Seasonal Affective Disorder will tell you, not having daylight makes a room smaller, makes you feel depressed, and generally takes the wind out of your sails, so to speak.

The window of daylight is interfaced with a computer, so the device could act as an alarm clock as well as giving an idea of some depth beyond the four walls of the room you’re in.

digital flour—water

amazing wall, using 3D, they give the life of this house!