A Review on the Interactions Between Human and Digital Twin for Building Operations
Part Of
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Journal Volume
685 LNCE
Start Page
367
End Page
380
ISSN
23662557
ISBN (of the container)
9789819687688
ISBN
9789819687688
Date Issued
2025
Author(s)
Abstract
A building’s digital twin (DT) system integrates the virtual and physical environments by emphasizing the mutual data flow. DT technology can improve building operations’ performance, including space utilization improvement, energy consumption reduction, etc. However, current users of building’s DTs are mainly building owners and facility managers. Even though building occupants are the key users of the buildings, their interactions with buildings’ DTs are limited. Exploring human-DT interactions can refine current buildings’ DT developments. This paper conducts a bibliometric and content analysis to review emerging approaches that facilitate human-DT interactions, the challenges encountered, and the related research trends. It focuses on the types and methods of data collection and delivery considerations of human centricity in DT systems. The review results from 43 papers show that (1) the major research areas encompass technological aspects (e.g., BIM and IoT) and user-centered design elements (user interfaces and user experiences); (2) commonly used technologies such as environmental monitoring sensors, smartwatches, visualization interfaces, and XR tools are identified; (3) the design objective of a human-centered DT system is to enable intuitive, natural, and dynamic interactions for complex information exchange to users. This review contributes to identifying DT development gaps and future research directions.
Event(s)
24th International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality, CONVR 2024, Sydney, 3 November 2024 - 5 November 2024
Subjects
Digital building twin
Facility management
Interaction
User-centered
Virtual environment
SDGs
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Type
conference paper