Human-Data Interaction Committee

The Human-Data Interaction (HDI) committee is a permanent committee of the EC³ and reports to the Board. This committee is responsible for promoting the research and innovation agenda of EC³ on all matters relevant to human-data interaction.

Scope

The physical world is becoming a platform for generating data on the workings of human society, its interactions with the physical environment, and other economic, political, and social interactions. The design, construction and operation of assets within the built environment at every level, ranging from an individual system to entire cities, is now pervaded by data that is generated by ubiquitous computing and sensing technologies. Understanding how interactions between humans and data are changing across these asset levels and project phases can unravel new insights across the engineering, social and management domains and the underpinning research methodologies.

The purpose of the Human Data Interaction Committee (HDI) of the EC³ is to foster and lead the research debate about HDI in engineering and construction projects and the operation of the built environment. It will represent the EC³ voice who will liaise with relevant industry and policy stakeholders (industry associations/societies, communities of practice, funding bodies, and policymakers) to identify priorities for research and education in HDI. It will strive to spearhead HDI research and practice in the selected areas of priorities. It will support existing and new conferences and journals concerning HDI topics in engineering and construction projects and the operation of the built environment.

The HDI committee will investigate:

Theories, methodologies and methods involved in emerging HDI;
Paradigms and frameworks for analysis, design and application of HDI;
Development and evaluation of platforms, architectures or component technologies that underpin interactions between human actors and the data systems within projects and the built environment;
Evaluation of existing technologies and designs through different testing methods (experiments, simulations, case studies, benchmarks, etc.);
Understanding of users and their behaviours to inform the improvement and the design of new systems and/or policies;
Extending interactions through the development of new uses and techniques; and
Ethics and implications: understanding individual and societal implications and consequences of emerging interactions and novel uses of ICT and AI-related applications.

Members of the HDI committee

The HDI committee comprises of the following people:

Position	Person	Country
Chair	Dr Jennifer Li Northumbria University	UK
Vice-Chair	Dr Diego Calvetti Porto University	Portugal
Past-Chair	Prof Mohammad Kassem Newcastle University	UK
Past-Chair	Associate Prof Ana Roxin University of Bourgogne France-Comté	France
Secretary	Mr Mahir Msawil Northumbria University	UK
Members	Associate Prof Gülben Calis Ege University	Turkey
	Assistant Prof Patrick Dallasega Free University of Bozen-Bolzano	Italy
	Assistant Prof Patrick Dallasega Free University of Bozen-Bolzano	Italy
	Dr Peter Demian Loughborough University	UK
	Assistant Prof Dimosthenis Kifokeris Chalmers University	Sweden
	Prof Christian Koch Aalborg University	Denmark
	Dr Dragana Nikolić University of Reading	UK
	Dr May Shayboun Halmstad University	Sweden
	Dr Silvia Mastrolembo Ventura University of Brescia, Italy	Italy
	Assistant Prof Marijana Sreckovic TU Wien	Austria
	Dr Mahendrini Ariyachandra University of Cambridge	UK
	Dr Sujesh Sujan Mott MacDonald and NTNU	UK
	Dilan Durmus Universita Politecnico della Marche	Italy
	Dr Ranjith Soman TU Delft	Netherlands
	Dr Xiang Xie Newcastle University	UK