Design Analytics: Predicting Human Spatial Experience

Harvard GSD

How do we measure human experience in space? Can we predict a design’s impact on human comfort, cognitive performance, or preference before it is built? As environments are increasingly interpreted by machines through sensors, computational models, and predictive algorithms, designers need new ways to observe, analyze, and evaluate spatial experience. Understanding where human and machine perceptions converge and diverge is essential to rethinking how environments are designed and…