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Este artículo saca a la luz el inédito primer proyecto de PLOT, una propuesta
no realizada para una plataforma web de diseño colaborativo en línea titulada
Information Technology and Architecture. Su estudio revela los principios teóricos
que los fundadores de esta oficina, Bjarke Ingels y Julien de Smedt, establecieron
en 2001 para una arquitectura pensada para la era de la World Wide Web, desde
el entendimiento del proyecto arquitectónico como un dispositivo relacional
hasta su condición global. Vistos en perspectiva, dichos principios parecen haber
enmarcado las intenciones y lógicas subyacentes a muchas de las obras realizadas
por ambos arquitectos después de la disolución de PLOT en el año 2006. En
particular, los planteamientos de la embrionaria plataforma web se manifiestan con
nitidez en Superkilen, un proyecto de regeneración urbana construido por BIG en
2013 y que resultó de la congregación en Copenhague de un centenar de objetos
de mobiliario urbano procedentes de todo el planeta.


This paper sheds light on PLOT’s first project: Information Technology and
Architecture, an unpublished proposal for a web-based design platform. The
study of the project brings to the fore the theoretical principles that the founders
of PLOT, Bjarke Ingels and Julien de Smedt, associated with an architecture
conceived for the age of the World Wide Web, including the definition of
design as a relational device or the acknowledgement of its global condition. In
hindsight, much of the work produced by both architects after the dissolution
of PLOT in 2006 seems to respond to such principles. In particular, the logics
of Information Technology and Architecture resonate with Superkilen, the public
park built in 2013 by BIG as a compilation in Copenhagen of a hundred objects
from all around the world.

This study examines how older drivers responded to repeated exposures to a driver simulator. Older active and fit drivers participated in 5 simulator sessions within a 14-day period. For each session, simulator sickness symptoms were measured with the Simulator Sickness Questionnaire at baseline and post-session. In addition, participants completed a 10-cm visual analog scale (0= no symptom, 10= mild nausea) at baseline and after a familiarization scenario and post-session. Overall, older adults adapted to the driving simulator and by the fourth session, they showed no difference in sickness scores between the baseline and the post-session measurements. Increasing the exposure duration at session 5 yielded an increase in the sickness symptoms. These results suggest that shorterduration multiple exposures could reduce simulator sickness symptoms in elderly drivers and allow a more effective use of simulators for training by preventing early withdrawal of participants.

To curb the spread of the coronavirus, authorities around the world implemented lockdown measures for months. In these locked down days, people as well as healthcare workers (HWs) are increasingly relying on social media platforms to socialize among themselves and get the latest updates of this pandemic situation. As a result, social media users' interaction data have become a key resource in analyzing their behaviors. COVID-19 is the first global pandemic in the global scale after the appearance of social media. HWs such as physicians, nurses, technicians, and hospital support staff provide essential services to the patients with COVID-19 even after having lack of sufficient equipment, poor preparation, and risking their own lives. These HWs may experience sudden change in their personality traits due to pandemic, which are not studied in the existing literature. In this paper, we investigate how the pandemic influences Big5 personality traits of HWs using social media data. Ou...