Human–AI–Building Interaction
The building acts. The AI reasons. You decide.
You ask. The AI plans. The building moves.
The building senses. The AI explains. You decide.
The building reports. The AI learns. You correct.
Three parties, and none of them is in charge by default. We study the interaction and collaboration between them — what each one can sense, what each one may do, and how the three of them find a synergy none could reach alone. Take the occupant's side below.
The shape of the problem
From setpoint to collaboration.
For most of architectural history there was one relationship: you and the building, directly. Putting an agent between them does not replace it — it creates two more alongside it, and there will be more than three before long.
The sixth channel is the one that runs back to you.
What it does to the other five is the research.
The portfolio
From one individual to a whole city.
Human–AI–Building interaction is not a sixth research area beside the others — it is how we now approach all five.
Lab news
What's happening.
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08/2026
The HUBS lab welcomes a new PhD student, Sadia Jahan Noor! She will work on agentic AI occupant/building systems, including the educational applications.
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08/2026
Dr. Jung will serve as a Poster and Demo Co-Chair at Buildsys 2027 (ACM Sustainability Week 2027)!
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07/2026
A new journal article, titled Large Language Model-Driven Context-Aware Eco-Feedback Generation and Evaluation, is accepted and published by Energy and Buildings!
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07/2026
Prosper's third, first-authored journal article has been accepted by Building and Environment: Assessing Indoor Heat Strain through Occupant Language: A Framework for Building Thermal Resilience. Congrats!
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06/2026
Dr. Jung participated in Buildsys26, presented four papers, and won a 3rd Best Paper from Socialsys26!
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06/2026
The HUBS lab successfully led another Summer Engineering Academy activity to represent Architectural Engineering!
outreach
Join us
We need people who can work on all three corners.
Agents and reasoning, sensing and actuation hardware, building physics, and the human-subject work that keeps all three honest. PhD, master's, and undergraduate positions in Civil & Architectural Engineering & Mechanics, The University of Arizona.