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Title: New Housing Model "Flexible Housing Components": Final Booklet_05-02-12
Creator: Quinn, Aidan
Date: 2012-05-02, 2012-05
Description: This project is a focus on spatial flexibility. The idea is to generate housing components that focuses on flexibility in order to create...
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Title: Innovative Uses of Native CAD Files Progress Report June 2011
Creator: Kleps, Stephen M., Menches, Cindy
Date: 2013-09-18, 2011-06
Description: This publication presents an literature review, progress of an environmental scan, and preliminary findings of research for the project...
Show moreThis publication presents an literature review, progress of an environmental scan, and preliminary findings of research for the project entitled Innovative Uses of Native CAD Files.
Sponsorship: Electri International
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Title: New Housing Model "Flexible Housing Components: IMG_7337_EDIT_Crop"
Creator: Quinn, Aidan
Date: 2012-05-02, 2012-05
Description: This project is a focus on spatial flexibility. The idea is to generate housing components that focuses on flexibility in order to create...
Show moreThis project is a focus on spatial flexibility. The idea is to generate housing components that focuses on flexibility in order to create space that is defined by the user.
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Title: Understanding Construction Workers’ Risk Decisions Using Cognitive Continuum Theory
Creator: Menches, Cindy L., Saxena, Jaya
Date: 2013-09-19, 2013-09-19
Description: The goal of the research presented in this article was to construct a theory about the influence of decision cues on intuitive and...
Show moreThe goal of the research presented in this article was to construct a theory about the influence of decision cues on intuitive and deliberative decision-making in high-hazard construction environments. Drawing from Cognitive Continuum Theory, the article specifies a framework for understanding why and how construction workers make decisions that lead to taking or avoiding physical risks when they encounter daily hazards. A secondary aim of the research was to construct a set of hypotheses about how specific decision cues influence whether a worker is more likely to engage their intuitive impulses or to use careful deliberation when responding to a hazard. These hypotheses are described in this article, and the efficacy of the hypotheses was evaluated using cross-tabulations and nonparametric measures of association. While most of the associations between decision cues and decision mode (i.e., intuition or deliberation) identified in this data set were generally modest, none of the associations were statistically zero, thus indicating that further research is warranted based on theoretical grounds. A rigorous program of theory testing is the next logical step to the research, and the article thus concludes with numerous suggestions for extending the research and testing the proposed hypotheses.
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Title: Performance Addendum: Filing the Void: FINAL STUDIO BOARDS
Creator: Edwards, David
Date: 2012-04-24, 2012-05
Description: This project was done as a response to the thriving public performance community at the northern side of Grant park in Chicago, IL. As a...
Show moreThis project was done as a response to the thriving public performance community at the northern side of Grant park in Chicago, IL. As a former resident of the South Loop a rift was readily perceived between the North and South ends of the park in both venues for entertainment as well as general amenities. This project looked to fill a void on the south end of the park to create both a more welcoming outdoor space for the public but also to create a performance venue that could help bring business and pedestrian traffic to the southern end of the loop.
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Title: Jobsite Characteristics that Influence Improvised Decision-making on Construction Sites
Creator: Kleps, Stephen M., Menches, Cindy
Date: 2013-10-07, 2013-10-07
Description: This article examines the relationship between specific construction project characteristics and the degree and speed that the foremen are...
Show moreThis article examines the relationship between specific construction project characteristics and the degree and speed that the foremen are able to improvise in response to disruptive events on the jobsite. Specifically, characteristics such as the number of crew members working under the supervision of a foreman, the occupancy status of the project (i.e., occupied or unoccupied) during construction, the stage of completion of the project, and the levels of turbulence, time pressure, cooperation, collaboration, and organization, were examined. Using a multilevel regression modeling approach, an analysis of 244 disruptions reported by 50 foremen was conducted to determine whether the construction project characteristics could predict more or less improvisation and faster or slower improvisation by the foreman. The findings indicate that on construction projects that are rated by the foremen as more organized, the foremen can make more modest improvised decisions to resolve a disruption, but that on construction projects that were rated by the foremen as more collaborative (i.e., involved joint decision-making), a greater degree of improvisation was deployed. In addition, it was found that on sites that were rated by the foremen as more cooperative (i.e., involved greater willingness to help each other), the foremen required more time to improvise their decisions.
Sponsorship: National Science Foundation
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Title: Remixed: Reuse, Recycles, Mixed Use, Mixed Income: REMIXED FINAL BOOK
Creator: Hamburg, Michael
Date: 2012-05-04, 2012-05
Description: A mixed use, mixed income proposal for the Chicago south side, adaptively reusing shipping containers to keep construction costs low

Title: Performance Addendum: Filing the Void
Creator: Edwards, David
Date: 2012-04-24, 2012-05
Description: This project was done as a response to the thriving public performance community at the northern side of Grant park in Chicago, IL. As a...
Show moreThis project was done as a response to the thriving public performance community at the northern side of Grant park in Chicago, IL. As a former resident of the South Loop a rift was readily perceived between the North and South ends of the park in both venues for entertainment as well as general amenities. This project looked to fill a void on the south end of the park to create both a more welcoming outdoor space for the public but also to create a performance venue that could help bring business and pedestrian traffic to the southern end of the loop.
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Title: New Housing Model "Flexible Housing Components:IMG_7336_EDIT_Crop"
Creator: Quinn, Aidan
Date: 2012-05-02, 2012-05
Description: This project is a focus on spatial flexibility. The idea is to generate housing components that focuses on flexibility in order to create...
Show moreThis project is a focus on spatial flexibility. The idea is to generate housing components that focuses on flexibility in order to create space that is defined by the user.
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Title: Emotional reactions to variations in contract language
Creator: Menches, Cindy L., Dorn, Lawrence
Date: 2012-07-20, 2012-07-25
Description: This article introduces a theory of emotion-driven behavior in construction contracting and provides support for this theory by presenting the...
Show moreThis article introduces a theory of emotion-driven behavior in construction contracting and provides support for this theory by presenting the quantitative results of a study on the emotional reaction of individuals to the language in contract clauses. Four different versions of the standard Delay Clause found in most construction contracts were extracted from four different contracts and were presented to a group of 27 individuals. Participants rank ordered the clause versions from 1 (most negative) to 4 (most positive). Overall, Clause Version 2 was ranked as having the most negative contract language, with nearly 75% of the participants ranking it as most negative. In contrast, Clause Version 4 was ranked as having the most positive contract language, with over 50% of the participants ranking it as most positive. Participants likewise selected negative emotion words to describe their reaction to Clause Version 2 and positive emotion words to describe their reaction to Clause Version 4. The findings suggest that contract clauses that contain negative language do tend to generate negative emotional reactions while positive contract language do tend to generate positive emotional reactions.
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Title: Tweet Acts: How Constituents Lobby Congress via Twitter
Creator: Hemphill, Libby, Roback, Andrew
Date: 2014, 2014
Description: Twitter is increasingly becoming a medium through which constituents can lobby their elected representatives in Congress about issues that...
Show moreTwitter is increasingly becoming a medium through which constituents can lobby their elected representatives in Congress about issues that matter to them. Past research has focused on how citizens communicate with each other or how members of Congress (MOCs) use social media in general; our research examines how citizens communicate with MOCs. We contribute to existing literature through the careful examination of hundreds of citizen-authored tweets and the development of a categorization scheme to describe common strategies of lobbying on Twitter. Our findings show that contrary to past research that assumed citizens used Twitter to merely shout out their opinions on issues, citizens utilize a variety of sophisticated techniques to impact political outcomes.
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Title: Performance Addendum: Filing the Void: Upload to website
Creator: Edwards, David
Date: 2012-04-24, 2012-05
Description: This project was done as a response to the thriving public performance community at the northern side of Grant park in Chicago, IL. As a...
Show moreThis project was done as a response to the thriving public performance community at the northern side of Grant park in Chicago, IL. As a former resident of the South Loop a rift was readily perceived between the North and South ends of the park in both venues for entertainment as well as general amenities. This project looked to fill a void on the south end of the park to create both a more welcoming outdoor space for the public but also to create a performance venue that could help bring business and pedestrian traffic to the southern end of the loop.
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Title: New Housing Model "Flexible Housing Components:IMG_7332_EDIT_Crop "
Creator: Quinn, Aidan
Date: 2012-05-02, 2012-05
Description: This project is a focus on spatial flexibility. The idea is to generate housing components that focuses on flexibility in order to create...
Show moreThis project is a focus on spatial flexibility. The idea is to generate housing components that focuses on flexibility in order to create space that is defined by the user.
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Title: IPro 336 Poster
Creator: Stanford, Eliza
Date: 2012-07-23, 2012-07-23
Description: IPro 336 Poster
IPro 336

Title: New Housing Model "Flexible Housing Components:IMG_7334_EDIT_Crop"
Creator: Quinn, Aidan
Date: 2012-05-02, 2012-05
Description: This project is a focus on spatial flexibility. The idea is to generate housing components that focuses on flexibility in order to create...
Show moreThis project is a focus on spatial flexibility. The idea is to generate housing components that focuses on flexibility in order to create space that is defined by the user.
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Title: Remixed: Reuse, Recycles, Mixed Use, Mixed Income
Creator: Hamburg, Michael
Date: 2012-05-04, 2012-05
Description: A mixed use, mixed income proposal for the Chicago south side, adaptively reusing shipping containers to keep construction costs low

Title: Remixed: Reuse, Recycles, Mixed Use, Mixed Income: REMIXED FINAL BOARD
Creator: Hamburg, Michael
Date: 2012-05-04, 2012-05
Description: A mixed use, mixed income proposal for the Chicago south side, adaptively reusing shipping containers to keep construction costs low

Title: New Housing Model "Flexible Housing Components": Boards_4_A_4-25-12
Creator: Quinn, Aidan
Date: 2012-05-02, 2012-05
Description: This project is a focus on spatial flexibility. The idea is to generate housing components that focuses on flexibility in order to create...
Show moreThis project is a focus on spatial flexibility. The idea is to generate housing components that focuses on flexibility in order to create space that is defined by the user.
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Title: New Housing Model "Flexible Housing Components"
Creator: Quinn, Aidan
Date: 2012-05-02, 2012-05
Description: This project is a focus on spatial flexibility. The idea is to generate housing components that focuses on flexibility in order to create...
Show moreThis project is a focus on spatial flexibility. The idea is to generate housing components that focuses on flexibility in order to create space that is defined by the user.
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Title: IPRO 306 Flyer
Creator: Ipro, 306
Date: 2012, 2012
Description: Sponsorship: AggreBind

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