This cool tool plays an intrinsic role in education: it helps provide space for learning. Lambent Spaces Occupancy Analytics platform helps higher education space planning professionals see their physical campus spaces in entirely new ways with powerful insights for decisions related to utilization, student experiences, classroom planning, scheduling and maintenance. It is a highly efficient and effective alternative to capital-intensive and intrusive solutions such as sensors, and it works with existing Wi-Fi infrastructure to get users up and running quickly while reducing costs.

Key capabilities include:

• Dynamic Space Management: identifies behavior trends to improve operations and inform decision-making for the use/reallocation of existing campus spaces, and construction of new ones.
• Data-Driven Decisions – provides in-depth, to-the-minute understanding of how/where people flow throughout a campus to surface risks, reduce costs, optimize space.
• Visual Mapping – makes occupancy data and usage patterns more relevant.
• Actionable Insights – in weeks vs. months.
• Privacy as a Priority – counts people and surfaces data points anonymously.
• Simple Integrations – with existing systems; deployed onsite or in the cloud
• Transforming Data to People Count – proprietary algorithms and machine learning at the edge produce anonymous spatial estimates of occupancy utilization by zone.
• Platform Data Insights – utilization trends and patterns throughout buildings and across campus.

Users can view utilization rates over time, compare registrations to reservations, identify underutilized spaces to reassign students and employees during build/maintenance projects, and make lease renewal and facility budget decisions with hard data.

Eastern Tennessee State, George Mason, Purdue, University of Southern Florida, University of Tennessee-Knoxville and William & Mary are a few of the institutions using the platform. For these reasons and more, Lambent Spaces was named “Best Occupancy Analytics for Space Optimization Solution” as part of The EdTech Awards 2024 from EdTech Digest. Learn more.

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I will often map out a Tuesday newsletter in my notebook, forget I made a map, and write it without my notes. Then when I go back flipping through my notebook, I discover everything I left out!

Today’s newsletter is about messing around with anticipation and recall to stretch out pleasant events and minimize unpleasant ones. 

On the unpleasant side, I left out one of my favorite parts of the section of Katherine Morgan Schafler’s The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control that inspired the letter:

We justify agreeing to get coffee with someone whom we don’t really want to see by saying something like, “It’ll just be half an hour and then I’ll leave.” No. It’ll be the anticipatory anxiety for the week leading up to that half hour, the half hour itself, and then the negative recall of how you felt annoyed and immediately resentful upon sitting down, didn’t want to be there, and couldn’t believe she said that, even though she always says stuff like that, and that’s why you don’t like hanging out with her in the first place….When it comes to agreeing to engage in events we don’t want to engage in, there’s nothing quick about quick catch-up drinks or quick calls or quick meetings.

This adds a layer to the question to ask yourself to avoid accepting invitations you’ll later regret: “Would I do it tomorrow?”

The time travel involved in this calculation is already tricky — who knows how I’ll feel about doing something five minutes from now, let alone five months from now? But if you think about the time leading up to the event and the time coming down from it, suddenly such obligations reveal their bloated shape. 

(“The job never kills anybody,” says John Taylor of Duran Duran. “It’s the fucking stuff you do in between.”)

On the pleasant side, I was reminded of how important it is to have something to look forward to, no matter how silly.

All of this, by the way, is a form of playing with your experience of time: by exploiting anticipation and recall, you’re trying to effectively slow down and speed up certain events, and using your memory to shape the story you want to tell about your experience. 

You can read the whole newsletter here. 

Yesterday’s newsletter, “Drawing Eno,” was inspired by seeing Gary Hustwit’s new film Eno and how I’ve been drawing Brian Eno lectures and interviews for over 15 years. Here’s a drawing I made from the generated version of the movie I saw:

You can read the rest of the newsletter here.

Apple Maps krijgt een geheel nieuwe feature. Gebruikers kunnen nu ook fietsaanwijzingen krijgen voor routes speciaal voor fietsers. Dat werkt niet alleen in de smartphone-app, maar ook op de Apple Watch.

De app geeft voortaan gedetailleerde, stapsgewijze fietsaanwijzingen voor routes over fietspaden, fietsstroken en fietsvriendelijke wegen. Daarbij krijg je meer dan alleen instructies over hoe je moet fietsen om op je bestemming te komen. Je krijgt ook informatie over de hoogte van een rit en of de route een drukke weg bevat. Ben je dus niet zo gek op fietsen over heuvels of drukke wegen, dan kun je die vermijden.

Ook geeft de app voortaan meldingen om af te stappen en te lopen als je bepaalde kruispunten nadert en zijn er opties om een openbaar toilet, een stopplaats of een fietsenmaker te vinden. Wil je met anderen delen wanneer je ergens aankomt, dan is ook dat mogelijk.

Alle aanwijzingen over de route zelf kun je met stembegeleiding krijgen, zodat je niet steeds naar je telefoon hoeft te kijken. Daarnaast geeft Apple Maps een routeoverzicht of een lijst met afslagen. Ben je dus even kwijt waar je bent of wil je weten hoe de route er straks uitziet, dan kun je dat gedetailleerd terugvinden.

Apple Maps op de Apple Watch

De fietsaanwijzingen in Apple Maps doen het ook op de Apple Watch. Zo kun je op de Apple Watch een overzicht krijgen van de hoogte langs een route en is er haptic touch voor stapsgewijze routeaanwijzingen. Ook is er Voice Feedback over de snelheid en afstand die je aflegt. Dergelijke informatie wordt hardop gegeven via de ingebouwde luidspreker van de Watch.

De nieuwe fietsaanwijzingen in Apple Maps zijn beschikbaar voor iOS 14 of nieuwer.

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Lees Apple Maps toont nu ook fietsroutes en geeft gesproken aanwijzingen verder op Numrush