Problem
Research questions and friction points this paper is trying to address.
Digital Twins
Human Systems
Social Systems
Engineering Practice
Missing Dimensions: Integrating Human and Social Systems into Digital Twin Engineering
🤖 AI Summary
本文提出在数字孪生工程中应明确考虑工程、自然/生物、人类及社会四个系统维度，以支持决策和增强居住者能力，并指出面临的四个研究挑战。
📝 Abstract
Digital twins (DTs) have emerged as a key technology at the core of digital transformation, yet their engineering practice remains too narrowly focused on engineered and natural systems. This paper argues that four system dimensions must be explicitly recognized in DT engineering: Engineered, Natural/Biological, Human, and Social. Each dimension brings distinct properties, modeling requirements, and ethical obligations that fundamentally shape what a DT must represent and how it must be built. We further argue that as DTs extend into the Human and Social dimensions, the emphasis should shift from automated control toward decision support and occupant empowerment. We illustrate our arguments using a smart building as a running example and identify four open research challenges for multi-dimensional DT engineering.
Innovation
Methods, ideas, or system contributions that make the work stand out.
Digital Twins
Multi-dimensional Engineering
Decision Support
Occupant Empowerment
Ethical Obligations
🔎 Similar Papers
No similar papers found.
