At present, environment designers mostly use their intuition and experience to predictively account for how environments might support dynamic activity. The majority of Computer-Aided Design tools only provide a static representation of space which potentially ignores the impact that an environment layout produces on its occupants and their movements. To address this, computational techniques such as crowd simulation have been developed. With few exceptions, crowd simulation frameworks are often decoupled from environment modeling tools. They usually require specific hardware/software infrastructures and expertise to be used, hindering the designers' abilities to seamlessly simulate, analyze, and incorporate movement-centric dynamics into their design workflows. To bridge this disconnect, we devise a cross-browser service-based simulation analytics platform to analyze environment layouts with respect to occupancy and activity. Our platform allows users to access simulation services by uploading three-dimensional environment models in numerous common formats, devise targeted simulation scenarios, run simulations, and instantly generate crowd-based analytics for their designs. We conducted a case study to showcase cross-domain applicability of our service-based platform, and a user study to evaluate the usability of this approach.

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模拟即服务：分析虚拟环境中的人群运动

目前，环境设计师大多使用他们的直觉和经验来预测性地解释环境如何支持动态活动。大多数计算机辅助设计工具仅提供空间的静态表示，这可能会忽略环境布局对其居住者及其运动产生的影响。为了解决这个问题，已经开发了诸如人群模拟之类的计算技术。除了少数例外，人群模拟框架通常与环境建模工具分离。它们通常需要使用特定的硬件/软件基础设施和专业知识，从而阻碍了设计人员无缝模拟、分析和将以运动为中心的动力学整合到他们的设计工作流程中的能力。为了弥合这种脱节，我们设计了一个基于跨浏览器服务的模拟分析平台来分析与占用和活动相关的环境布局。我们的平台允许用户通过上传多种常见格式的 3D 环境模型来访问模拟服务，设计有针对性的模拟场景，运行模拟，并立即为他们的设计生成基于人群的分析。我们进行了一个案例研究来展示我们基于服务的平台的跨域适用性，并进行了一项用户研究来评估这种方法的可用性。并立即为他们的设计生成基于人群的分析。我们进行了一个案例研究来展示我们基于服务的平台的跨域适用性，并进行了一项用户研究来评估这种方法的可用性。并立即为他们的设计生成基于人群的分析。我们进行了一个案例研究来展示我们基于服务的平台的跨域适用性，并进行了一项用户研究来评估这种方法的可用性。