Measuring Aspects of a Real Site
GEOMETRY
Architects Scale: a specialised ruler used in making and measuring from reduced scale drawings, such as blueprints and floor plans. It is marked with a range of calibrated scales.
Caliper: a device used to measure the distance between two symmetrically opposing sides.
GPS: Global Positioning System provides reliable positioning, navigation and timing services to worldwide users on a continuous basis in all weather, day and night, anywhere on or near the earth.
Odometer: indicates distance traveled by a car or other vehicle. device may be electronic or mechanical.
Ruler/ Tape Measure: is an instrument used to measure distances and to rule straight lines.
Surveyor's Wheel: also called a clickwheel, hodometer, waywiser, trundle wheel, or perambulator is a device for measuring distance.
Taximeter: is a mechanical or electronic device installed in taxicabs that calculates passenger fares based on a combination of distance traveled and waiting time.
Planimeter: is a measuring instrument used to determine the area of an arbitrary two-dimensional shape.
MATERIALITY
Durometer: one of several measures of the hardness of a material. Hardness may be defined as a materials resistance to permanent indentation.
Impulse excitation technique: a small mechanical impulse causes the sample to vibrate. The vibration depends on elastic properties, density, geometry and inner structures. Finds elasticity of a solid.
Universal Testing Machine: is used to test the tensile and compressive properties of materials.
SOUND
Laser microphone: is a surveillance device that uses a laser beam to detect sound vibrations in a distant object.
Seismometers: instruments that measure and record motions of the ground, including those of seismic waves generated by earthquakes, nuclear explosions, and other seismic sources.
Microphone: is an accoustic-to-electric sensor that converts sound into an electrical signal, used for recording voice.
Sound level meter: measure sound pressure level and are commonly used in noise pollution studies for the quantification of almost any noise.
LIGHT
Camera: device that records images, either as a still photograph or as moving images.
Light Meter: device used to measure the amount of light. Often used to determine the proper exposure for a photograph.
Photodiode: capable of converting light into either current or voltage, depending upon the mode of operation
Light dependent resistor: is a resistor whose resistance decreases with increasing incident light intensity.
INTERACTION
Olfactometer: is a device typically used to measure the keenness of the sense of smell.
Medical thermometer: used for measuring human body temperature.
Human Body: Using yourself to gain a first-hand account of the area and interaction within it.
Infra-red camera: device that forms an image using infrared radiation.
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