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vr.tr.room-quantity · thing-room-quantity

Let an agent treat room as available capacity with a measure and a limit, separate from a room as a part of a building.

Thing Registry Cross-cutting context XCT.QTY
Bundle → Layer → Finding → QuestionsClassifiersWhat it isWhy it existsDistinguishing featuresWhat robots and AI may and may not doMoral aspectsOwnersLinks to other meta-modelsIdentity and identifiersDirect propertiesRecognitionCapabilities and actionsHazards and failure modesStandards and interfacesContext of useSources

Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled

4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions

Measure How much room there is.

Amount

Area, volume or clearance.

Measured space

The measured free space.

  1. How much free space is available, measured how? measurement
  2. For what purpose is it being measured? definition

Need

Space required.

Space required

What must fit.

  1. How much space does the intended use require? measurement
  2. Which rule or guidance sets that requirement? provenance
Capacity and safety Limits on occupancy.

Capacity

Occupancy limits.

Occupancy limit

The legal or safe capacity.

  1. What is the permitted capacity of this space? measurement
  2. Who sets and enforces it? provenance

Circulation

Space for movement and escape.

Circulation space

Widths of routes and exits.

  1. Are circulation routes wide enough and clear? measurement
  2. What happens when they are blocked? boundary
Allocation Sharing room.

Seating

Seats and places.

Seat allocation

How seats are allocated.

  1. How many places are available, and how are they allocated? measurement
  2. Are accessible places reserved? boundary

Storage

Free storage.

Storage space

Free storage volume.

  1. How much storage room remains? measurement
  2. What should happen when it runs out? action
Accessibility Room for everyone.

Clearance

Widths and turning space.

Clearance check

Clear widths and turning circles.

  1. Is there enough clear width and turning space for a wheelchair? measurement
  2. Which standard applies? provenance

Adjustment

Making room.

Adjustments

Changes that create room.

  1. What can be moved to make room? action
  2. Who is responsible for keeping it clear? provenance

Classifiers Filled

Family
Thing Registry
Category
Cross-cutting context
Entry kind
noun.quantity
Plane
XCT
Domain
XCT.QTY
Facets: substance
abstract
Facets: origin
conceptual
Facets: agency
inert
Facets: mobility
not-applicable
Facets: scale
not-applicable
Facets: affordances
observable
Other names and narrower kinds
bleachers, circle, dress circle, grandstand, covered stand, orchestra, parquet, parquet circle, parterre, reviewing stand, ringside, ringside seat

What it is Filled

Space available for movement or for something to fit, considered as an amount rather than as a place.

Why it exists Filled

Let an agent treat room as available capacity with a measure and a limit, separate from a room as a part of a building.

Distinguishing features Filled

  • An amount of space, not a bounded place
  • Relative to what must fit: the same space is room for one purpose and not another
  • Subject to safety limits in public places
  • The building room is a separate sense

What robots and AI may and may not do Filled

Must not

  • Exceed a space's capacity limit or allow overcrowding.
  • Fill circulation or escape space so people cannot move freely.
  • Leave too little room for wheelchair users to turn or pass.

Only with a human decision

  • Allocating limited space between people with competing needs.

May

  • Measure free space, clearance and capacity and report it.
  • Allocate space fairly among people or items as instructed.

Moral aspects Filled

  • Lack of room creates danger in crowds and excludes disabled people.

Who is affected

  • People in crowded spaces
  • Wheelchair users

Owners Filled

Steward

The operator of the space, who sets and enforces capacity limits.

Links to other meta-models Filled

parent

  • oewn-05081943-n - registry parent class

related

  • quantity - an amount of space
  • room in a building - a homonym; that sense is a place
  • capacity rule - occupancy and crowd safety limits
  • area or volume - m2 or m3

What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled

Identity and identifiers required Filled

  • Vercy registry: vr.tr.room-quantity
  • Open English WordNet: oewn-13799976-n

Direct properties not applicable Not applicable

  • clearance for a person to pass: 0.6-0.9 m - wheelchair passage needs about 0.9 m
  • floor area per standing person: 0.25-0.5 m2 - crowd safety guidance

Plane XCT: no invented physical properties.

Recognition optional Filled

  • Free floor area or clearance around objects
  • Unoccupied places in seating areas such as stands and circles
  • The room of a building is a different sense and entry
  • Empty space around or between things; seen as clearance, free floor area or unoccupied seats.

Capabilities and actions required Filled

  • measure it, as free area, volume or clearance
  • allocate it, among people or items
  • exhaust it, which is what capacity limits guard against
  • make it, by rearranging or removing things

Hazards and failure modes required Filled

  • Overcrowding when capacity is exceeded
  • Blocked circulation space in emergencies
  • Insufficient turning space for wheelchair users

Standards and interfaces required Filled

  • Building codes on occupant load and circulation widths
  • Crowd safety guidance for venues
  • Accessibility standards on clear widths and turning space

Context of use required Filled

  • Deciding whether things or people fit, and planning space for movement, seating and storage.
  • room to move: clearance and circulation space
  • room to sit: seating capacity, as in stands and theatre circles
  • room to store: free storage volume
  • figurative room, such as room for manoeuvre

Sources Filled

  1. Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-13799976-n - sense and gloss of the concept
  2. Wiktionary: room - word senses and usage

Open questions

  • Should seating areas such as stands and circles, merged into this entry, be split off?
  • How should capacity be modelled as a property of places?
  • How should figurative senses be separated?

Machine files

Card as JSON Specification Card backlog vercy.card/1

Provenance

thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed

Built from: models/things/publications/thing-room-quantity/spec.json