Eve Edelstein | NewSchool of Architecture (original) (raw)
Papers by Eve Edelstein
Journal of Interior Design, Mar 1, 2022
Herd: Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 2008
Biological and medical research offer rigorous techniques and scientific methodologies to explore... more Biological and medical research offer rigorous techniques and scientific methodologies to explore how features of the built environment influence human health, performance, and well-being. Practice guidelines from evidence-based medicine and translational science provide models for translating biomedical information into design principles applicable to healthcare environments. Examples from recent scientific discoveries highlight how scientific evidence may inform healthcare design. The interaction between stress and environmental stimuli such as light, sound, and location are relevant to patients, visitors, and staff, influencing cardiac and stress responses as well as cognitive functions such as memory and navigation abilities. Research demonstrating the pervasive influence of light on human biological systems includes epidemiological and laboratory studies that suggest an association between light exposure and increased cardiac or cancer risk. Advances in laboratory research and the development of wearable devices that may be used on-site in healthcare settings facilitate more precise measurement of the environmental features that influence healthcare users and providers. The data derived may serve as the foundation for new evidence-based performance criteria, supporting the use of existing materials and methods, as well as the creation of new design solutions to meet health needs in addition to operational outcomes.
Journal of Interior Design, Mar 1, 2022
Herd: Health Environments Research & Design Journal, Jul 1, 2008
Purpose: There is a clear call for a single-source knowledge base linking literature on architect... more Purpose: There is a clear call for a single-source knowledge base linking literature on architecture and human outcomes. However, this seemingly simple need relies upon a vast source of information from multiple disciplines, each with their own vocabulary, structures, and modes of disciplinary thought. Background: The “Information Age” provides an abundance of research from the sciences as well as the humanities. Despite unprecedented access via public and licensed databases, searching across knowledge repositories remains a labor-intensive and skilled task. It therefore behooves the design profession to collaborate with experts in research, and to seek new skills for searching, interpreting, and applying evidence to design. Methods: The pattern of database usage by 71 professionals involved with evidence-based design in healthcare facilities was studied. Respondents represented a range of interests including healthcare practitioners and executives, researchers, and design professionals. Findings: Survey analysis revealed that a large number of information repositories are used (45), though few sources were used in common among the respondents. Recommendations: Knowledge informatics strategies are reviewed, and concepts put forward advocating the design of an information source with multiple portals, vocabularies, and outputs to serve design, research, and healthcare practitioners alike.
The intersection of neuroscience and architecture offers new perspectives and approaches to an in... more The intersection of neuroscience and architecture offers new perspectives and approaches to an international community who use rigorous research from neuroscience to inform design innovations for the benefit of all. This paper explores a process of universal design innovation that has been applied in a pragmatic model for teaching and adoption in design practice, architecture and planning policy. Scientific principles revealing sensory processing, space perception, emotion, motion and cognition are incorporated in a practical grid that integrates neuro-scientific findings to inform 'research-based design' innovations, recommendations and priorities. The adoption of research-based principles in professional practice include analysis of clinical and physiological studies of the environmental responses of people with multiple needs. This approach is examined in the context of a pedagogical study of design studios and neuro-universal lecture courses at four universities, and for the Berkeley Prize Universal Design Teaching Fellowship. The opportunities provided by peer-to-peer and pre-studio working groups, as well as iterative interaction among students, educators, and individuals with disabilities are explored.
Building Simulation Conference Proceedings
The effects of building design on human circadian rhythms have been linked to health, behavior, a... more The effects of building design on human circadian rhythms have been linked to health, behavior, and performance outcomes. Limited options, however, are available for predicting circadian stimuli during the design process, other than via quantification of a single variable known as melanopic illuminance. Several additional circadian illuminance quantities (including rhodopic-, cyanopic-, chloropic-, and erythropic-lux) have not, to date, been utilized in simulating circadian exposure. We demonstrate how daylight, spatial, and material choices may alter the contribution of five currently-known photoreceptor channels to regulating circadian rhythms. This novel 3D rendering system will also support future circadian research and applied solutions.
Journal of Interior Design, 2022
The intersection of neuroscience and architecture offers new perspectives and approaches to an in... more The intersection of neuroscience and architecture offers new perspectives and approaches to an international community who use rigorous research from neuroscience to inform design innovations for the benefit of all. This paper explores a process of universal design innovation that has been applied in a pragmatic model for teaching and adoption in design practice, architecture and planning policy. Scientific principles revealing sensory processing, space perception, emotion, motion and cognition are incorporated in a practical grid that integrates neuro-scientific findings to inform ‘research-based design’ innovations, recommendations and priorities. The adoption of research-based principles in professional practice include analysis of clinical and physiological studies of the environmental responses of people with multiple needs. This approach is examined in the context of a pedagogical study of design studios and neuro-universal lecture courses at four universities, and for the Ber...
HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 2008
Purpose: There is a clear call for a single-source knowledge base linking literature on architect... more Purpose: There is a clear call for a single-source knowledge base linking literature on architecture and human outcomes. However, this seemingly simple need relies upon a vast source of information from multiple disciplines, each with their own vocabulary, structures, and modes of disciplinary thought. Background: The “Information Age” provides an abundance of research from the sciences as well as the humanities. Despite unprecedented access via public and licensed databases, searching across knowledge repositories remains a labor-intensive and skilled task. It therefore behooves the design profession to collaborate with experts in research, and to seek new skills for searching, interpreting, and applying evidence to design. Methods: The pattern of database usage by 71 professionals involved with evidence-based design in healthcare facilities was studied. Respondents represented a range of interests including healthcare practitioners and executives, researchers, and design professio...
HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 2009
Objective: The design of the consultation room remains largely unaltered despite major changes in... more Objective: The design of the consultation room remains largely unaltered despite major changes in clinical practice, such as the electronic medical record and patient-centered care. The value of redesigning the consultation room to accommodate these changes and the effect of a redesign on patient-clinician interaction are unclear. Methods: The authors randomly allocated 65 patient-physician dyads to consultations in a standard room ( n = 30) or in an experimental room designed with a semicircular table around which the clinician and the patient sat, with equal access to the computer screen ( n = 35). Participant responses to post-visit surveys, assessing patient experiences in these rooms, were compared in an intention-to-treat fashion. Results: The authors found no differences between the rooms in terms of patient satisfaction with the consultation, mutual respect, or communication quality. Compared to the standard room, patients in the experimental room were better able to interac...
Biomedical sciences instrumentation, 2008
Autoregressive and fast Fourier transform spectral analyses of high-frequency heart rate variabil... more Autoregressive and fast Fourier transform spectral analyses of high-frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV) result in exponentially-distributed values that make standard parametric statistical analyses problematic. In this paper, we evaluate three transforms of raw HF-HRV spectral power. Two occur commonly in the literature (a natural log [ln] transform and a reactivity transform); a third is novel (a "percent deviation from the mean" transform). A single data set was used, with each subject providing two data points and for which we predicted a significant difference in HF-HRV power. We quantified the effect size of each transform by noting the percentage of (non)overlap between the +/- 1 standard errors surrounding the two period means, with less overlap indicating a stronger effect. Overlap was 19.2% in the raw data (Fig 1b.), 3.7% in the ln transform (Fig. 2b), -57.1% in the reactivity transform (Fig. 3b), and -70.2% in the percent deviation transform (Fig. 4b). The ...
HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 2008
Biological and medical research offer rigorous techniques and scientific methodologies to explore... more Biological and medical research offer rigorous techniques and scientific methodologies to explore how features of the built environment influence human health, performance, and well-being. Practice guidelines from evidence-based medicine and translational science provide models for translating biomedical information into design principles applicable to healthcare environments. Examples from recent scientific discoveries highlight how scientific evidence may inform healthcare design. The interaction between stress and environmental stimuli such as light, sound, and location are relevant to patients, visitors, and staff, influencing cardiac and stress responses as well as cognitive functions such as memory and navigation abilities. Research demonstrating the pervasive influence of light on human biological systems includes epidemiological and laboratory studies that suggest an association between light exposure and increased cardiac or cancer risk. Advances in laboratory research and ...
Journal of Interior Design, 2022
Sustainable Environmental Design in Architecture, 2011
... Acknowledgements The Neuroscience Design team acknowledges Calit2 and UCSD for sup-porting th... more ... Acknowledgements The Neuroscience Design team acknowledges Calit2 and UCSD for sup-porting the projects described here including the contributions of ... We also acknowledge Randy Peterson and Alvaro Velasquez for use of their models, and a generous gift in support of ...
Journal of Interior Design, Mar 1, 2022
Herd: Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 2008
Biological and medical research offer rigorous techniques and scientific methodologies to explore... more Biological and medical research offer rigorous techniques and scientific methodologies to explore how features of the built environment influence human health, performance, and well-being. Practice guidelines from evidence-based medicine and translational science provide models for translating biomedical information into design principles applicable to healthcare environments. Examples from recent scientific discoveries highlight how scientific evidence may inform healthcare design. The interaction between stress and environmental stimuli such as light, sound, and location are relevant to patients, visitors, and staff, influencing cardiac and stress responses as well as cognitive functions such as memory and navigation abilities. Research demonstrating the pervasive influence of light on human biological systems includes epidemiological and laboratory studies that suggest an association between light exposure and increased cardiac or cancer risk. Advances in laboratory research and the development of wearable devices that may be used on-site in healthcare settings facilitate more precise measurement of the environmental features that influence healthcare users and providers. The data derived may serve as the foundation for new evidence-based performance criteria, supporting the use of existing materials and methods, as well as the creation of new design solutions to meet health needs in addition to operational outcomes.
Journal of Interior Design, Mar 1, 2022
Herd: Health Environments Research & Design Journal, Jul 1, 2008
Purpose: There is a clear call for a single-source knowledge base linking literature on architect... more Purpose: There is a clear call for a single-source knowledge base linking literature on architecture and human outcomes. However, this seemingly simple need relies upon a vast source of information from multiple disciplines, each with their own vocabulary, structures, and modes of disciplinary thought. Background: The “Information Age” provides an abundance of research from the sciences as well as the humanities. Despite unprecedented access via public and licensed databases, searching across knowledge repositories remains a labor-intensive and skilled task. It therefore behooves the design profession to collaborate with experts in research, and to seek new skills for searching, interpreting, and applying evidence to design. Methods: The pattern of database usage by 71 professionals involved with evidence-based design in healthcare facilities was studied. Respondents represented a range of interests including healthcare practitioners and executives, researchers, and design professionals. Findings: Survey analysis revealed that a large number of information repositories are used (45), though few sources were used in common among the respondents. Recommendations: Knowledge informatics strategies are reviewed, and concepts put forward advocating the design of an information source with multiple portals, vocabularies, and outputs to serve design, research, and healthcare practitioners alike.
The intersection of neuroscience and architecture offers new perspectives and approaches to an in... more The intersection of neuroscience and architecture offers new perspectives and approaches to an international community who use rigorous research from neuroscience to inform design innovations for the benefit of all. This paper explores a process of universal design innovation that has been applied in a pragmatic model for teaching and adoption in design practice, architecture and planning policy. Scientific principles revealing sensory processing, space perception, emotion, motion and cognition are incorporated in a practical grid that integrates neuro-scientific findings to inform 'research-based design' innovations, recommendations and priorities. The adoption of research-based principles in professional practice include analysis of clinical and physiological studies of the environmental responses of people with multiple needs. This approach is examined in the context of a pedagogical study of design studios and neuro-universal lecture courses at four universities, and for the Berkeley Prize Universal Design Teaching Fellowship. The opportunities provided by peer-to-peer and pre-studio working groups, as well as iterative interaction among students, educators, and individuals with disabilities are explored.
Building Simulation Conference Proceedings
The effects of building design on human circadian rhythms have been linked to health, behavior, a... more The effects of building design on human circadian rhythms have been linked to health, behavior, and performance outcomes. Limited options, however, are available for predicting circadian stimuli during the design process, other than via quantification of a single variable known as melanopic illuminance. Several additional circadian illuminance quantities (including rhodopic-, cyanopic-, chloropic-, and erythropic-lux) have not, to date, been utilized in simulating circadian exposure. We demonstrate how daylight, spatial, and material choices may alter the contribution of five currently-known photoreceptor channels to regulating circadian rhythms. This novel 3D rendering system will also support future circadian research and applied solutions.
Journal of Interior Design, 2022
The intersection of neuroscience and architecture offers new perspectives and approaches to an in... more The intersection of neuroscience and architecture offers new perspectives and approaches to an international community who use rigorous research from neuroscience to inform design innovations for the benefit of all. This paper explores a process of universal design innovation that has been applied in a pragmatic model for teaching and adoption in design practice, architecture and planning policy. Scientific principles revealing sensory processing, space perception, emotion, motion and cognition are incorporated in a practical grid that integrates neuro-scientific findings to inform ‘research-based design’ innovations, recommendations and priorities. The adoption of research-based principles in professional practice include analysis of clinical and physiological studies of the environmental responses of people with multiple needs. This approach is examined in the context of a pedagogical study of design studios and neuro-universal lecture courses at four universities, and for the Ber...
HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 2008
Purpose: There is a clear call for a single-source knowledge base linking literature on architect... more Purpose: There is a clear call for a single-source knowledge base linking literature on architecture and human outcomes. However, this seemingly simple need relies upon a vast source of information from multiple disciplines, each with their own vocabulary, structures, and modes of disciplinary thought. Background: The “Information Age” provides an abundance of research from the sciences as well as the humanities. Despite unprecedented access via public and licensed databases, searching across knowledge repositories remains a labor-intensive and skilled task. It therefore behooves the design profession to collaborate with experts in research, and to seek new skills for searching, interpreting, and applying evidence to design. Methods: The pattern of database usage by 71 professionals involved with evidence-based design in healthcare facilities was studied. Respondents represented a range of interests including healthcare practitioners and executives, researchers, and design professio...
HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 2009
Objective: The design of the consultation room remains largely unaltered despite major changes in... more Objective: The design of the consultation room remains largely unaltered despite major changes in clinical practice, such as the electronic medical record and patient-centered care. The value of redesigning the consultation room to accommodate these changes and the effect of a redesign on patient-clinician interaction are unclear. Methods: The authors randomly allocated 65 patient-physician dyads to consultations in a standard room ( n = 30) or in an experimental room designed with a semicircular table around which the clinician and the patient sat, with equal access to the computer screen ( n = 35). Participant responses to post-visit surveys, assessing patient experiences in these rooms, were compared in an intention-to-treat fashion. Results: The authors found no differences between the rooms in terms of patient satisfaction with the consultation, mutual respect, or communication quality. Compared to the standard room, patients in the experimental room were better able to interac...
Biomedical sciences instrumentation, 2008
Autoregressive and fast Fourier transform spectral analyses of high-frequency heart rate variabil... more Autoregressive and fast Fourier transform spectral analyses of high-frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV) result in exponentially-distributed values that make standard parametric statistical analyses problematic. In this paper, we evaluate three transforms of raw HF-HRV spectral power. Two occur commonly in the literature (a natural log [ln] transform and a reactivity transform); a third is novel (a "percent deviation from the mean" transform). A single data set was used, with each subject providing two data points and for which we predicted a significant difference in HF-HRV power. We quantified the effect size of each transform by noting the percentage of (non)overlap between the +/- 1 standard errors surrounding the two period means, with less overlap indicating a stronger effect. Overlap was 19.2% in the raw data (Fig 1b.), 3.7% in the ln transform (Fig. 2b), -57.1% in the reactivity transform (Fig. 3b), and -70.2% in the percent deviation transform (Fig. 4b). The ...
HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 2008
Biological and medical research offer rigorous techniques and scientific methodologies to explore... more Biological and medical research offer rigorous techniques and scientific methodologies to explore how features of the built environment influence human health, performance, and well-being. Practice guidelines from evidence-based medicine and translational science provide models for translating biomedical information into design principles applicable to healthcare environments. Examples from recent scientific discoveries highlight how scientific evidence may inform healthcare design. The interaction between stress and environmental stimuli such as light, sound, and location are relevant to patients, visitors, and staff, influencing cardiac and stress responses as well as cognitive functions such as memory and navigation abilities. Research demonstrating the pervasive influence of light on human biological systems includes epidemiological and laboratory studies that suggest an association between light exposure and increased cardiac or cancer risk. Advances in laboratory research and ...
Journal of Interior Design, 2022
Sustainable Environmental Design in Architecture, 2011
... Acknowledgements The Neuroscience Design team acknowledges Calit2 and UCSD for sup-porting th... more ... Acknowledgements The Neuroscience Design team acknowledges Calit2 and UCSD for sup-porting the projects described here including the contributions of ... We also acknowledge Randy Peterson and Alvaro Velasquez for use of their models, and a generous gift in support of ...