Publications & Best Practices
Peer reviewed reports, journal articles and book chapters
WHITE PAPERS
COVID-19 Task Force Reports & Tools
Frontline Task Force
AIA COVID-19 Guidance
Clinician design perspectives & tool for healthcare settings
COVID-19 Frontline Perspective: Whitepaper & Checklist Tool
Eve A. Edelstein, Ruth Fanning, Anita Honkanen, John Riordan, Diana Anderson, et al.
American Institute of Architects, Washington DC, June 22, 2020.
AIA COVID-19 Task Force Whitepaper & Checklist includes clinicians perspectives on: New design challenges imposed by the novel coronavirus; Value of an alliance of clinical, subject matter, and design experts; Front Line informed checklist for COVID-19 Care Facilities. The Front Line Working Group of the AIA COVID-19 Task Force was comprised of emergency medicine, intensive care, anesthesia, nursing and hospital administrators, scientists and designers who collaborated to validate new design recommendations. The report and checklist translate institutional reports, publications, and the emerging findings available during the early phase of the COVID-19 (February - April 2020).
“Knowledge of the COVID-19 disease, its pathogenesis, and treatment options are evolving daily, and the dynamic nature of the disease and its management ultimately determine space planning needs and design options.”
AIA COVID-19 Task Force
Alternate Care Sites Report
April 6, 2020
Checklist ACS AIA COVID-19
Alternate Care Site Checklist
DESIGN FOR MENTAL, BEHAVIORAL & NEURAL PATIENTS
Design for Dementia:
WORKPLACES
The Role of Design in Burnout
Can managing acoustic stimuli in the workplace help reduce burnout?
Delos, 2019
BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Chapter: Neuroscience and Architecture
Eve A. Edelstein
Kanaani, Mitra, and Dak Kopec, eds. The Routledge companion for architecture design and practice: established and emerging trends. Routledge, 2015.
Abstract
“The term “neuroarchitecture” has long been used to denote the brain’s form and function. Increasingly, architects have adopted this term to describe a new field of study that explores how the form of architecture may better serve human function and generate delight.” A large body of neuroscientific research demonstrates how specific physical attributes of the built environment influence sensory, perceptual, kinetic, emotional, cognitive or behavioral functions.
Book Chapter: Form Follows Function: Bridging Neuroscience and Architecture
Eve A. Edelstein; Eduardo Macagno
Rassia, Stamatina Th, and Panos M. Pardalos, eds. Sustainable environmental design in architecture: impacts on health. Vol. 56. Springer Science & Business Media, 2012.
Abstract
"“Primum non nocere”, the guiding principle of medicine credited to Hippocrates, emphatically asks that we first do no harm; our architectural principles must serve the same goal. Yet, too often the form and function of architectural environments neglect to take into account the influence of the built setting on human responses and indeed, on human health itself. An emerging discipline, one that bridges neuroscience and architecture, is beginning to provide more rigorous methodologies and a growing number of research reports that explores the interaction between brain, body, building and the environment.”
Book Chapter: Intensive Care Unit Design: Current Standards and Future Trends
Diana C. Anderson; Neil A. Halpern
Irwin, Richard S., and James M. Rippe, eds. Irwin and Rippe's Intensive care medicine. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008.
“Hospital-based intensivist administrators at some point in their careers may be asked to participate in designing new or renovating existing ICUs. For simplicity of presentation we have divided this chapter into five sections; the ICU design process, the ICU patient room, central clinical, visitor and staff support and administrative areas, ICU informatics, and future trends. While we classify these areas separately, they are indeed heavily interrelated.”
JOURNAL ARTICLES
The Art of Medicine: The Convergence of Architectural Design and Health
Diana C. Anderson; Steph A. Pang; Desmond O’Neill; Eve A. Edelstein
Anderson DC, Pang SA, O’Neill D, Edelstein EA. The Art of Medicine: The convergence of architectural design and health. The Lancet; December 8, 2018; 392: 2432-2433
Abstract
“The disciplines of public and environmental health have long recognised the impact of the built environment on health. Yet clinicians have limited opportunity to engage with architects and design professionals, and the impact of health-care design is largely absent from health policy discussions. However, this is beginning to change.”
Clinicians Dive Into Hospital Design
Eve A. Edelstein; Diana C. Anderson
12 April, 2018
"Researchers from health care and design backgrounds have been increasingly focusing on how the layout and allocation of space in hospitals can promote the well-being of both patients and clinicians."
Informatics for the Modern Intensive Care Unit
Diana C. Anderson; Ashley A. Jackson; Neil A. Halpern
January/March 2018
“Advanced informatics systems can help improve health care delivery and the environment of care for critically ill patients. However, identifying, testing, and deploying advanced informatics systems can be quite challenging. These processes often require involvement from a collaborative group of health care professionals of varied disciplines with knowledge of the complexities related to designing the modern and “smart” intensive care unit (ICU).” This article explores a host of patient care initiatives, and the core informatics concepts necessary for both the design and implementation of advanced informatics systems.
Simulatin Circadian Light: Multi-Dimensional Illuminance Analysis
Proceedings of the 15TH IBPSA Conference, San Francisco
Phillip H. Ewing; John Haymaker; Eve A. Edelstein
August, 2017
Technologies are emerging that can predict and reveal the reactions of the mind and body to specific features of the built environment. This paper reviews a 3D simulation model using 5 circadian peak stimuli to conduct pre-design evaluations of the distribution and interaction of light with building architecture, materials and finishes.
Research-Based Design: New Approaches to the Creation of Healthy Environments
Edelstein EA. Research-based design: new approaches to the creation of healthy environments. World Health Design Journal; October 2013; 62–69
“As healthcare design increasingly incorporates sustainable-design guidelines, we can apply the evidence derived to address human needs that go beyond reduction of noxious and toxic exposures. Architectural, technical and medical knowledge can, in this manner, accelerate such best practice to enhance human experience, performance and health itself. These applications of new technologies sit at the interface between neuroscience and architecture, and enables the provision of more rigorous data for research-based design. The ultimate goal is to support the design of healthy places for all: the healthy, the infirm, the gifted, and those with special needs, and to promote and enhance health and wellbeing across all peoples.”
Wireless Psychological Monitoring and Ocular Tracking: 3D Calibration in a Fully-Immersive Virtual Healthcare Environment
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Lelin Zhang; Yu Mike Chi; Eve Edelstein; Jurgen Schulze; Klaus Gramann; Alvaro Velasquez; Gert Cauwenberghs; Eduardo Macagno
11 November, 2010
Wireless physiological/neurological monitoring in virtual reality (VR) offers a unique opportunity for unobtrusively quantifying human responses to precisely controlled and readily modulated VR representations of health care environments. Here we present a wireless, light-weight head-mounted system for measuring electrooculogram (EOG) and electroencephalogram (EEG) activity in human subjects interacting with and navigating in the Calit2 StarCAVE, a five-sided immersive 3-D visualization VR environment. We demonstrate the tracking of gaze focus in a novel calibration procedure for estimating eye movements in response to dynamic visual cues in the StarCAVE.
The Effects of Colour and Light: Trans-Disciplinary Research Results
Design and Health Scientific Review
Eve A. Edelstein Ph.D; Steven Doctors; Robert Brandt; Barbara Denton; Galen Cranz, Ph.D; Robert Mangel, PhD; W. Mike Martin, PhD; Gordon H. Chong
April, 2008
The College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Latrobe Fellowship team explored the value of a collaborative evidence-based design approach in a pilot study of the effect of colour and lighting on patient well-being. The research investigated the impact of light on brainwaves and heart-rate variability, and found highly statistically significant differences between heart rate intervals duirng 15 minutes of red compared with blue light, suggesting a rapid response to electrical lighting that measurably impacts the mind and body.