Attention-Based Goals to Guide Pediatric Outpatient Design
This article distinguishes between engagement and distraction, and offers strategies to support each attentional state during a child’s outpatient clinic journey.
Children Youth & Environments | 2024

Designing for Persons with Eating Disorders
This article shares specialized strategies for designing treatment spaces for this continuously evolving patient population.
Healthcare Design Magazine | 2023

Evaluating Occupant Light Exposure and Usage Patterns in an Inpatient Behavioral Health Unit

How can we use wearables to characterize lighting exposures in real-world settings?
Health Environments Research & Design Journal (HERD) | 2023

Venetian Letter Interview 
An interview with Venetian Letter on person-centered design, architecture + neuroscience, and the future of research in design.
Venetian Letter | 2021

Designing for Cardiovascular Ambulatory Surgery Centers
What should designers and operators be building to be ready for the massive cardiovascular outmigration shift?
Cath Lab Digest | 2021

Putting the person in person-centered design: Correlating stress and place
What if we could measure stress as a dimension of place? We could use this information to understand how the spaces we design impact stress.
ONEdergrant Report | 2021

Sensory Experience in Museum Design
How do our senses interact and influence the museum experience? How does the environment alter a museum goer’s perceptions of art?
Excerpted in: When senses are in conflict: Hamilton Building at the Denver Art Museum
Contemporary Museum Architecture and Design | 2020

When nature calls: The importance of restroom design to support cognition
Where do we do our best thinking? It is possible that the most often overlooked space in building design is among the most important in supporting cognition.
Journal of Science-Informed Design | 2019

Bridging the Gap: Designing Clinics for Integrated Care
To support the delivery of integrated care, designers are optimizing clinics so interprofessional healthcare providers can collaborate and coordinate treatment plans.
Healthcare Design Magazine | 2018

Supporting eating disorder recovery through design
A translational application of neuroscience evidence to design for patients with eating disorders.
2018 Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture Conference Proceedings | 2018

Place and Wellbeing: The Next Frontier of Integrative Medicine
Overwhelmingly, evidence shows that health is directly correlated with the environment. It is thus imperative for integrative medicine practitioners to incorporate information about optimal environments in their toolkits for disease prevention.
Integrative Preventative Medicine | 2017

Nurturing relationships through the design of an oncology clinic
How can we support psychosocial relationships for oncology patients through building design?
Boulder Associates Architects | 2017

Designing for Individual Differences in the Workplace
Findings from this study suggest that individual differences must be considered in order to more fully understand how workers are affected by the design of their workplaces.
Journal of Architectural and Planning Research | 2016

Engaging Citizens and Transforming Designers
Analysis of a Campus-Community Partnership Through the Lens of Children’s Rights to Participation
Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship | 2016

Environmental influences on neural systems of relational complexity
We sought to determine how the visual environment influences relational complexity by examining the influence of color and visual contrast on relational complexity in a neuroimaging task.
Frontiers in Psychology | 2013

From Benchtop to Bedside: Research Lessons Learned in an Undergraduate Program
Is there a place for Design Research in undergraduate architectural education?
American Institute of Architects | 2009

Social-technical tools for sensemaking and sketching
This paper describes the design and evaluation of two prototype social-technical tools to support collaborative “same time, same place” sketching and sensemaking.
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) International 2009 Conference Proceedings | 2009

Giftedness and ADHD
This book chapter explores the coexistence of intellectual giftedness and Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), two disparate, complex conditions that present additional complexities when they are present in the same person.
Critical issues and practices in gifted education | 2008

Vera-Ellen: The Magic and the Mystery
A biography about an American dancer and actress.
McGraw Hill | 1999