Research
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Latest papers
An investigation into the use of smart home devices, user preferences, and impact during COVID-19.
Computers in human behavior reports · 2023
How central and peripheral vision influence focal and ambient processing during scene viewing.
Journal of vision · 2022 · senior author
Restorative effects of virtual nature settings.
Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking · 2010 · senior author
Latest funding
- $100,000
Urban environments and youth mental health: examining how adolescent mental health indicators are associated with urban design and cognitive architecture in a mid-sized Ontario city
CIHR · 2020 · Co-investigator
- $2,476,738
Living architecture systems
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
- $14,159
A workshop on emotive state actuated real-time interfaces
SSHRC · 2015 · Co-investigator
3 publications.
An investigation into the use of smart home devices, user preferences, and impact during COVID-19.
Ghafurian M, Ellard C, Dautenhahn K
How central and peripheral vision influence focal and ambient processing during scene viewing.
Srikantharajah J, Ellard C
Restorative effects of virtual nature settings.
Valtchanov D, Barton KR, Ellard C
Urban environments and youth mental health: examining how adolescent mental health indicators are associated with urban design and cognitive architecture in a mid-sized Ontario city
Principal investigators: Minaker, Leia
Keywords: Built Environment; Cognitive Architecture; Healthy Cities; Mental Health; Planning; Youth/Adolescence
Living architecture systems
Keywords: architecture; responsive structures; living architecture; synthetic biology; human-machine interaction; curriculum development; interdisciplinary working methods; cognitive psychology; new technologies; aesthetics
A workshop on emotive state actuated real-time interfaces
Principal investigators: Hosale, Mark-David
Keywords: computational media art; interoception; emotive; bioinformatic; performance art; movement theatre; installation performance; biofeedback; art science
Living Architecture Systems
Keywords: architecture; responsive structures; living architecture; synthetic biology; human-machine interaction; curriculum development; interdisciplinary working methods; cognitive psychology; new technologies; aesthetics
Measuring affect in urban spaces: development of toolkits for evidence-based urban design
Principal investigators: Ellard, Colin G.
Keywords: environmental psychology; virtual reality; urban design; psychophysiology
Methods of evaluating dopminergic contributions to perception during gait in Parkinson's disease
Principal investigators: Ehgoetz Martens, Kaylena A
Keywords: Basal Ganglia; Depth Perception; Dopaminergic Medication; Gait; Parkinson'S Disease; Perception; Proprioception; Self-Motion; Virtual Reality; Visual Processing
Paradigms for interactivity mutual and contestable relations in new responsive architecture
Principal investigators: Beesley, Philip L.
Keywords: interactive architecture; responsive; performative; empathy; environment; spatial cognition; mechatronics; self-organization; autopoiesis
Visualization and Biotelematics Environment
Principal investigators: O'Gorman, Marcel
Keywords: visualization, biotelematics, media theory, social psychology, cultural criticism, public health, physical computing, virtual reality, augmented reality, biofeedback, digital media
Exploring the relationship between culture and built form using immersive virtual reality
Principal investigators: Ellard, Colin G.
Keywords: culture; architecture; urban landscape; social interaction; psychophysiology
Cognition and the built environment: an examination of the wayfinding abilities and requirements of people with Alzheimer's disease in the urban environment
Principal investigators: Lewis, John L.
Keywords: environmental planning; design; Alzheimer's disease; wayfinding
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Kerstin Dautenhahn and Moojan Ghafurian: 43 shared papers
- Kerstin Dautenhahn and Colin Ellard: 1 shared paper
- Moojan Ghafurian and Colin Ellard: 1 shared paper
- Department of Psychology
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Department of Systems Design Engineering
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