*Pre-Conference Workshop: (4 AIA Learning Units)
Technology for Research Based Design
2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Thursday, September 20, 2012
University of California, San Diego: Calit2 Interdisciplinary Research Facility

2:00pm - 3:00pm

Edelstein & Otto: Reduction of Medical Error by Design: How the Neuroscience of Hearing Informs Healthcare Design:
Report on a virtual sound simulation system for immersive virtual environments that informs designers about the importance of enhancing speech intelligibility through acoustical design in order to reduce error in the clinical setting.

Macagno et al: Intro to CAVE
Introduction to the Calit2 facility, the technology it offers to interdisciplinary research teams, and especially the StarCAVE, the SoundCAVE and portable brain scanning technology.

3:00pm - 4:00pm

Group 1: Macagno/Zeisel Interface: Research Technology and Architectural Design for the Changing Age and Health Profiles of our Society

Group 2: CAVE Tour

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Group 1: CAVE Tour

Group 2: Macagno/Zeisel Interface: Research Technology and Architectural Design for the Changing Age and Health Profiles of our Society

5:00pm - 6:00pm

Ellis/McEachron: Chronobioengineering - Chronobiology & photobiology as criteria for the design of environments for older adults, especially those with dementia.

Panel Discussion/Q&A: Macagno, Zeisel, Edelstein, Ellis, McEachron

 

*Admission into the Pre-Conference Workshop is sold separately. If you would like to attend the Pre-Conference events, please select this option when registering.  

 

Conference Day 1: 7:30 am – 8:00 pm
Friday, September 21, 2012
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA

7:30am - 8:30am Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30am - 8:45am Whitelaw: General Welcome, Introduction & Recognitions
8:45am – 9:00am Eberhard: ANFA’s architectural context
9:00am – 10:00am Keynote: Dr. Gage: Do Changes in the Environment Affect the Brain? (1 LU)
10:00am – 10:30am Coffee and Poster Sessions
10:30am – 11:30am Interface Panel: Gage/Fentress/Squire/Quigley: Neuroscience & Design: A Dialog (1 LU)
11:30am – 12:30pm Contributed Presentations
  Barton & Ellard: Navigating Urban Spaces Demands Attention: Evidence for Physiological indices of arousal and visual attention
  Dooley & Dooley: Kinetic Design for Enriched Environments
   
12:30pm - 1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm – 2:30pm Contributed Presentations:
  Farbstein & Farling:  Effects of Simulated Nature View on Cognitive & Psycho-physiological Responses
  Nanda & Pati: Lessons from Neuroscience: Building Blocks for Charting new Frontiers
  Dzebic, Perdue & Ellard: Influence of Visual Perception on Responses to
Real-World Environments
2:30pm – 3:00pm Coffee and Poster Sessions
3:00pm – 4:00pm

Interface Panel: Macagno/Cooke/Banasiak/Tarampi: Education at the
Interface between the Disciplines (1 LU)

4:00pm - 5:00pm Contributed Presentations:
  Chalup, Ostwald & Walla: Stimulating Mechanisms of Emotion Associated with Visual Perception of Urban Space: An Artificial Agent's Perspective
  Nereim: Loose Neural Nets in Architecture
  Michler, Bhatt & Schultheis: Analyses of Mental Spatial Transformation during
Early Design Conception: Experiments with the Mind
5:00pm - 6:00pm Wine Reception**
6:00pm - 7:30pm Dinner**
7:30pm – 7:50pm Torrey & Edelstein: The Neuroscience of Extraordinary Places

             

**Admission into the wine reception and dinner is sold separately. If you would like to attend this event, please select this option when registering.  

 

Conference Day Two: 7:30 am – 5:00 pm
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Salk Institute of Biological Sciences: La Jolla, CA

7:30am - 8:30am Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30am – 8:35am Whitelaw: Welcome & Introduction & Recognitions
8:35am - 8:45am Cooke/Zeisel: Harold Hay Grant Program Announcement
8:45am - 9:45am Keynote: Dr. Albright: From the Look of the Room: Can Visual Neuroscience inform the Design of Human Spaces? (1 LU)
9:45am – 10:15am   Coffee and Poster Sessions
10:15am - 11:15am Interface Panel: Marks/Panda/Edelstein/Rea et al: Research that informs
Lighting Design in Healthcare Settings
(1 LU)
11:15am – 12:15pm Contributed Presentations
  Dobkins, Smallman & Heyman: Visual Environments for Infants & Children
  Figueiro, Levent, Sahin, Rea: Impact of Blue & Red Lights on Objective &
Subjective Alertness
  Furl, Miller, Rao & Tassinary: Time Course of Natural Scene Processing
12:15pm – 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm – 1:30pm Coffee and Poster Sessions
1:30pm – 2:10pm Contributed Presentations
  Bermudez, Krizaj, Lipschitz, Yurgelun-Todd & Nakamura:  Architecturally
Induced Contemplative States 
  Wheatcroft: Past, Present & Future Memory Informed by Reverberation Characteristics of Worship & performance Spaces
2:10pm – 2:30pm    Mallgrave: Empathy and Embodied Simulation
2:30pm – 2:50pm Epilogue: Koonce, Whitelaw & Albright
3:00pm – 5:00pm Tours of the Salk Institute & Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine
(1.5 LU)