School of the Environment Photovoice Research

Summary: “My proposed topic is focused on finding ways that buildings can encourage an active lifestyle for people. My experience as an elite athlete for seven years and as a personal trainer has shown me the importance of a healthy lifestyle. In my research trainee position with Professor Alstan Jakubiec I work on a pilot study to find an effective way of coding people’s activities in buildings for the purpose of assessing the effect of the building on the health and wellbeing of the occupants. From May 2022 – Sept 2022, I will be working with an image-based dataset, learning coding/labeling techniques, utilizing machine learning classification tools & language processing tools, and developing data management techniques to form subjective survey data. This is just the beginning of my journey in research. I am learning how research can help architects make informed decisions that can make buildings more effective in helping their inhabitants. Conducting new research breathes new life into a mature discipline.”