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Zimring, Craig

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Creating Knowledge Bases for Design and Facility Management

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996) Zimring, Craig ; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Architecture

Despite their increasing numbers, post-occupancy evaluation reports often languish on shelves rather than serving as the basis of future renovation, design, or facility management. One reason for this is that information is scattered and difficult to find, and knowledge bases appear to offer the possibility to solve these problems. In this workshop we examine several recent efforts to create paper and computerized knowledge bases of environmental design evaluation information. We briefly discuss: (1) the Archie Project, a five-year collaboration between environmental design researchers and computer scientists at Georgia Tech aimed at creating a computerized case-based design aid; (2) the US Embassies POE Database Project, a computer database being created to provide staff and consultants of the Foreign Building Operations with access to POE information and other lessons learned; (3) Younger Workers Housing Mementos, a French multi-year effort aimed at using evaluation to generate collaboration between designers and administrators; (4) a medical laboratory database. These efforts raise several theoretical and practical questions that will be discussed in this workshop session: (1) How does one get started in creating an environmental design knowledge base? (2) Who are expected audiences for these knowledge bases and how are they to use the information? For example, what should be different about knowledge bases for design students, professional designers, facility managers, or upper administrators? How does focusing on one audience or another affect the content, database structure and interface? (3) Where does content come from? Who enters information in a knowledge base? Who keeps it current? (4) How can information be categorized and indexed? (5) What software packages are available and what are their relative advantages and disadvantages? Participants include Michel Conan (Centre Scientifique et Technique du Batiment), Thierry Rosenheck (U.S. Department. of State), Wolfgang Preiser (Cincinnati), and Sonit Bafna, Saif-ul Hag, & Sharon Tsepas (Georgia Tech), and as discussant, Jay Farbstein (Farbstein & Associates).
Designing for Effective and Safe Multidisciplinary Primary Care Teamwork: Using the Time of COVID-19 as a Case Study

( 2021-08) Lim, Lisa ; Zimring, Craig ; DuBose, Jennifer R. ; Lee, Jaehoon ; Stroebel, Robert J. ; Matthews, Marc R. ; Georgia Institute of Technology. SimTigrate Design Lab ; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Design ; Texas Tech University. College of Architecture ; Mayo Clinic. Rochester, MN

Effective medical teamwork can improve the effectiveness and experience of care for staff and patients, including safety. Healthcare organizations, and especially primary care clinics, have sought to improve medical teamwork through improved layout and design, moving staff into shared multidisciplinary team rooms. While co-locating staff has been shown to increase communi-cation, successful designs balance four teamwork needs: face-to-face communications; situational awareness; heads-down work; perception of teamness. However, precautions for COVID-19 make it more difficult to conduct face-to-face communications. In this paper we describe a model for un-derstanding how layout affects these four teamwork needs and describe how the perception of teamwork by staff changed after COVID-19 precautions were put in place. Observations, interviews and two standard surveys were conducted in two primary care clinics before COVID-19 and again in 2021 after a year of precautions. In general, staff felt more isolated and found it more difficult to conduct brief consults, though these perceptions varied by role. RNs, who spent more time on the phone, found it convenient to work part time-from home, while medical assistants found it more difficult to find providers in the distanced clinics. These cases suggest some important considera-tions for future clinic designs, including greater physical transparency that also allow for physical separation and more spaces for informal communication that are distanced from workstations.
Impacts of the physical environment on health care

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006-08-31) Zimring, Craig ; Rashid, Mahbub ; Georgia Institute of Technology. Office of Sponsored Programs ; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Architecture ; Georgia Institute of Technology. Office of Sponsored Programs
Preparation of an instructional module

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 1981) Wineman, Jean ; Zimring, Craig ; Georgia Institute of Technology. Office of Sponsored Programs ; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Architecture ; Georgia Institute of Technology. Office of Sponsored Programs
Lighting the patient room of the future: Evaluating different lighting conditions from the patient perspective

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021) DuBose, Jennifer R. ; Davis, Robert G. ; Campiglia, Gabrielle ; Wilkerson, Andrea ; Zimring, Craig ; Georgia Institute of Technology. SimTigrate Design Lab ; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Design ; Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

This study explores whether “future” lighting systems that provide greater control and opportunity for circadian synchronization are acceptable to participants in the role of patients.Tunable, dimmable light emitting diode(LED)systems provide multiple potential benefits for healthcare. They can provide significant energy savings, support circadian synchronization by varying the spectrum and intensity of light over the course of the day, address nighttime navigation needs, and provide user-friendly control. There is an emerging understanding of the important visual and non-visual effects of light,however, important questions remain about the experience and acceptability of this “future” lighting if we are to adopt it broadly.
Promoting physical activity through the design and planning of public buildings

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004-02-20) Zimring, Craig ; Tsepas, Sharon ; Georgia Institute of Technology. Office of Sponsored Programs ; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Architecture ; Georgia Institute of Technology. Office of Sponsored Programs
Creating effective design tours for the 21st century hospital

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006-12-14) Zimring, Craig ; Georgia Institute of Technology. Office of Sponsored Programs ; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Architecture ; Georgia Institute of Technology. Office of Sponsored Programs
A Review of the Research Literature on Evidence-Based Healthcare Design

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008) Ulrich, Roger S. ; Zimring, Craig ; Zhu, Xuemei ; DuBose, Jennifer R. ; Seo, Hyun-Bo ; Choi, Young-Seon ; Quan, Xiaobo ; Joseph, Anjali ; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Design ; Georgia Institute of Technology. SimTigrate Design Lab ; Chalmers University of Technology ; Clemson University ; Texas A&M University ; Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.)

This report surveys and evaluates the scientific research on evidence-based healthcare design and extracts its implications for designing better and safer hospitals.
Design Now: A Panel Discussion

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013-10-04) Murray, Janet H. ; Zimring, Craig ; Starner, Thad ; Sprigle, Stephen ; Norman, Donald A. ; Georgia Institute of Technology. Center for Academic Enrichment ; Georgia Institute of Technology. Graduate Program in Digital Media ; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Architecture ; Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Industrial Design ; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Computing ; Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Applied Physiology ; Nielsen Norman Group

Panel discussion at College of Architecture on technology, evidence-based design, assistive technology, human-centered design. The primary audience will include Industrial Design, Architecture, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Science, and the local ID/HCI community.
Case-Based Decision Support: A Case Study in Architectural Design

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992) Zimring, Craig ; Pearce, Michael ; Goel, Ashok K. ; Kolodner, Janet L. ; Sentosa, Lucas Shindunata ; Billington, Richard ; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Architecture ; Galaxy Scientific Corporation ; Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Computing