Program in Environmental Design
Campus Box 314 UCB
ENVD Building 104
SM调教所
Boulder, CO 80309鈥�0314
Meredith Banasiak, M.Arch., EDAC, is a Senior Instructor in the Program in Environmental Design. Meredith鈥檚 research and teaching interest lies in examining the connection between the environment, body and brain using the lens of cognitive science in order to inform design applications which support and optimize human functionality, comfort and performance. Meredith was a former Research Assistant with the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA) is a current member of ANFA鈥檚 Advisory Council. In 2012, she launched Humans and Buildings Laboratory (HabLab), a research group committed to studying interactions between people and environmental settings established with funding from a University of Colorado Innovative Seed Grant Program award. HabLab鈥檚 broad research aim is to expose people to various environmental stimuli in program-specific contextual settings and measure the impact on cognitive performance, physiological correlates of stress and emotional regulation, and self-reports of emotion.
Selected Publications:
Lindberg, C., Banasiak, M., & Tran, D. (in press). 鈥淚ndividual differences in the office: The interaction of personality factors and workplace enclosure鈥�. JAPR.
Banasiak, M., Lindberg, C., Green, B. & Berman, M. (2014). 鈥淚n search of beneficial distractions: exploring restorative environmental in workplace design鈥�, 2014 ANFA Conference Proceedings. ANFA 鈥� Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture.
Kalbfleisch L, DeBettencourt MT, Kopperman R, Banasiak M, Roberts JM and Halavi M (2013). 鈥淓nvironmental influences on neural systems of relational complexity鈥�,聽Front. Psychol.聽4:631. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00631
Banasiak, M. (2012). 鈥淐ultivating a culture for Neuroarchitecture: Linking cognitive science to architectural experience in design education鈥�, 2012 ANFA Conference Proceedings. ANFA - Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture.
Sullivan, J., Banasiak, M. and Messick, C. (2009). 鈥淪ocial-technical tools for sensemaking and sketching鈥�, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) International 2009 Conference Proceedings, Springer.
Iguchi C., Banasiak M., Shaw A., Kopperman B., Kalbfleisch, M.L. (2007). 鈥淢ethods for Retaining Ecological Validity in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Paradigms鈥�. Gordon Research Conference on Magnetic Resonance, Biddeford, ME.
Kalbfleisch, M.L., Banasiak, M. (2007). 鈥淪pecial Populations: Giftedness and ADHD鈥�, In: Callahan, C., Plucker, J. (Eds.) What Research Says About鈥�: An Encyclopedia on Research in Gifted Education. National Association for Gifted Children, Washington, D.C. Prufrock Press.