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Rockcastle Awarded the 2021 ARCC New Researcher Award

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Rockcastle Awarded the 2021 ARCC New Researcher Award
“The ARCC New Researcher Award celebrates the activities, accomplishments and promise of scholars in the early stages of their research career. The ARCC New Researcher Award is intended to acknowledge emerging figures in architectural and environmental design research that demonstrate innovation in thinking, dedication in scholarship, contributions to the academy, and leadership.

Based on the exploratory and creative nature of the research in human-centric daylighting design using advanced simulation methods, and promise in the field, the ARCC Board of Directors is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2021 ARCC New Researcher Award is Siobhan Rockcastle.” – ARCC Press Release

Sign-up for ‘Simulation and Visualization’

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Sign-up for ‘Simulation and Visualization’

Professor Rockcastle will teach a 4-credit advanced technical elective this fall called, ‘Building Simulation and Visualization.’ This remote course will introduce students to simulation software and techniques for analyzing the performance of lighting, thermal comfort, and energy in buildings. Enrollment will be limited to 10 undergraduate and 15 graduate students.

Rockcastle invited to speak at the 2021 Lighting R&D Workshop, hosted by the DOE and IES

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Rockcastle invited to speak at the 2021 Lighting R&D Workshop, hosted by the DOE and IES

Assistant Professor Siobhan Rockcastle has been invited to present Baker Lighting Lab research on Virtual Reality and lighting perception using head-mounted and web-based devices.  This workshop, hosted jointly by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) will take place online February 1-4, 2021 and is free and open to the public. Rockcastle will present Baker Lighting Lab research on February 3rd, 2021 in the session on ‘Incorporating New Tools to Advance Lighting Products and Practice in 2021’ from 3pm-4:30pm EST.  For more info on the schedule, check here.

Lecture on “Factors in Daylight Analysis” at the Pacific Energy Center on October 22nd

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Lecture on “Factors in Daylight Analysis” at the Pacific Energy Center on October 22nd

Sign-up for a 2.5 hour webinar on “Factors in Daylight Analysis” with Siobhan Rockcastle and Kevin Van Den Wymelenberg, hosted by the Pacific Energy Center, on October.  More information about the webinar can be found here:

https://pge.docebosaas.com/learn/course/external/view/webinar/613/factors-in-daylighting-analysis

Kyu-Ho Ahn and Siobhan Rockcastle receive the Frances Bronet Innovation Award

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Professors Ahn and Rockcastle have been selected to receive a Faculty Research Award from the UO College of Design in support of their project, titled “Motivation/Function, Comfort, Arousal and Behavioral Response in Built Environment via VR Setting.” This work will combine subjective and physiological measures to study responses to lighting and space use in a virtual reality environment. Baker Lab Graduate Assistant McKenzie Vanko will support Ahn and Rockcastle in the design and collection of experimental data planned for the 2020-2021 year.

Best Paper Award at SimAUD 2020

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Best Paper Award at SimAUD 2020

On May 27th, Megan Danell (Baker Lighting Lab), Maria Amundadottir (OCULIGHT analytics), and Siobhan Rockcastle  (Baker Lighting Lab) were awarded the Best Paper Award at SimAUD 2020.  Their paper, titled ‘Evaluating Temporal and Spatial Light Exposure Profiles for Typical Building Occupants,’ was selected from among 72 peer-reviewed and accepted papers for it’s quality, originality, and significance.  To read our paper, you may access it online here.  SimAUD is an international Symposium on Simulation in Architecture and Urban Design and just celebrated its 11th consecutive year through on online venue (original planned for Vienna, but made virtual in response to COVID-19).

Check out our virtual presentation for SimAUD 2020

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Check out our virtual presentation for SimAUD 2020

Due to the unique global circumstances surrounding 2020, SimAUD has gone entirely online this year.  Check out the virtual recording of our paper titled, “Evaluating Temporal and Spatial Light Exposure Profiles for Typical Building Occupants.”  This work was co-authored by Megan Danell, Maria Amundadottir, and Siobhan Rockcastle and represents an interdisciplinary, simulation-based approach to assessing circadian lighting through building occupant profiles.

Collaborative Research on Occupant-Centric Circadian Health Presented at Build Health 2020

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Collaborative Research on Occupant-Centric Circadian Health Presented at Build Health 2020

Recent simulation-based research conducted by Siobhan Rockcastle (Baker), Megan Danell (Baker), Maria Amundadottir (OCULIGHT analytics), Robert Lochner (SRG) and Lisa Petterson (SRG) was just presented at the Institute for Health in the Built Environment’s Annual Industry Consortium Symposium, Build Health 2020.  This research uses simulation to compute occupant-specific light exposure profiles for 38 occupants in a side-lit office space, accommodating their spatial and temporal dynamics as they move throughout the office.  A version of this work will be presented at the ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings in August.

Paper accepted to the ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings

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Paper accepted to the ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings

A paper co-authored by Siobhan Rockcastle (Baker), Megan Danell (Baker), Lisa Petterson (SRG Partnership), and Maria Ámundadóttir (OCULIGHT analytics) has been accepted for oral presentation at the ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency on Buildings. This paper, titled ‘The Impact of Behavior on Healthy Circadian Light Exposure Under Daylight and Electric Lighting Scenarios,’ presents a simulation-based method to compare the healthy light exposure of dynamic spatial and temporal occupant profiles using surveyed data.

Baker researchers go Virtual with a grant from PNNL

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Researchers from the Baker Lighting Lab will compare the perceptual accuracy of LED lighting environments using a range of industry leading VR HMDs. In a time of physical separation from the world around us, our team of student and faculty researchers will explore differences in visual perception between the screens that define our virtual frontier. This work is supported by the generous support of a grant from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.