BOSS

Building Occupants Signal Synthesis

Xingtong Guo, Rachel Hurley, and Professor Shichao Liu presented their research at the 18th Indoor Air Conference. We shared six talks, including four posters and two podium presentations related to our research on the impacts of indoor environmental quality, climate change, and COVID-19 on cognition and mental health. 

Xingtong Guo presented a podium talk titled “Indoor heat stress impairs emotional and physical states during extreme heat”

Xingtong presented a podium talk on how indoor heat stress impairs emotional and physical states during extreme heat, alongside a poster detailing students’ reading comprehension performance under varied light color and thermal conditions. Professor Liu contributed a poster based on the work of Chao Wang on cognition in car cabins using hybrid fNIRS and EEG technologies to investigate cognitive responses. 

Professor Liu presenting poster titled “Influence of the Car-cabin Environment on Drivers’ Cognitive Performance using Hybrid fNIRS and EEG.”

Rachel delivered a podium presentation on the impacts of facemask wearing on perceptions of learning or working performance during COVID-19. Additionally, she presented two posters: one on elevated CO2 levels in the breathing zone and another titled “Health Symptoms and Mitigation Behaviors Are Associated with Olfactory Perception of Indoor Wildfire Smoke,” which was one of three student posters to receive an honorable mention