Former students

Mustafa Ozcicek
Advisor(s): Derek Ham
Title of Dissertation: Sketching on Intelligent Mediums. (2024)

Raunak Mahtani
Advisor(s): Carolina Gill and Kelly Umstead
Title of Dissertation: Analyzing Research Practices, Mapping Problem Dynamics, and Fusing Frameworks: A Systemic Design Inquiry in Postpartum Healthcare. (2024)

Masoome Haghani
Advisor(s): Wayne Place
Title of Dissertation: Design and Development of an Innovative Daylighting System in Office Buildings: Prismatic Vertical Louvers (PVL). (2024)

Ghazal Kamyabjou
Advisor(s): Soolyeon Cho; Jeremiah Johnson
Title of Dissertation: Exploring Dynamics of Building Energy Consumption: Insights from Developing Countries in Central Asia. (2024)

Lizbeth Wardzinski
Advisor(s): Burak Erdim
Title of Dissertation: Model for the World: The Tennessee Valley Authority and Postwar Development. (2023)

Raaga Bhandari
Advisor(s): Robin Abrams
Title of Dissertation: Building Social Cohesion through Urban Design: The Efficacy of Public Space Design to Promote Place Attachment and Social Connections among Culturally Diverse Users within Urban Parks. (2023)

Ezgi Balkanay
Advisor(s): Burak Erdim
Title of Dissertation: Housing and Modernity: Entangled Stories of the Apartment and the Gecekondu in Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey, the 1930s-the 2010s. (2023)

Victoria Lanteigne
Advisor(s): Traci Rider
Title of Dissertation: Operationalizing Equity in the Built Environment: A Qualitative Case Study of Community-Engaged Design Outcomes. (2023)

Byeongmo Seo
Advisor(s): Soolyeon Cho
Title of Dissertation: Development of HVAC Optimal Control Algorithms for Cooling Energy Efficiency Improvement in Commercial Buildings Using Machine Learning and Digital Twin Technologies. (2023)

Gregory Garner
Advisor(s): Derek Ham
Title of Dissertation: The Designer’s Method: Understanding the Feedback You Collect During Prototyping. (2023)

Charleston (Dong-Jae) Yi
Advisor(s): Kofi Boone; Arthur Rice
Title of Dissertation: Developing Connections between Community Design Impacts and Sense of Community: How Participatory Processes and Designed Products from Them Influence Participants’ Sense of Community? (2023)

Elif Sener
Advisor(s): Matthew Peterson
Title of Dissertation: A Comparison of Memory Performances for Expository Scientific Prose and Diagram in Flat vs. Spatially Distributed Layouts in Virtual Reality. (2023)

Pegah Mathur
Advisor(s): Wayne Place
Title of Dissertation: Human-centered Design and Assessment of Innovative Daylighting Systems in Terms of Health Benefits in Office Setting in Tall Buildings.(2023)

Anantaya Grace Wonaphotimuke
Advisor(s): Deb Littlejohn
Title of Dissertation: Exploring the Influence of Mobile AR Learning Environment Intervention on College Students’ Learning Outcomes and Learning Experience. (2022)

Nicholas Serrano
Advisor(s): Kristen Schaffer
Title of Dissertation: Gracious Suburban Life: Landscape, Race, and the making of Place through Urban Development in Raleigh, N.C., 1910-1965. (2022)

Rachael Redmond – Paine
Advisor(s): Deborah Littlejohn
Title of Dissertation: Caring About the User’s State of Mind: Exploring the Online Health Information Seeking Behaviors of Rare Disease Caretakers. (2022)

Helia Taheri Pouresfahani
Advisor(s): Traci Rider
Title of Dissertation: Human-Building Interaction, Thermal Comfort and Indoor Air Quality in K-12 Schools (Before and During Covid-19): Suggestions for Stakeholders and Future Studies (2022)

Mohammad Salamati
Advisor(s): Wayne Place
Title of Dissertation: Design And Assessment of Integrated Building Systems (IBS) Incorporating a Prismatic Skylight Fenestration System (2022)

Meichun Liu
Advisor(s): Tsailu Liu
Title of Dissertation: An Agent-Based Approach to Adaptive Design Via Augmented Artifacts in a Complex System (2022)

Sahand Azarby
Advisor(s): Arthur Rice
Title of Dissertation: Using an Immersive Virtual Reality Interactive Environment (IVRIE) to Improve the Understanding of Spatial Factors in Design: Comparing User Spatial Perceptions Between IVRIE and Traditional Digital Design Environments (2021)

Grey Isley
Advisor(s): Dana Gulling; Traci Rider
Title of Dissertation: Examining Integrated Design Workflows that Support Building Performance Integration in Small Architectural Firms. (2021)

Payod Panda
Advisor(s): Derek Ham
Title of Dissertation: Immersive Technology in the Future of Work (2021)

Atieh Ameri
Advisor(s): Celen Pasalar
Title of Dissertation: The Effects of Physical and Non-Physical Dimensions of Place on the Formation of Place Image: the Influence of Online Information on the Interpretation of American Cities (2021)

Xing Huang
Advisor(s): Deborah Littlejohn
Title of Dissertation: An Exploration of Self-Tracking Data Visualization Design Strategies that Can Promote College Students’ Motivation to Exercise (2021)

Yeo Beom Yoon
Advisor(s): Soolyeon Cho
Title of Dissertation: Design and Analysis of an Advanced Double-Skin Façade System as a Window Retrofit in Old Apartments for Energy Savings (2021)

Seyyed Saeed Ahmadi Oloonabadi
Advisor(s): Perver Baran
Title of Dissertation: A Novel Mobile Augmented Reality Participatory Platform to Engage Under-Resourced Communities in Improving Neighborhood Walkability (2021)

Sepide Saiedlue
Advisor(s): Jianxin Hu
Title of Dissertation: Assessing Visual and Non-Visual Daylighting Performance of Electrochromic Glazing Systems Based on User Centered Lighting Design (2021)

Kendall McKenzie
Advisor(s): Sharon Joines; Maria Mayorga
Title of Dissertation: Toward a Convergence Research Framework for Hospital Interface Design: Integrating User Needs, Big Data, and Specialized Knowledge into Complex Decisions (2020)

Hongyang Liu
Advisor(s): Sharon Joines
Title of Dissertation: Interaction Design of New Technology for Older Adults from the Ease of Learning Perspective (2020)

Byungsoo Kim
Advisor(s): Sharon Joines
Title of Dissertation: Technology to Product Design Process (TPDP) for Design Education (2020)

Renae Mantooth
Advisor(s): Celen Pasalar
Title of Dissertation: The Influence of Physical Space on Academic Place: the Multi-Use Informal Learning Environment in Higher Education (2020)

Hany Gaballa
Advisor(s): Soolyeon Cho
Title of Dissertation: Improving Building Energy Efficiency Utilizing Machine Learning Technologies (2020)

Burcin Dogmusoz
Advisor(s): Arthur Rice
Title of Dissertation: The Factors Affecting Residents’ Willingness to Implement Green Infrastructure Strategies on their Property (2019)

Farzaneh Eftekhari
Advisor(s): Tsailu Liu
Title of Dissertation: Design Thinking Beyond Design Discipline: The Process of Knowledge Transfer (2019)

Xi Wang
Advisor(s): Jianxin Hu
Title of Dissertation: Optimize the Programming and Design of Assisted Living Facilities (2019)

Jinoh Park
Advisor(s): Traci Rider
Title of Dissertation: Increased Opportunities for Supporting Continuing Care Retirement Community Stability through Designed Built Environment with Supportive Services (2019)

Zahra Zamani
Advisor(s): Moore, Robin
Title of Dissertation: Affordance of Cognitive Play by Natural and Manufactured Elements and Settings in Preschool Outdoor Learning Environments (2018)

Jingyuan Fu
Advisor(s): Arthur Rice
Title of Dissertation: Assessing the Impact of Study Abroad Experience on the Creative Abilities of Design Students (2018)

Pamela Pease
Advisor(s): Meredith J. Davis
Title of Dissertation: Teaching and Learning to Risk: Design Pedagogy as a Catalyst for Innovation and Creative Risk-Taking in Secondary School Learning Environments (2018)

Pinar Ceyhan
Advisor(s): Deborah Kathleen Littlejohn
Title of Dissertation: Facilitated Museum Experience: How Mediated Interactions with Artworks Delivered via Mobile Technology Foster Intellectual Curiosity among College Students (2018)

Payam Tabrizian
Advisor(s): Perver Baran; Ross Meentemeyer
Title of Dissertation: Integrating Geospatial Computation, Virtual Reality and Tangible Interaction to Improve Landscape Design and Research (2018)

Lesley-Ann Noel
Advisor(s): Rider, Traci; Liu, Tsailu
Title of Dissertation: Teaching and Learning Design Thinking Through a Critical Lens at a Primary School in Rural Trinidad and Tobago (2018)

Zhenmin Hou
Advisor(s): Khachatoorian, Haig; Joines, Sharon
Title of Dissertation: Development and Design of Exergames for the Aging Population (2017)

Mohsen Ghiasi Ghorveh
Advisor(s): Robin C. Moore
Title of Dissertation: Does Street Quality Affect Transit Users’ Route Choice? (2017)

Fabio Tellez Bohorquez
Advisor(s): Davis, Meredith J.
Title of Dissertation: Empathy Expression and Development in the Context of Industrial Design Education (2017)

Brendan Harmon
Advisor(s): Bressler, Eugene; Meentemeyer, Ross
Title of Dissertation: Tangible Landscape (2017)

Yuan Fang
Advisor(s): Soolyeon Cho
Title of Dissertation: Optimization of Daylighting and Energy Performance Using Parametric Design, Simulation Modeling, and Genetic Algorithms (2017)

Reza Amindarbari
Advisor(s): Baran, Perver; Meentemeyer, Ross
Title of Dissertation: Spatially Disaggregated Simulation of Interconnections Between Land Use Policy, Housing Markets, and the Affordability Crisis (2017)

Sarah Little
Advisor(s): Rice, Art
Title of Dissertation: Wild Boys of the Creek: Autonomous Exploration of a Leftover Space in Raleigh, NC (2016)

Sonika Rawal
Advisor(s): Celen Pasalar
Title of Dissertation: Impact of Urban Park Design on Recovery from Stress: An experimental approach using physiological biomarkers (2016)

Jonghoon Ahn
Advisor(s): Cho, Soolyeon
Title of Dissertation: Development of Energy Performance Metrics for Airport Terminal Buildings using Multivariate Regression Modeling (2016)

Nooshafarin Mohammadzadeh
Advisor(s): Cho, Soolyeon
Title of Dissertation: An Optimization Approach for Integrating Different Roof Functions with Environmental Impacts Constraint: “A Hybrid Framework” (2016)

Sedighehsadat Mirianhosseinabadi
Advisor(s): Cho, Soolyeon
Title of Dissertation: A Framework for Real-Time Performance Measurement and Verification and Commissioning Using Building Automation Systems in Existing Buildings (2016)

Ece Altinbasak
Advisor(s): Celen Pasalar
Title of Dissertation: Designing Schools for Future: Comparison of Teacher Attitudes and Preferences toward Classroom Environment (2016)

Robby Layton Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Eugene Bressler; Arthur Rice
Title of Dissertation: What Really Matters? The Role of Environmental Characteristics of Nearby Greenspace in Opinions of Park System Adequacy and Predicting Visits to Parks (2016)

Ozlem Demir
Advisor(s): Celen Pasalar
Title of Dissertation: Place Identity: Assessing Individual’s Preferences and Perceptions of Residential Characteristics (2016)

Engin Kapkin
Advisor(s): Sharon Melissa Joines
Title of Dissertation: Meaning Attribution Model of Product Forms: A Holistic Approach (2015)

Jong Seon Lee
Advisor(s): Robin Moore
Title of Dissertation: The Association of Urban Form and Design with Children’s Physical Activity and Active Travel (2015)

Muntazar Monsur
Advisor(s): Robin Moore
Title of Dissertation: Does Child Care Architecture Matter? Investigating how Indoor-Outdoor Spatial Relations Influence Child Engagement and Teacher Motivation (2015)

Seyedehmahsan Mohsenin
Advisor(s): Jianxin Hu
Title of Dissertation: Assessing Daylight Performance in Atrium Buildings by Using Climate Based Daylight Modeling (2015)

Ahoo Malekafzali Ardakan
Advisor(s): Jianxin Hu
Title of Dissertation: A Multi-Zone Electrochromic Window System Integrated with Light Shelf (2015)

Wenjiao Wang
Advisor(s): Sharon Melissa Joines
Title of Dissertation: Older Adults & Home Medical Device Interaction: Interface Type Comparison, Display Design, and Touch Gesture Analysis (2014)

Vin Lim
Advisor(s): Haig Khachatoorian
Title of Dissertation: Finding a New Role for Aesthetic Taste in Motivating Sustainable Disposal Behavior. (2014)

Yujia Zhai
Advisor(s): Perver Baran
Title of Dissertation: Urban Park Pathway Design Characteristics and Seniors’ Walking Behavior. (2014)

Di Lu Sr.
Advisor(s): Arthur Rice
Title of Dissertation: Urban Greenway of Raleigh: The Evolution, Trail Use Correlations and Transportation Modes. (2014)

Thomas Crawford
Advisor(s): Arthur Rice
Title of Dissertation: Foundations of American Design Education (2013)

Jae Lee
Advisor(s): Meredith Davis
Title of Dissertation: Rhetoric of Diagrams: A Study of Rhetorical Significance in the Formal Qualities of Diagrammatic Elements and Configurations in the Context of Global Warming. (2013)

Adina Cox
Advisor(s): Robin Moore
Title of Dissertation: Shared-Use Pathways Located in Natural Settings within the Urban Context: A Multiple Case Study Exploring How Design Affects Use by Children. (2013)

Aliaa Elabd
Advisor(s): Robin Abrams
Title of Dissertation: Physical and Social Factors in Neighborhood Place Attachment: Implications for Design. (2013)

Luis Pippi Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Arthur Rice
Title of Dissertation: Social Network Interaction and Behaviors on Recreational Greenways and Their Role in Enhancing Greenway Potential. (2013)

George Hallowell III
Advisor(s): Perver Baran
Title of Dissertation: Understanding Structural Inertia: Examining Suburban Morphology and Patterns of Persistence and Change. (2013)

Constanza Miranda Mendoza
Advisor(s): James Wallace; Haig Khachatoorian
Title of Dissertation: Mapping Visual Negotiations in Innovation Driven Teams: A Peek Into the Design Process Culture of Graduate Engineering Students. (2013)

Ladan Ghobad
Advisor(s): Wayne Place
Title of Dissertation: Analysis of Daylighting Performance and Energy Savings in Roof Daylighting Systems. (2013)

Siwen Liu
Advisor(s): Sharon Melissa Joines
Title of Dissertation: Effects of Early Experiences with Interaction Style on Usability and Acceptance of New Technologies by Older Adults: A Generation-Oriented Approach. (2013)

James Grady AIA
Advisor(s): Wayne Place
Title of Dissertation: A Simulation Tool Utilizing Parametric Primitives For Climate-Based Dynamic Daylighting and Energy Analysis. (2012)

Zeynep Uysal
Advisor(s): Kristen Schaffer
Title of Dissertation: Architectural Type as a Cultural Schema and Its Cognitive Use in Architectural Design: An Analysis of the Aga Khan Award Winning Dwellings in Turkey. (2012)

Nicholas Serrano
Advisor(s):
Title of Dissertation: Gracious Suburban Life: Landscape, Race, and the making of Place through Urban Development in Raleigh, N.C., 1910-1965. (2022)

Tae Koo
Advisor(s): Arthur Rice
Title of Dissertation: Integrating Design Disciplines: Understanding the Potential for and Factors Affecting the Success of Interdisciplinary Design Education for Architecture and Landscape Architecture (2012)

Joo Hee Huh
Advisor(s): Meredith Davis
Title of Dissertation: The Dynamic Interplay between Spatialization of Written Units in Writing Activity and Functions of Tools on the Computer. (2012)

Hyun Jee Kim
Advisor(s): Sharon Melissa Joines
Title of Dissertation: Researching Indoor Public Space Attributes: Enhancing the Interaction between Older Adults and Children. (2012)

Dwane Jones
Advisor(s): Robin Moore
Title of Dissertation: The Behavioral Impacts of Urban Street Modifications: A Case Study of East Blvd. in Charlotte, NC. (2012)

Cecilia Mouat Croxatto
Advisor(s): Haig Khachatoorian
Title of Dissertation: The Discourse of the City in American and British Films between the 1930s and 1960s. (2012)

Fariha Tariq
Advisor(s): Robin Moore
Title of Dissertation: Investigation of Incremental Housing Processes based on Microfinance: Implications for Policies and Practice. (2012)

Matthew Peterson
Advisor(s): Meredith Davis
Title of Dissertation: Comprehension with Instructional Media for Middle School Science: Holistic Performative Design Strategy and Cognitive Load. (2011)

Christopher Isley
Advisor(s): Dana Gulling; Traci Rider
Title of Dissertation: Examining Integrated Design Workflows that Support Building Performance Integration in Small Architectural Firms. (2021)

Amber Howard
Advisor(s): Meredith Davis
Title of Dissertation: Feedforward: A Mobile Design Strategy that Supports Emotive Learning for Preventive Health Practices and Enduring Lifestyle Change. (2011)

Deborah Littlejohn
Advisor(s): Meredith Davis
Title of Dissertation: Anticipation and Action in Graduate-level Design Programs: Building a Theory of Relationships Among Academic Culture, Professional Identity and the Design of the Teaching Environment. (2011)

Thomas Blanchflower
Advisor(s): Meredith Davis
Title of Dissertation: Implications for the Design of Technology in Students’ Use of Tools and Signs in Notetaking from Texts (2011)

Traci Rider
Advisor(s): Wayne Place
Title of Dissertation: Exploring the Integration of Sustainability and Green Building Themes within Formal Architectural Education. (2010)

Michael Layne ASLA
Advisor(s): Henry Sanoff
Title of Dissertation: Supporting Intergenerational Interaction: Affordance of Urban Public Space (2009)

Andrew Payne
Advisor(s): John O. Tector
Title of Dissertation: Understanding Change in Place: Spatial Knowledge Acquired by Visually Impaired Users Through the Change in Footpath Materials. (2009)

Hyejung Chang
Advisor(s): Paul Tesar
Title of Dissertation: Mapping the Web of Landscape Aesthetics: A critical Study of Theoretical Perspectives in Light of Environmental Sustainability (2009)

Kristin Thorleifsdottir
Advisor(s): Wayne Place
Title of Dissertation: Neighborhood design: an investigation of associations between suburban neighborhood morphology and children’s outdoor, out-of-school, physical activities (2008)

Mohammed Islam
Advisor(s): Robin C. Moore
Title of Dissertation: Children and Urban Neighborhoods: Relationships between Outdoor Activities of Children and Neighborhood Physical Characteristics in Dhaka, Bangladesh (2008)

Magdy Ma
Advisor(s): Meredith Davis
Title of Dissertation: A Semiotic Phenomenology of Visual Rhetoric: Communication and Perception of Attributes of Cultural Sustainability in the Visual Environment of Public Housing (2008)

Orcun Kepez Ph.D.
Advisor(s): John O. Tector
Title of Dissertation: Effect of Space on Health and Well-Being: An Environmental Assessment for Home-like Long Term Care Settings (2007)

Yixiang Long
Advisor(s): Robin Moore
Title of Dissertation: The relationships between objective and subjective evaluations of the urban environment: Space Syntax, cognitve maps, and urban legibility (2007)

Ryan Hargrove Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Arthur Rice
Title of Dissertation: Creating creativity in the design studio: Assessing the impact of metacognitive skill development on creative abilities (2007)

Arleen Humphrey Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Robin Moore
Title of Dissertation: Physical Environmental Influences on the Physical Activity Behavior of Independent Older Adults Living in Continuing Care Retirement Communities (2006)

Kenneth Carrington Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Wayne Place
Title of Dissertation: A Photometric Characterization Methodology for Daylighting Fixtures (2006)

Evrim Demir Mishchenko
Advisor(s): Perver Baran; Robin C. Moore
Title of Dissertation: The Influences of Site Design on Physical Activity and Social Interaction in Residential Planned Unit Developments (2006)

Sudeshna Chatterjee Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Robin C. Moore
Title of Dissertation: Children’s Friendship with Place: An Exploration of Environmental Child Friendliness of Children’s Environments in Cities. (2006)

Dennis Puhalla
Advisor(s): Meredith J. Davis
Title of Dissertation: Color as Cognitive Artifact: A Means of Communication — Language and Message (2005)

Aydin Ozdemir
Advisor(s): Fatih Rifki
Title of Dissertation: An Exploratory Study of Interpersonal Distances and Perceived Spaciousness and Crowding in Four Shopping Malls Across Two Cultures (2005)

Marcelo Guimaraes
Advisor(s): Robin C. Moore
Title of Dissertation: An Assessment of Understanding Universal Design Through Online Visual Resources and Role-playing Simulation Exercises (2005)

Claudia Winegarden
Advisor(s): Haig Khachatoorian
Title of Dissertation: Visualizing Communication Structures of Nonverbal Information for Online Learning Environments (2005)

Cynthia Van Der Wiele
Advisor(s): Robin C. Moore
Title of Dissertation: Understanding the Adoption of Sustainable Natural Resource Management Practices and the Role of Ecological Design Within the Milieu of Chronic Conflict and Political Instability: A Case Study of Smallholder Households in Nimba County, Liberia (2004)

Celen Pasalar
Advisor(s): Henry Sanoff
Title of Dissertation: The Effects of Spatial Layouts on Students’ Interactions in Middle Schools: Multiple Case Analysis (2004)

Zeynep Toker
Advisor(s): Henry Sanoff
Title of Dissertation: Women’s Spatial Needs in Housing: Accomodating Gender Ideologies, Use Patterns, and Privacy (2004)

Mine Hashas-Degertekin
Advisor(s): Henry Sanoff
Title of Dissertation: Residents’ Attachment to New Urbanist versus Conventional Suburban Developments (2004)

Eyyad Al-Khalaileh Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Robin C. Moore
Title of Dissertation: Understanding Children’s Environments: The Effect of Outdoor Physical Environments on Children’s Activities and Quality of Life Within Al-Wihdat Palestinian Refugee Camp and Environs in Amman, Jordan (2004)

Umut Toker Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Henry Sanoff
Title of Dissertation: Space for Innovation: Effects of Space on Innovation Processes in Basic Science and Research Settings (2003)

Jianxin Hu Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Wayne Place
Title of Dissertation: The Design and Assessment of Advanced Daylighting Systems Integrated with Typical Interior Layouts in Multi-Story Office Buildings (2003)