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General Information

• Project title: Perception, Behaviors and Emotional States of Compact Home Dwellers Towards Indoorscape Enhancement in Compact Dwellings via Virtual Reality (VR)
• Type: Project looking for partner
• Organisation: University of Hull
• Country: United Kingdom (UK)

Research area

• Call theme: Enhancing well-being for the future
• Keywords:

  Compact housing; social wellbeing; virtual reality; indoor spatial design

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  1) Expert on social psychology tackling the mental health and social wellbeing 2) Expert in immersive virtual environment i.e., gaming, Artificial Intelligent (AI), Virtual Reality (VR)

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  This project will tackle the issue of social wellbeing living in compact homes such as flats/apartment and how socio-economic attributes (i.e., financial, affordability, social status, career, personal preference, psychological factor, personalities, disability, family institution, lifestyle, etc.,) influence their choice/preference to live in flat/apartment units. The main aim is on the importance of the wellbeing of flat dwellers (long-term physiological and psychological effects (negative) due to factors such as less natural lighting penetrating the indoor spaces, bad outdoor views, small windows, less fresh air, distance from green/natural elements, etc. "Compact dwellers" term in this project will be the renters and/or homebuyers/owners who live in a house that may have limited number of rooms, limited land and space area, limited access to green spaces, may come and may not come with balcony, and may share communal spaces (dining, kitchen and living) in one space. In this project, creative design intervention and innovation will take place combining with modern building materials and spatial setup, as well as integrating "sustainability" in the design aspects i.e., low-energy and low-carbon materials, recycle-reuse-reduce-recover concept, cost-effective, etc. Definitely the modern issues dealing with rise in the energy cost, pollution, global warming and other issues related to social, economy and environment will need to be blended part of the innovation.

Dr Diana Mohd Nasir

• Organisation: University of Hull
• Position: Lecturer in Engineering Design
• E-mail: D.Mohd-Nasir@hull.ac.uk
• Phone: 447383149637