Bio

 

Isa He is a designer, researcher, and architect interested in the psychological and perceptual impact of design on our current and future well-being.

Currently, she is a Research Associate at Harvard Laboratory for Design Technologies (LDT) and Harvard GSD Responsive Environments and Artifacts Lab (REAL), and an Experience Researcher and Designer at INVIVIA. Her research centers around the relationship between technology, human perception, and interactions, with her most recent research developing biometric methods for quanitfying human experiences in built environments.

Isa holds a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a B.A. in Growth and Structure of Cities with a minor in Economics and Environmental Studies from Bryn Mawr College. She has worked at GMP, Payette, Machado Silvetti, and the Shanghai Urban Planning Research and Design Institute. 

 

 

Research & Publication

 

  • He I.*, Song H.*, Seibold Z., Ibrahim I., & Sayegh A. (2022) Mental Breadcrumbs: Using biometric methods to understand how emotions and sensory cues affect wayfinding. SiGraDi 2022 Critical Appropriations.
  • Song H.*, He I.*, Seibold Z., & Sayegh A. (2022) A Biometric Method for Spatial Experience Analysis: A Case Study of Airport Design and Traveler Stress ISSN: 2758-0989 – The European Conference on Arts, Design & Education 2022 Official Conference Proceedings https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2758-0989.2022.44 
  • Air Travel Design Guide
  • Case studies and epilogue in Sayegh, A., Stefano A., & Kalchschmidt M., eds. Responsive Environments: Defining Our Technologically-Mediated Relationship with Space. New York: Actar, 2021.

 

 

Contact

 

Harvard University
48 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
ihe@gsd.harvard.edu