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Comfort-Enhancing Technologies

Understanding, evaluating and enhancing comfort to improve human health and performance.

This diverse team of researchers is working collaboratively with industrial partners to enhance human comfort in extreme and high-risk environments. The cluster combines multidisciplinary expertise in textile, biomedical, electrical and materials engineering, as well as big data and machine learning to understand and maximize personal comfort.

The team will define and quantify comfort using thermal, physiological, psychological, fluid-mechanical, and environmental assessment tools and technologies. Applications include developing heat-resistant base layers for female firefighters and next-generation breathable helmets, and evaluating comfort-enhancing technologies for preterm infants.

 

CLUSTER LEAD

Sepideh Pakpour

 

CLUSTER RESEARCH TEAM

Philip Ainslie
Mohamad Arjmand
Susan Holtzman
Pourang Irani
Jennifer Jakobi
Sunny Ri Li
Maya Libben
Abbas Milani
Apurva Narayan
Rudolf Seethaler

 

PAST CLUSTER MEMBERS

Julien Gibon
Patricia Dolez (UoA)
Richard Aleong
Kevin Golovin (UoT)