Hui Cai

Hui Cai

Professor, Architecture
Executive Director

 

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hcai3@gatech.edu
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Hui Cai

Professor, Architecture
Executive Director

 

Biography

Dr. Hui Cai is a Professor of the School of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, she served as the Chair of the Department of Architecture, and the Director of Research at the Institute of Health and Wellness Design at the University of Kansas. She also previously served as the Health + Science research leader and designer at CallisonRTKL Associates in Dallas. Cai received her Ph.D. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology after several years of architectural education and practice in China and Singapore.

Dr. Cai’s research focuses on using a performance-driven and evidence-based design approach to analyze the relationship between culture, human behavior, and the physical environment, especially in healthcare settings and healthy communities. Dr. Cai combines various analytical tools in her research, such as space syntax analysis, discrete event simulations, and behavioral mappings. Cai disseminates her work extensively through numerous publications and presentations. Her work in healthcare research has received several awards, including the International Academy Award for Best Research project, AIA-AAH/AAH Foundation Burgun Fellowship, and the Inaugural Wilbur H (Tib) Tusler, Jr. Health Design Research Prize awarded by the Foundation for Health Environments Research. She is recently named as 2021 HCD 10 Healthcare Design Educator. She also served on the Board of Directors for the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA).

 

Publications

  • Li, L., & Cai, H. (accepted). The Impacts of Expanded Measures of Food Accessibility on Consumers' Food-Related Travel Behaviors in an Affluent Area, Journal of Architectural and Planning Research (JAPR), Locke Science Publisher.

  • Cai, H., Daneshvar, Z., Miller, K., Dash, M., & Jiang, S. (2024). Exploring Campus Configuration and Patient Arrival Behaviors at Large Hospitals: An Integrated Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) Protocol. HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 17(4):45-64. https://doi.org/10.1177/19375867241271432

  • Davis, R., Calkins, M, & Cai, H. (2023). The Assessment of Long-Term Care Environments for Wayfinding Design, HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 16(4), 15-31, https://doi.org/10.1177/19375867231180905. 

  • Cai H, Garcia A, Polivka B, Spreckelmeyer K, Yang FM. (2023). Visibility and Accessibility of Hand Hygiene Stations and Fatigue Among Nurses Working in Long-Term Care (LTC) During the COVID-19 Pandemic. HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal,16(2):24-37. https://doi.org/10.1177/19375867221149126

  • Sanner-Stiehr, E., Yang, F., Garcia, A., Polivka, B., Dunton N., Williams, J., Waipitage, D., Cai, H., Spreckelmeyer, K. (2022). Support from Work and Intent to Stay Among Nurses During COVID-19: An Academic-Practice Collaboration, Nurse Leader, 20(6): 594-600, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mnl.2022.04.007. Elsevier.

  • Cai, ZC., Cai, H. & YF Xu (2022), Comparative study on the Spatial Design of Senior Dementia Care Units in the United States and China (中国失智老人照料单元设计对比研究), Journal of Southern Architecture (南方建筑).

  • Cai, ZC., Cai, H. & Wang, HX. (2022). Quantitative Comparative Analysis of Nursing Units Design in the United States and China (中外综合医院住院部护理单元空间布局量化比较研究) Journal of Central China Architecture Design (Huazhong Architecture 华中建筑).7, 54-59.

  • Cai, H., Fullam, F., MacAllister, L., Fogg, L. F., Canar, J., Press, I., ... & Velasquez, O. (2021). Impact of Inpatient Unit Design Features on Overall Patient Experience and Perceived Room Level Call Button Response. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(18), 9747. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18189747. 

  • Cai, H., & Spreckelmeyer, K. (2021). The Continuous Learning Cycle: A Multi-phase Post occupancy Evaluation (POE) of Decentralized Nursing Unit Design. HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal. doi:10.1177/1937586721105.

  • Cai, H., Tyne, I., Spreckelmeyer, K., & Williams, J. (2021). Impact of Visibility and Accessibility on Healthcare Workers’ Hand-Hygiene Behavior: A Comparative Case Study of Two Nursing Units in an Academic Medical Center. HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal. doi:10.1177/1937586720962506.

  • Peavey, E., & Cai, H. (2020). An Ecological Framework for Understanding the Environment’s Impact on Clinical Teamwork: A Systematic Literature Review of Empirical Studies. Environment and Behavior, 52(7), 726-760. doi:10.1177/0013916518815535.

  • Cai, H., Zilm, F., Sheward, H., & Graham, K. (2020). Responding to COVID-19 – Healthcare Surge Capacity Design for High-Consequence Infectious Disease. Technology| Architecture and Design (TAD)., 4(2), 135-139. doiI:10.1080/24751448.2020.1804752.

  • Cai, H. Lu, Y., & Sheward, H. (2019). A Historical Study of Chinese Nursing Unit Design since 1989. Health Environments Research & Design Journal. 12(4), 53-66. https://doi.org/10.1177/1937586718820682. 

  • Cai, H., Spreckelmeyer, K., Mendenhall, A., Li, D., Holmes, C., & Levy, M. (2019). A Regional Survey on Residents’ Preferences on Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Design in Rural Areas. Health Environments Research & Design Journal. 12(3), 187-205. https://doi.org/10.1177/1937586718806866. 

  • Fay, L., Cai, H., & Real, K. (2019). A Systematic Literature Review of Empirical Studies on Decentralized Nursing Stations. Health Environments Research & Design Journal. 12(1):44-68. https://doi.org/10.1177/1937586718805222. 

  • Cai, H., & Jia, J. (2019). Using Discrete Event Simulation (DES) to support Performance-driven healthcare design. Health Environments Research & Design Journal. 12(3), 89-106. DOI: 10.1177/1937586718801910. 

  • Cai, H., & Zimring, C. (2019). Cultural impacts on nursing unit design: A comparative study on Chinese nursing unit typologies and their U.S. counterparts using space syntax. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. 46(3), 573-594. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808317715639.

Conference Presentations 

  • Platt, L., Cai, H., Mcintosh, T., Harvey, J., & Green K. (2022), Improving Hand Hygiene Compliance Through Collaborative Computational Environment of Care Design, in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care (HFES 22), 11 (1), 98-103, https://doi.org/10.1177/2327857922111020.

  • Spreckelmeyer, K., Cai, H. & Silva, K. (2019), The Seventy-Year Legacy of Environment Behavior Studies at the University of Kansas, Proceedings of EDRA50 (the 49th annual conference of the Environmental Design and Research Association): Sustainable Urban Environments, Brooklyn, May 22-26. Online Publication.

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