Kelsey received an Honours Bachelor of Science in physics from Queen’s. Her research focuses on characterizing the indoor environmental quality and occupant wellbeing in Canadian homes to examine the relationship between the features of the built environment, measured IEQ parameters, occupant comfort/perception and the health and wellbeing of occupants.
Projects
Improving Residential Indoor Environmental Quality to Promote Aging in Place
This project uses surveys, interviews, and field measurements to characterize the indoor environmental conditions (including light, thermal, acoustic and air-quality) in seniors’ homes, to provide targets for improvement.
This project uses weather and building utility data to determine the actual (rather than theoretical) performance of building retrofits.
Publications
Conference Publications
Veitch, J.A., Nixon, A., Cunha, I.B., Eakin, K, Villeneuve, H, O’Brien, W., Touchie, M. (2025). “Lighting conditions in the homes of older adults: Are they suitable for healthy aging in place?” in the Proceedings of the CIE 2025 Midterm Meeting (pp. 1166-1173). Vienna, Austria, July 4-11, 2025, doi: 10.25039/x051.2025/v6umqq
Cunha, I.B., Skoda, S., Veitch, J.A., Nixon, A., Mahn, J., Villeneuve, H., O’Brien, W., Eakin, K., Touchie, M. F. “Outdoor-to-indoor noise perception survey of Canadians aging in place — Preliminary results” in the Proceedings of the 54th International Congress & Exposition on Noise Control Engineering (pp. 1356-1364). Sao Paolo, Brazil, August 24-27, 2025, doi: 10.29327/9786527215738
Eakin, K., Ropp, G., Day, K., Touchie, M.F. “A utility-driven approach to investigating the energy performance impact of post-war multi-unit residential building retrofits” in the 2022 Canadian Conference on Building Science and Technology, Toronto, ON, October 27-28, 2022