Tiiu Poldma, Ph.D.

Education

• B.A., Interior Design, Ryerson University, Toronto ON, 1982
• M.A. (Honours), Culture and Values in Education, McGill University, 1999
• Ph.D., Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University, 2003

Research interest

Impact of design on health and well-being

Research laboratory

Form-Color-Light (FoCoLUM) Lab and Research Group in Illumination and Design (GRID)

Recent publications

Labbé, D., Poldma, T., Fichten, C.S., Havel, A., Kehayia, E., Mazer, B., . . . Swaine, B.R. (2018). Rehabilitation in the real-life environment of a shopping mall. Disability and Rehabilitation, 40(7), 848-855.

Poldma, T., Labbé, D., Kehayia, E., Swaine, B.R. & Herbane, H. (2018). La participation sociale des aînés en centre commercial : un laboratoire vivant. In S. Lord & D. Piché (Eds.), Vieillissement et aménagement : perspectives plurielles (pp. 227-242). Montréal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal.

Ahmed, S., Swaine, B.R., Milot, M., Gaudet, C., Poldma, T., Bartlett, G., . . . Kehayia, E. (2017). Creating an inclusive mall environment with the PRECEDE-PROCEED model: A living lab case study. Disability and Rehabilitation, 39(21), 2198-2206.

Kehayia, E., Ahmed, S., Archambault, P.S., Fung, J., Lamontagne, A., Swaine, B.R., . . . Labbé, D. (incl. Poldma, T.) (2017). La santé, élément commun des politiques publiques? L’expérience canadienne. Annales des Mines – Réalités industrielles, 2(Mai 2017), 82-85.

King, L., Fichten, C.S., Jorgensen, M., Budd, J., Havel, A., Nguyen, M.N., . . . Poldma, T. (2017). Comment bien utiliser les TIC au collégial : Le point de vue des étudiants. Pédagogie collégiale, 31(1), 27-33.

Poldma, T. (2017). Chapter 9. Communication and stakeholders. In A. Petermans & A. Kent (Eds.), Retail Design. Theoretical Perspectives. London UK and New York NY USA: Routledge.

Poldma, T., Carbonneau, H., Miaux, S., Mazer, B., Le Dorze, G., Gilbert, A., . . . El-Khatid, A. (2017). Lived experiences and technology in the design of urban nature parks for accessibility. In A. Margherita & S. Constantine (Eds.), Universal Access in Human–Computer Interaction. Human and Technological Environments (Vol. 10279, pp. 308-319). Vancouver BC: Springer International Publishing.

Poldma, T. (2016). Linking education to community in the context of learning by designing solutions for an ever-growing humanitarian crisis. LEARNing Landscapes, 10(1), 235-256.

Fichten, C.S., King, L., Jorgensen, M., Nguyen, M.N., Budd, J., Havel, A., . . . Poldma, T. (2015). What do college students really want when it comes to their instructors’ use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in their teaching? International Journal of Learning Teaching and Educational Research, 14(2), 173-191.

Poldma, T. (2015). The dynamics of theory and practice in design learning : Contexts, service and a discipline in evolution. In T.K. Vaikla (Ed.), Sisu-Line #1 The Journal of Interior Architectureline. Dynamics of Theory and Practice (pp. 92-109). Tallinn, Estonia: Estonian Association of Interior Architects.

Poldma, T. (2015). Chapter 6. Why study interior design? In K. Vaidya (Ed.), Interior Design for the Curious: Why Study Interior Design? Canberra, Australia: The Curious Academic Publishing.

Poldma, T. (2015). Chapter 27. Engaging voices within a dynamic problem-based learning context. In J.A. Asher Thompson & N. Blossom (Eds.), The Handbook of Interior Design (pp. 465-477). Malden MA, USA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Poldma, T. & Labbé, D. (2015). Bien vieillier en ville : améliorer l’accessibilité au centre commercial pour une meilleure participation sociale. Revue Vie et vieillissement, 12(2), 43-50.

Yip, J., Herbane, H., Poldma, T. & Rousseau, J. (2015). Exploration des cadres de construction des rampes d’accessibilité. Canadian Journal on Aging, 34(4), 457-470.

Kehayia, E., Swaine, B. R., Longo, C., Ahmed, S., Archambault, P. S., Fung, J., . . . Poldma, T. (2014). Creating a rehabilitation living lab to optimize participation and inclusion for persons with physical disabilities/Création d’un laboratoire vivant en réadaptation pour optimiser la participation et l’inclusion des personnes avec déficiences physiques. ALTER – European Journal of Disability Research / Revue européenne de recherche sur le handicap, 8(3), 151-157.

Mazurik, K., Desjardins, M., de Grosbois, E., Poldma, T. & Gelech, J. (2014). Individual stakes and collective ideology in tension: Looking at physical and spatial obstacles from an experiential perspective/Entre enjeux individuels et idéologie : analyser les obstacles physiques et spatiaux selon une perspective expérientielle. ALTER – European Journal of Disability Research / Revue européenne de recherche sur le handicap, 8(3), 194-205.

Poldma, T., Labbé, D., Bertin, S., De Grosbois, E., Barile, M., Mazurik, K., . . . Artis, G. (2014). Understanding people’s needs in a commercial public space: About accessibility and lived experience in social settings/Mieux comprendre les besoins des usagers dans un espace public commercial : de l’accessibilité et de l’expérience vécue dans les milieux sociaux. ALTER – European Journal of Disability Research / Revue européenne de recherche sur le handicap, 8(3), 206-216.

Swaine, B.R., Labbé, D., Poldma, T., Barile, M., Fichten, C.S., Havel, A., . . . Rochette, A. (2014). Exploring the facilitators and barriers to shopping mall use by persons with disabilities and strategies for improvements: Perspectives from persons with disabilities, rehabilitation professionals and shopkeepers/Explorer les facilitateurs, les barrières et améliorations possibles pour la fréquentation des centres commerciaux par les personnes handicapées : le point de vue des personnes handicapées, des professionnels de la réadaptation et des commerçants. ALTER – European Journal of Disability Research / Revue européenne de recherche sur le handicap, 8(3), 217-229.

Kronish, N. & Poldma, T. (2013). Exploring peoples’ needs in a psychiatric ward: Social community, design and the interior environment in a healthcare setting. Journal of Design Research, 11(4), 336-350.

Research orientation

Axis 2

Research topic

Thème 1 - The person, their entourage and the community

Research Site

CRIR - Institut universitaire sur la réadaptation en déficience physique de Montréal (IURDPM) of the CIUSSS CSMTL

University Affiliation