Renuka Singh

Renuka Singh is an architect and urban designer interested in how physical environment affects healthcare experiences of children and families in Pediatric Healthcare Environments. She has completed her B.Arch. from School of Planning and Architecture (S.P.A.), New Delhi, India with the Gold Medal and M.Arch. in Urban Design (major) and Conservation (minor) from Centre of Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT University), Ahmedabad, India. After her master's, she worked for a year as an architect, and next three-and-half years as an Assistant Professor of Architecture at IIT(BHU) Varanasi, India. Throughout her academic journey, she has developed a strong interest in the field of Healthcare Architecture, and as a female researcher she intends to mainstream gender-responsiveness in environmental design. Her specific areas of expertise include children's environments (healthcare, playscapes), environment-behaviour research, evidence-based design, design for health-and-wellbeing, universal/inclusive design.

Areas of Interest

Publications

• Gamifying Mental Well-Being Assessment: A New Approach for College-Going Students Using the 'Oxford Happiness Questionnaire'

  15th International Conference of Human-Computer Interaction

  2024

  10.1007/978-3-031-80832-6_8

• How Does the Physical Environment Influence Behaviors of Parents/Caregivers in a Pediatric Waiting Space? Findings From an Environment-Behavior Study in a Pediatric Hospital in New Delhi, India

  Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting

  2026

  10.1177/10711813261485204

• Impact of Physical Environment of Pediatric Inpatient Wards on Children: A Systematic Literature Review

  HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal

  2026

  10.1177/19375867261451751