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Research Using HeatSuite

Here is a list of publications using using HeatSuite.

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

Ravanelli N, Lefebre K, Mornas A, Gagnon D. Evaluating compliance with HeatSuite for monitoring in situ physiological and perceptual responses and personal environmental exposure. npj-Digital Medicine, 2025. doi: 10.1038/s41746-025-01608-z

Ravanelli N, Lefebvre K, Brough A, Paquette S, Lin W. Validation of an Open-Source Smartwatch for Continuous Monitoring of Physical Activity and Heart Rate in Adults. Sensors. 2025; 25(9):2926. doi: 10.3390/s25092926

Conference Presentations:

Guzmán-Echavarría, G., Ravanelli, N., Middel, A., Rosales Chavez, J.B., Meltzer, C., Rentz, K., Munoz, M., Guardaro, M., Pinilla-Roncancio, M., Guzmán-Echavarría, E., Vanos, J., Decoding The Individual Heat Experience: Assessing Personal Heat Exposure, Adaptive Responses, and Non-Life Threatening Health Outcomes, NSF NCAR Research Symposium: Human and Geographic Dimensions of Extreme Heat and Heat Risk, Boulder, US, Jun 2025. Poster Presentation.

Guzmán-Echavarría, G., Ravanelli, N., Middel, A., Rentz, K., Meltzer, C., Munoz, M., Guardaro, M., Rosales Chavez, J. B., Vanos, J., Unfolding the Individual Adaptive Response: Insights from Summertime Personal Heat Exposure and Thermal Preferences in Older Adults in Phoenix, Arizona. CAPLTER All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, Tempe, US, Jan 2025. Poster Presentation.

Guzmán-Echavarría, G., Ravanelli, N., Middel, A., Rentz, K., Meltzer, C., Munoz, M., Guardaro, M., Rosales Chavez, J. B., Vanos, J., HeatSuite Phoenix Pilot: Assessing Non-life-Threatening Health Outcomes to Extreme Heat in Older Adults Living in Phoenix, Arizona. AMS Annual meeting 2025, New Orleans, US, Jan 2025. Oral Presentation.

Ravanelli, N. Observing the in-situ physiological and behavioral responses heat-vulnerable individuals during extreme heat events to inform heat-illness detection models, International Conference on Environmental Ergonomics, Jeju, Korea 2024, Symposium.

Ravanelli, N, Lefebvre K, Mornas A, Gagnon D. In situ physiological and behavioural responses of vulnerable populations during an extreme heat event in Montreal, Quebec 2023: a pilot study. American Physiological Society Summit, Long Beach, California, Poster Presentation 2024.