Language and Looking (07-15-10)
Not all languages describe or discuss the physical environment in the same way.
Not all languages describe or discuss the physical environment in the same way.
Virtual environments have become extremely realistic, which has its pluses and minuses.
The design of physical environments can reinforce or help change opinions about the organizations that control particular places.
New research indicates that possessing certain branded objects directly influences our perceptions of ourselves.
O’Neill relates employee environmental control to enhanced performance at the individual, group, and organizational levels.
Sharmin and his colleagues investigated how designers use physical and electronic artifacts during the early stages of a design project.
Previous research has shown that when asked to divide horizontal lines in half, people place half-way marks closer to the left hand margin than is appropriate – which has implications, for example, for writing survey questions whose responses are marked on uncallibrated lines and for creating free hand sketches.
At IIT’s Design Research Conference on May 11, Don Norman, the legendary human factors professional and author of The Design of Everyday Things, discussed innovation.
This article by Purciel and her colleagues is noteworthy because the researchers have used geographic information systems (GIS) data to corroborate information collected independently using traditional observation methods.
Full-scale simulations of health care environments being designed are relatively common but simulations are applicable, and useful, for the design of many other spaces – even though they can be costly and time-consuming to produce.