Nonverbal Messages in Health Care Settings
What does office personalization imply to a patient? How do different user groups view hospital pediatric settings?
What does office personalization imply to a patient? How do different user groups view hospital pediatric settings?
Noise volume matters in the operating room, multi-tasking fails under neuroimaging, and occupant workspace satisfaction mainly depends on three factors.
Can design change our minds about washing our hands?
Researchers have recently uncovered a relationship between power and control that will interest designers.
Displaying certain types of art reduces medication for agitation.
Hospitals can be seen through different lenses, such as a business case lens, a cultural lens and an ethical lens, and all have implications for design.
Identical (and not mirrored) patient rooms show benefits, and there is an increasing emphasis on patient bathroom design.
As snow covers most of North America, and office workers’ views of nearby nature are shrouded under a thick white blanket, thoughts turn to potted plants in offices.
During a recent study, addition of new plants in indoor common areas at a residential rehabilitation center improved the self-perceived well-being of pulmonary patients.
Over the last few decades much has been written, and discussed, about the role of nature in healthcare environments (including the role of visual art with nature images). In healthcare settings, the primary focus must be that loyalty in healthcare art is not towards the Artist, or the field of the Arts, but towards the patient.