Time and Selections (07-09-18)
Gullo and her team found that time of day influences our responses to the options presented to us, which has implications in a variety of contexts, including, for example, design-related choices made.
Gullo and her team found that time of day influences our responses to the options presented to us, which has implications in a variety of contexts, including, for example, design-related choices made.
A research team lead by Meir confirmed that humans have positive responses to windows that they can open and close.
Hyun, Sliwinski, and Smyth have learned that anticipating stressful situations has the same sort of negative effects on our cognitive performance as actually experiencing stress.
Recently completed research confirms that spending time outdoors is good for our health and long-term wellbeing—and how important it is for there to be spaces in workplaces, schools, etc., where people can spend time outside during the course of the day.
Engelen and her colleagues reviewed published research to identify the implications of activity-based working (ABW).
Research conducted by Smith and O’Brien and published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletinindicates that we get a psychological boost from breaking our established patterns of behavior—which has implications for building flexible use into design, for example.
Byrka and Ryczko studied dancing outdoors and inside to better understand the effects of being in natural environment on the experience of exercising.
The organizers of European Healthcare Design 2018 are making available at the website noted below, free of charge, the final program from their recent London conference.
Research completed by Levari and colleagues indicates why some situations seem to persist, even after action, design-based and otherwise, could reasonably be expected to have eliminated them.
Dong and Zhong investigated links between lighting levels and concerns about catching an illness from someone else.