Evolutionary Bedroom Design
Perceived safety is a factor when people lay out their bedrooms.
Perceived safety is a factor when people lay out their bedrooms.
Solet and her team have investigated the noise levels that can be experienced by hospital patients during the night.
Affinity Health uses new materials to quiet an emergency room.
What design elements affect playground use? What defines a well-designed primary school? What features do children want in common hospital spaces? Recent studies answer these questions.
In this article, we will look at the impact of the “characterless walls,” as they define the patient space and how nature elements mitigate some of the generic, impersonal features common to institutional care. This article was published in 2010.
Patients of any age can be stressed, but children may be particularly upset by hospital visits - no matter what your age, stress compromises the functioning of your immune system.
The ways in which music and nature impact patients can be caught in the conflict between technological and natural therapeutic interventions. This article was originally published in 2009.
Core concepts and extensive user observations and questions leads to good healthcare design.
As Richardson and her colleagues describe, “Sleep is essential for human survival and sleep deprivation is detrimental to health and well being.”
Recent research at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center investigated what a children’s hospital means emotionally to patients, families, staff members and administrators.