Scents, Stores and Sales
Scenting the air is common in stores, but under what conditions is it most likely to lead to increases in sales?
Walking on the Right—or Not
Efficient paths may win over cultural walking patterns.
Servicescape Design and Consumer Perceptions (12-06-12)
Consumers are motivated to shop at particular stores or use certain services at least in part because of the apparent personality indicated by retail/service environments. Orth, Heinrich, and Maikewitz have investigated the influence of interior design on perceptions of personality and learned that “Store personality relates systematically to five holistic types of interiors.
More to Retail Experience Than Store Design (11-07-12)
Environmental psychologists are not place-deterministic, they understand that many factors influence experience in a space. This holistic approach is often overshadowed in discussions of design decisions, however. Van Marrewijk and Broos corroborated the importance of considering the full range of factors encountered in a store on the financial performance of that retail outlet: “Retail space and the aesthetic structuring of a range of expressive artefacts have become the stage on which shop attendants perform . . . .
Designing for Better Nutrition (09-14-12)
Trying to design to make healthy eating more likely?
- Blogs 2012
- Blog Article
- Any Designed Environment
- College/University
- Healthcare
- Hotel
- Long Term Living Facility
- Residential Dwelling
- Restaurant/Dining Room
- Retail Store
- Workplace
- School
- Enhance Satisfaction/Quality of Life
- Promote Physical Health/Improve Health Outcomes
- Acoustics/Sound
- Light
- architecture psychology
- design psychology
- design research
- design science
- environment behavior
- environmental psychology
- interior design psychology
- place advantage
- place science
- sensory science
Designing for Safety
How can store layout and features decrease shoplifting? How can neighbors make their neighborhoods safer?
Noise Levels and Consumer Behavior (05-22-12)
Ravi Mehta, Rui Zhu, and Amar Cheema investigated noise levels in retail environments and their repercussions for shopper behavior.
- Blogs 2012
- Blog Article
- Restaurant/Dining Room
- Retail Store
- Encourage Sales
- Foster Creativity
- Acoustics/Sound
- architecture psychology
- design psychology
- design research
- design science
- environment behavior
- environmental psychology
- interior design psychology
- place advantage
- place science
- sensory science
Temperature Matters (05-17-12)
Kolb, Gockel, and Werth confirmed that temperature does indeed affect behavior.
- Blogs 2012
- Blog Article
- Healthcare
- Hotel
- Library
- Mass Transit
- Restaurant/Dining Room
- Retail Store
- Workplace
- Encourage Sales
- Enhance Satisfaction/Quality of Life
- Improve Mood/Increase Feelings of Wellbeing
- Increase Productivity/Performance
- Support Customer Satisfaction
- Temperature
- architecture psychology
- design psychology
- design research
- design science
- environment behavior
- environmental psychology
- interior design psychology
- place advantage
- place science
- sensory science
Territories at the Coffee Shop (04-19-12)
Griffiths and Gilly have investigated territorial behavior at third places and more specifically how they might arise.
Mood and Choices (03-12-12)
Di Muro and Murray studied links between consumer moods and product choices.
- Blogs 2012
- Blog Article
- Retail Store
- Encourage Sales
- Enhance Satisfaction/Quality of Life
- Scents
- Music
- Framework for Reaction to Place
- architecture psychology
- design psychology
- design research
- design science
- environment behavior
- environmental psychology
- interior design psychology
- place advantage
- place science
- sensory science