Physical Environments to Support Home Caregivers (01-05-10)
Gulwadi has examined residential environments to identify ways they can be designed to help reduce stress among people caring for sick family members and friends in their homes.
Gulwadi has examined residential environments to identify ways they can be designed to help reduce stress among people caring for sick family members and friends in their homes.
Finlay and her colleagues have assessed behavior in casino environments, with a special focus on at-risk gambling intentions.
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology have found the area in the human brain responsible for our sense of personal space (how far we prefer to stand/sit from other people).
Directions Research, Inc., in conjunction with Adobe, collected data from a random sample of 2000 white collar workers living in the United States to learn more about how they work now.
Patrons prefer different restaurant seats under different situations.
Oommen, Knowles, and Zhao have reviewed the research related to open plan offices.
Dormitories where student rooms are grouped into suites have a lower sense of community than dormitories in which student rooms are arranged along long double-loaded corridors.
Welsh and his colleagues have recently completed a study with implications for the design of open workplaces.
The National Summit on School Design, sponsored by the American Architectural Foundation and the KnowledgeWorks Foundation, developed several concrete suggestions for improved school design.
Successful communication among health care practitioners is important, and should be considered in the design of health care spaces.