Space User Profiles
Fostering excellent outcomes
Fostering excellent outcomes
Determining daylighting across the street
Trost and colleagues investigated human responses to live and recorded music. They report that “Unlike recorded music, intense musical emotions are most often expressed in live musical performances and are experienced when listening to live music in concerts, given the dynamic relationship between performing artists and the audience. Here, we show that live music can stimulate the affective brain of listeners more strongly and consistently than recorded music.”
Theology, design connections
Too many people or too little space?
Stereotypes' powerful effects
When, what, how
Mygind and colleagues found that neighborhood form and some parenting practices are related. They state that “There were no observable associations between residential greenness [i.e., Normalized Difference in Vegetation Index] within a 1,600 m network radius and parenting practices, mother-infant bonding, or infant socioemotional function. The findings were largely corroborated by sensitivity analyses (i.e., NDVI within 100, 250, 500, and 1,000 m and distance to park). Shorter distances to a park were associated with less hostile parenting.
Recently completed research indicates consistent responses to music in multiple cultures. Putkinen, Zhou, Gan, Yang, Becker, Sams, and Nummenmas found that “emotional music evokes similar bodily sensations across cultures. . . . The emotions and bodily sensations evoked by music were similar across Western and Asian listeners. . . . The study was conducted in collaboration with Aalto University from Finland and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) as an online questionnaire survey.
Bhandari and teammates link ventilation and noise and the cognitive performance of university students. They report that “focusing on ceiling fan noise in classrooms, this study investigates the effect of acoustic environment . . . on acoustic comfort, productivity, and engagement. A four-month-long field study was conducted in 11 naturally ventilated classrooms, obtaining 828 responses. . . . BGN [background noise] levels and RT [reverberation time] ranged from 58.2 to 65.3 dBA and 0.7–2.1 s, respectively.