Light Modification Benefits Alzheimer’s Patients
Alzheimer’s patients seem sensitive to the sun’s waning, as the sun’s setting can trigger or increase disruptive behaviors.
Alzheimer’s patients seem sensitive to the sun’s waning, as the sun’s setting can trigger or increase disruptive behaviors.
The physical environment can be a source of engagement and learning for young children or it can inhibit learning opportunities. In out of home child care, both center and family-based, the physical environment should support learning as much as possible. How does learning and the physical environment intersect?
After statistically analyzing the colors used in homes, offices, and commercial settings, researchers determined that the color palette for residential spaces tends to use distinctively warm colors. Offices and commercial spaces tend to use warm and cool colors in roughly equal proportions.
For most children, directed learning occurs in a specific place they inhabit every school day—their school building. Two research studies add to our understanding of how these physical places can affect children’s learning-related behaviors and performance
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Preiser and Vischer have compiled an extremely useful tool for people determining the influence of a built structure on human experience.
Although BRAND sense focuses on the influence of products on human experience, the lessons it can teach people who design and manage places are also important.
Researchers asked people to identify what settings they favored for restoration, the preferred social context, and how a limited time budget affected restoration experiences. Another study investigated how being with others affected restorative experiences.