Perceived Safety (12-30-13)
Neighborhoods that are perceived as safe are less stressful places to be than those that seem dangerous.
Neighborhoods that are perceived as safe are less stressful places to be than those that seem dangerous.
Designers creating post-emergency homes, whether they’re developing shelters for individuals following floods or civil wars or something else, often have limited resources and must prioritize their activities.
Reminders of the passage of time cause us to think differently.
Don Norman, the design thinker responsible for such important texts as The Design of Everyday Things and Emotional Design has recently outlined his current take on important design issues.
Garfield carefully reviews the history of cartography and why maps have been important to humans throughout their history.
The designed and social environments (and the relationships between them) that effect mental and physical wellbeing in neighborhoods and among neighbors are carefully explored by Brower.
Being attentive while traveling, through familiar and exotic locales, can help urban planners and others develop a better understanding of how users experience current spaces.
Research by Matsunami, Mainland, Trimmer, Snyder, Moberly, and Keller indicates why people can have such significantly different responses to the same scent.
Previous research has shown that rewards given to us influence what sorts of things in our visual field we pay attention to.
Fleming has assessed the psychological implications of flexible workplaces and related management practices.