Keeping Older People Moving (12-11-12)
Nathan, Wood, and Giles-Corti move knowledge on designing for exercise forward.
Nathan, Wood, and Giles-Corti move knowledge on designing for exercise forward.
Dischinger and Filho make the discussion of designing for different sensory capabilities concrete.
Although social media are becoming ubiquitous, researchers at Renssalaer have found that “The closer you live to another person, the more likely you are to be friends with them despite the growing use and impact of social media.”
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.
The Center for Health Design has related a new report on factors that contribute to patient falls in hospitals (“Contribution of the Designed Environment to Fall Risk in Hospitals”).
Rosenblum and Gordon review exotic perceptual skills such as “our ability to echolocate like bats; to scent-track like dogs; and to improve our brain’s touch skills to compensate for temporary visual deprivation.”
Feeling nostalgic can influence how warm a person thinks a room is and people in cooler places can be more nostalgic.
Researchers at Durham University explored the learning repercussions of multi—touch, multi-user desks.
The industry partners of the Center for the Built Environment (CBE) at the University of California, Berkeley, have selected the Clif Bar and Company headquarters as the winner of the 2012 Livable Buildings Award.
Eric Spangenberg, who has done a great deal of important research on the appropriate use of scents in retail environments, recently completed some holiday appropriate work that will have repercussions long after the end-of-year celebrations are over.