The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures
Recognizing and respecting culture in a useful new way
Recognizing and respecting culture in a useful new way
Jeanne Tsai conducts culture-based research on emotions and her findings are useful to anyone attempting to develop places or objects that support desired emotional experiences.
Experience may influence how distracting it is to hear background noise.
Who likes what varies, a lot
Gibson and his team studied the how languages communicate color information.
Choices depend on what we think about ourselves
Multiple researchers have probed links between national culture and design-related expectations and experiences. This article synthesizes study findings that have practical applications.
The last place can be a good place
National culture affects room design desires
New research confirms that people from different national cultures vary in how they perceive their physical worlds.