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Pedestrians using mobile phones are distracted and less aware of information in the environment that surrounds them.
Janneke Joly’s dissertation research details how thinking about other people influences us toward positive behavior.
Senior citizens are being injured on escalators more frequently now than in the past.
People exposed to danger signals in their environments make more extreme judgments of the fairness of situations that are not in any way related to the danger signal than people not exposed to the same signals.
Canada’s National Research Council Institute for Research in Construction (NRC-IRC) has developed a suite of space design software tools that are available free or for a nominal fee at their website (archived: https://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/achievements/highlights/2007/daylight_autonomy_distribution.html).
Night-time exposure to noise increases our blood pressure, even if it does not wake us up.
Social factors influence whether individuals exercise in the areas outside their homes, just as physical features of their neighborhood do.
Indoor waterfalls have been associated with a decrease in the systolic blood pressure of people with dementia by Warmuth and Joseph.
Regular visitors inaccurately estimate urban forest crowding.
Sound can be used to define spaces at a room, building, or city level, with soundscapes affecting patterns of social association, physical movement and interaction.