Affinity Health Gets the Noise Out
Affinity Health uses new materials to quiet an emergency room.
Affinity Health uses new materials to quiet an emergency room.
Multi-tasking, noise, nature and stair use: factors to consider in workplace design.
Room size influences acoustics, and different sounds produce varying emotional responses in human beings.
Bluyssen reviews the literature on human experience of indoor environments.
Spoken language is inherently distracting.
A team of Finnish researchers has investigated the influence of intelligible speech on cognitive performance.
There are a variety of noises in natural environments, and an increasing number of them are man made.
Research by Sackett and his colleagues indicates that when people believe that time has passed more quickly than they perceived, judgments of noises heard change – “hedonic experience is partially grounded in subjective time perception.”
The ways in which music and nature impact patients can be caught in the conflict between technological and natural therapeutic interventions. This article was originally published in 2009.
Gary Siebein and Martin Gould, both from The University of Florida at Gainesville, and Glenn Siebein and Michael Ermann (Siebein Associates) investigated typical classrooms to determine how architectural changes can improve a student’s acoustical situation.