Children Use One Sense at a Time (5-01-08)
Until approximately the age of 8, children do not integrate the information that they receive through their eyes and their sense of touch.
Until approximately the age of 8, children do not integrate the information that they receive through their eyes and their sense of touch.
More often than not, the outdoor environment of a senior ‘retirement’ community is ignored and people focus on the attributes of a building's interior. However, the activities that can be offered on the outside of a building are almost limitless, constrained only by the imagination, and not by a person's age.
When humans need to concentrate on information that they are receiving through one sense, they filter or ignore information that is being received through other senses.
Evaluations of both tactile and visual information influence overall aesthetic assessments of attractiveness.
Three articles highlight practical workplace design guidelines as they relate to communication between co-workers, organizational knowledge, and office functionality.
Recreational shoppers are interested in experiencing a different sort of environment than task-oriented shoppers.
Several recently published reviews that examine the research literature provide information about the appropriate design of health care environments. Taken together, they are a useful and up-to-date starting point on approaching this research.
Why go to the mall? Two articles examine shopper motivation and how shoppers' mall memories and preferences affect shopping behavior.
Research is still critical to understanding how the environment can help support those with dementia and their families. Recent studies look at several sucessful indoor design interventions and provide outdoor design guidelines.
The National Academy of Sciences, the American Institute of Architects, and the Vinyl Institute coordinated the first Neuroscience and Health Facilities Workshop in Woods Hole, MA, August 13–15, 2002