Noise and Aesthetic Judgments (02-17-10)
There are a variety of noises in natural environments, and an increasing number of them are man made.
There are a variety of noises in natural environments, and an increasing number of them are man made.
Often designers want to develop spaces that will strike an emotional chord with users, and one of the ways to do this is to include literal or figurative representations of valued locations.
When does familiarity trump novelty? Novelty prevail over familiarity?
Researchers from the Netherlands have advanced scent-related research dramatically over the last several years.
Designers and their clients often need to compare different options.
People evaluate retail websites in the same sorts of holistic ways that they assess brick and mortar stores.
We’ve all had the sensation of walking into a space and feeling that we do, or don’t belong there.
Where we sit in a space seems linked to our dominant hand, and since most people are right handed, this complicates the design of public places.
Whether shoppers are experts in a product category or novices influences the best form for a shop.
Graham Brown and Robert Gifford investigated how architects and non-architects rated colored slides of late-twentieth-century office buildings.