Selecting an Option (05-27-09)
How do we choose among several options?
How do we choose among several options?
A number of new articles provide insight into good park design.
Akalin and his colleagues have added to the body of evidence indicating that moderately complex design is preferred.
Gensler’s 2008 survey of American workers has identified four primary ways in which employees spend their workdays and the amount of time they are engaged in different sorts of tasks.
Milliner reviews the negative response of many parishioners to the Modernist churches that house their congregations and attributes their unhappiness to the failure of these structures to meet worshipers’ psychological needs.
Researchers continue to refine the usefulness of the model of visual preferences put forth by environmental design researchers Kaplan and Kaplan.
Patrons prefer different restaurant seats under different situations.
Nasar and Stamps have investigated the physical features of McMansions (super-sized infill homes) that are most likely to distress neighbors.
How we assess objects depends on which of our hands is dominant.
Tom Fawcett has investigated the relationship between preferred bus seats and response to social situations, temperament, and personal interests.