Language Influences Sensory Experience (07-02-09)
Think the language you are speaking doesn’t influence how you perceive space? Think again.
Think the language you are speaking doesn’t influence how you perceive space? Think again.
Fred Dust and Patrice Martin, both of IDEO, have learned a lot about the design of effective workspaces through their observational research at hotels.
When people shift their gaze in a particular direction, their perception of time is altered – a fact that can be usefully applied by designers creating spaces such as retail cash wraps where people will likely need to wait for service.
Music and other sounds present have a significant influence on how humans experience a space.
Yoon and her colleagues conducted online survey research, presenting high-fidelity three dimensional environments to study participants, and found that females seem “more strongly interested in color environments than males.”
Crankshaw discusses the vital role that downtown areas can play in towns and small cities
People like music that is useful to them.
The way in which we are moving influences how our brain is functioning – and applying what is known about the relationship between movement and thought poses interesting challenges for designers
In a ground-breaking study, Corney and his colleagues use information about the brain and the eye to explain the Helmholtz-Kohlrausch (HK) effect.
Rehmeyer discusses the mathematics behind the number of colors required to shade maps and other objects so that colored spaces never abut other spaces of the same color.