Selecting Wood for Interior Spaces
Aligning activities and materials
Enhance Satisfaction/Quality of Life
Colors and Impressions
Children, adults, and associations
Office Sound Masking: Repercussions
Perceptions and realities
Walkability and Social Mobility
More benefits from designing for walking
Sound/Video Pairings (11-25-19)
Samermit and colleagues have determined that pairing disliked sounds (such as “nails scratching a chalkboard”) with videos presenting a more positive explanation for that sound (such as “someone playing a flute”) reduces the negative implications of hearing those sounds.
Recycled Water: Acceptability (11-22-19)
Research indicates that people have situation-specific reactions to recycled water; reported findings are likely applicable in other contexts with other recycled materials.
Ventilating Rooms (11-18-19)
Wind can effectively support ventilating room and regulating their temperature; gentle movement is an important aspect of biophilic design.
22 Crucial Considerations: Workplace Design
Neuroscientists have extensively studied how workplace design can optimize both user performance and quality-of-life. A careful review of their research shows that there are 22 key issues to keep top-of-mind during the workplace design and management process.
Workplaces for Intense Knowledge Work
Concentrating in ABWs
Activity-Based Workplace Design Guide
Practical tool to resolve important issues
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