Creating Productive Workplaces
Recent research highlights attributes of workplaces that enhance worker performance.
Recent research highlights attributes of workplaces that enhance worker performance.
Arousal caused by music and scent can affect buying behavior.
Even knowledge about daydreaming can inform place design.
People dislike being unoccupied, and clever designers may be able to reduce idleness in spaces they design.
The smell of jasmine can reduce anxiety.
The Pennsylvania State Hershey Cancer Institute, designed by Payette, has won the Generative Space Health Improvement Award, presented by the CARITAS Project.
While participating in a panel discussion (titled: Psychiatric Facility Design: An International Tour) at the Healthcare Facilities Symposium and Expo on September 15, Fiona de Vos, PhD, discussed the findings of a post-occupancy evaluation she conducted of an inpatient psychiatric hospital in the Netherlands.
Schielke investigated whether it was possible to communicate brand messages through the lighting in retail outlets.
Americans feel more relaxed and safer on rural highways according to a study recently conducted at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Excellence in Rural Safety.
Cesario and his colleagues have investigated how place design influences responses to threatening stimuli.