Busyness is Goodness (07-20-10)
People dislike being unoccupied, and clever designers may be able to reduce idleness in spaces they develop.
People dislike being unoccupied, and clever designers may be able to reduce idleness in spaces they develop.
Affinity Health uses new materials to quiet an emergency room.
Recent research to assist in designing camping sites and hiking trails.
A plethera of new research adds to our understanding of employee interactions with their physical workplaces.
Spiritual spaces are particularly challenging to design, but insight from research can be helpful.
Porath and her colleagues have investigated situations in which customers see employees interact who are upset with each other, and the ramifications are dire.
We now have a better idea why people purchase so many jasmine plants each year and wear so many jasmine-based perfumes.
Knight and Haslam corroborated the findings of environmental psychologists, who have established the importance of workers’ control over their physical office environments.
Susan Rodiek and her colleagues have developed an extraordinarily valuable tool for people creating outdoor spaces for the elderly.
Room size influences acoustics, and different sounds produce varying emotional responses in human beings.