Smart Office Design
Elevating wellbeing and performance
Increase Productivity/Performance
Temperature and Mental Performance
Warmer is not better
Dynamic Office Lighting
Effects on cognitive performance
Working with an Audience
Implications for complex tasks
Benefits of Nature-Based Experiences (03-27-20)
Weir reports on the findings of numerous studies that have established the psychological value of nature-based experiences. The material related to experiencing nature while indoors have the widest applicability. Weir states, for example, that “Berman and colleagues found that study participants who listened to nature sounds like crickets chirping and waves crashing performed better on demanding cognitive tests than those who listed to other sounds like traffic and the clatter of a busy café. . . . .
Office Lighting Distribution
Experience, alertness effects
Indoor Plants and Lived Experiences
Plants promote wellbeing and ...
Smelling and Learning (02-05-20)
New research confirms that scents we smell as we learn and sleep influence our cognitive performance. Neumann, Oberhauser, and Kornmeier conducted a field study with sixth graders anddetermined that when people smelled the same scent when learning material and later while sleeping (scent was present all night) that they remembered the learned material better after waking up. The scent used by researchers was of roses.
Corporate Cultures Worldwide
Insights for aligning culture and workplace design
Office Lighting, Alertness, and Sleep (12-13-19)
Researchers at the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer and the US General Services Administration (GSA) conducted important research related to at-work alertness and nighttime sleep. During their study “luminaires, mounted near the participants’ computer monitors provided: (1) morning saturated blue light delivering a circadian stimulus (CS) of 0.4, (2) midday polychromatic white light delivering a CS of 0.3, and (3) afternoon saturated red light delivering a CS close to zero. . . .
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