What makes a home office a good working space?
What makes a home office “work”? A recent review provides a concise checklist for people creating offices, wherever they are.
What makes a home office “work”? A recent review provides a concise checklist for people creating offices, wherever they are.
When people think about walking, they usually just think about how it can improve physical health—but research shows that taking a stroll also enhances our mental performance, and has other surprising benefits.
We have new findings tying cues in the physical environment to particular ways of thinking
People designing places and objects won’t be surprised to learn that the placebo effect is found outside the context of medicine/healthcare.
The industry partners of the Center for the Built Environment (CBE) at the University of California, Berkeley, have selected the Clif Bar and Company headquarters as the winner of the 2012 Livable Buildings Award.
Eric Spangenberg, who has done a great deal of important research on the appropriate use of scents in retail environments, recently completed some holiday appropriate work that will have repercussions long after the end-of-year celebrations are over.
Researchers have linked environmental conditions inside American offices with the prevalence of headaches.
Researchers from the University of Utrecht (Semin, de Groot, Smeets, Kaldewaij, and Duijndam) have confirmed that humans use chemical signals to communicate emotional states to other humans.
A recent study at the University of Michigan supports co-locating team members.
Nugent provides many practical suggestions for the design of residential common areas that college students are likely to use.