Home Offices for Teleworkers (03-01-10)
Ng has reviewed the existing studies related to home offices for teleworkers and determined that effective home offices share many design attributes with successful corporate offices.
Ng has reviewed the existing studies related to home offices for teleworkers and determined that effective home offices share many design attributes with successful corporate offices.
Naps are good for us.
Designers and researchers from Perkins + Will interviewed adolescent residents of a behavioral health facility on the East Coast of the United States to learn more about their facility-related place-based needs.
People who design work environments or objects used in them will find Knoll’s new conceptual model of the workplace through provoking.
Working in a simulating driving environment, Swedish researchers investigated the influences on the type of roadside vegetation on driving behavior.
Bringslimark and her colleagues have reviewed the scientific literature related to the psychological effects of indoor plants.
For some time, psychologists have recognized differences in the ways that people raised in Western cultures and Eastern cultures perceive visual information.
Advocates of full-spectrum fluorescent lights (FSFL) believe that these lights offer unique advantages over cool-white fluorescent lights (CWFL). Researchers Jennifer Veitch and Shelly McColl have investigated these claims by reviewing research conducted from 1941–1999.
Examining previous studies, researcher William Fisk looked at the connection between air quality and the spread of respiratory illness, cases of allergies and asthma, and sick building syndrome.
Marilyn Zelinsky provides a primer, dictionary, and case-history book on what has been variously called “new officing,” “alternative officing,” or “alternative work environments” (AWEs).