Growing Awareness of Natural Fractals
Awareness of the value of designers’ use of visual and audio natural fractal patterns is growing among scientists and informed design clients.
Awareness of the value of designers’ use of visual and audio natural fractal patterns is growing among scientists and informed design clients.
In recent years, employers have begun to offer “napping rooms” with couches or cots at their facilities or to allow employees to sleep at (or under) their desks. The number of these rooms in workplaces is expected to increase in the years ahead.
Open workplaces appear to increase beneficial and appropriately timed inter-employee communication. Becker and Sims found cubicle workspaces to be the least productive of today’s workplaces.
The Workplace Environment Network (WEN) of the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) sponsored a symposium at EDRA's annual meeting to establish the effect of office design on organizational performance.
Understanding and accommodating user needs is a sound design maxim. Researchers interviewed Seattle truck drivers to obtain their views on the design of commercial urban and suburban buildings.
The presence of complex vocal music, similar to the songs found in everyday settings and on popular radio stations, degrades performance of complex cognitive tasks as significantly as noise of the same volume.
A summary of current knowledge concerning the use of color in workplace environments.
For decades, environmental psychologists have been researching how noise (unwanted sound) indoors influences our mood and cognitive performance.
Researchers have known that working in a sea of cubicles is stressful for some time, and The Mind Lab, a British research institute, has just released results of an additional study consistent with these earlier findings.
Environmental psychologists have known for some time that the ability to personalize a workstation increases employee job satisfaction and performance.