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Comparing workplace effects
Comparing workplace effects
Dang and team studied how people spend time on green roofs.
Srna, Barasch, and Small researched the implications of viewing objects that signal the status of owners; their findings have broad implications for the design of both spaces and the objects in them.
Some conversations are as easy as pie, they may even be about pie. Others deal with difficult issues, such as less that optimal professional performance. Neuroscience indicates how design can encourage those more challenging discussions to flow smoothly, whether the people talking are in the same place at the same time or connecting electronically.
Faur and Laursen link classroom seat locations and friendships via a study whose findings are consistent with much prior research.
Migliore, Rossi-Lamastra, and Tagliaro studied, via a literature review, gender issues in workplaces.
In his dissertation project Zhou probed social connections formed in co-working spaces.
McDonald, Bockler, and Kanske studied how hearing different sorts of music influences our thinking about other people.
Pic and Han evaluated how children play indoors and outside.
Workplace design can make worker burnout less likely and employee engagement more probable—neuroscience research details not only why but also how.