Urban Design and Socializing (04-17-13)
Steven Farber and others from the University of Utah investigated how city design influences socializing.
Steven Farber and others from the University of Utah investigated how city design influences socializing.
In a 2012 presentation at Light Canada/IIDEX 2012, Jennifer Veitch of the National Research Council Canada effectively summarized the findings of office lighting research carried out by her, her colleagues, and other researchers.
New research suggests that people developing spaces that will be used by autistic people, for example, as classrooms, should insure that those areas are pet friendly.
Steidle and colleagues discussed the influences of light and temperature on social behavior at ExperiencingLight 2012, a prestigious international conference.
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.
Many recent workplace design projects encourage work outside company owned/rented office buildings and the increasing number of distributed teams means that some work groups have little or no face-to-face contact with each other.
Lee and Schwarz build on the growing body of research indicating that many metaphorical expressions related to physical experiences seem to have a psychological component.