White Noise Beneficial for Some Students (09-29-10)
Adding white noise to school environments enhances performance of some students and harms that of others.
Adding white noise to school environments enhances performance of some students and harms that of others.
The Pennsylvania State Hershey Cancer Institute, designed by Payette, has won the Generative Space Health Improvement Award, presented by the CARITAS Project.
Barker reports recent research by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) on the evolving form of American homes.
It seems logical that the physical design of workplaces where people spend their days should have ramifications for workers’ well-being after they leave them, but this study is among the first to rigorously explore that relationship.
Moving closer to outdoor recreation sites does not mean that people will become trim.
Finnish researchers have found that the more a person expects to like using a new cell phone, the more likely they actually will like using it.
What sort of landscape do people living in the high desert prefer?
As Carney and her colleagues relate, some physical postures are more indicative of power than others: “Humans and other animals express power through open, expansive postures, and they express powerlessness through closed, contractive postures.”
Smith-Jackson and Klein evaluated the influence of irrelevant speech on task performance in open-plan offices. This research is special because of the analyses completed.
Colzato and colleagues have completed an intriguing study indicating that religious views are related to whether people literally focus on details or an image overall.