Lighting Classrooms for Learning (04-29-09)
Winterbottom and Wilkins effectively review lighting conditions in British classrooms and relate the details of their findings to established best practices in classroom lighting.
Winterbottom and Wilkins effectively review lighting conditions in British classrooms and relate the details of their findings to established best practices in classroom lighting.
Places and objects can significantly influence people’s moods.
Gensler’s 2008 survey of American workers has identified four primary ways in which employees spend their workdays and the amount of time they are engaged in different sorts of tasks.
Shirley Dugdale reviews the challenges of designing current and evolving educational settings.
Obscure dependencies are everywhere.
The way in which we are moving influences how our brain is functioning – and applying what is known about the relationship between movement and thought poses interesting challenges for designers
Messeter introduces the concept of place-specific computing.
Designers are often asked to assess the financial value of their efforts.
In an intriguing article Stover reports on the ways that human activity is changing the natural soundscape in which people have evolved.
The form of the terrain they are moving through influences how drivers behave in many of the same ways that analogous spaces influence walking behavior.