Increasing Energy Conservation in the Workplace (02-23-11)
Energy conservation is popular for two reasons – it is both environmentally and fiscally responsible.
Energy conservation is popular for two reasons – it is both environmentally and fiscally responsible.
New research related to neighborhood design and the use of outdoor spaces by children after school has been published.
Biologists Kimberly Pollard and Daniel Blumstein at UCLA have investigated the behavior of rodents that live in social groups when those animals are in like-species crowds, and feel that their findings can be extrapolated to humans.
Designers developing spaces that will be visited repeatedly by the same individuals may be interested to learn how perceptions of distances in those places will change over time.
Topolinski probed the psychological ramifications of dialing particular numbers on cell phones and his work illustrates how apparently minor aspects of our environments can significantly influence our lives.
Victoria Leavitt, of the Kessler Foundation in New Jersey has investigated cognitive processing in people with multiple sclerosis.
Design researchers collecting data around the world, and comparing study results from one country to the next, will find recent research conducted by Morrison, Tay, and Diener interesting.
Recent research results discussed by Ungemach and colleagues indicate why it is so hard to get individuals to agree on a design (or other) decision.
In a chapter in the soon to be released Oxford Handbook of Human Capital, Vischer discusses the influence of the physical work environment on the human capital of organizations.
The General Services Administration (GSA) has released online a 3-D interactive program to streamline the planning of sustainable office buildings.