V’s Capture and Hold Attention (8-09-07)
V shapes capture and hold our attention.
V shapes capture and hold our attention.
The British Council of Offices has identified four purposes served by an office building’s site.
Men and women differ in their responses to hotel room design.
Balcetis’ and Dunning’s work has shown that “the motivation to resolve cognitive dissonance affects the visual perception of physical environments.”
Many people working in offices in the United States and Great Britain, not just those “performing repetitive or routine work,” are bored.
Children from 8-15 in a recent test generally preferred landscape paintings of scenes with prospect, or “an unimpeded opportunity to see” into the distance.
People with particular demographic and personality profiles tend to prefer certain sorts of art.
Presentation context has a significant influence on alternative selection.
The British Council for Offices’ (BCO) report on the performance ramifications of workplace design discusses the value of using design to communicate company beliefs and values to employees, among many other points.
Finnish researchers have found that adolescents use music in seven different ways to control and improve their moods.