place science

What difference can a photo of a loved-one make?

Research recently completed by Doxey and Waliczek provides additional evidence that indoor plants are psychologically valuable.

Amy Ando and Payal Shah of the University of Illinois have been probing where to place conservation sites.

Notebook computers give users lots of flexibility to decide how they want to sit (or not sit), maybe too much flexibility. 

Researchers Charles Snowdon of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and David Tele of the University of Maryland School of Music in College Park, have found striking similarities between the sorts of music that tamarin monkeys and humans find calming or stressful. 

It’s the stuff of horror movies but in real life – flickering lights on television screens or elsewhere that induce epileptic seizures. 

Human minds and cities are organized in a similar way.

Recent research at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center investigated what a children’s hospital means emotionally to patients, families, staff members and administrators.

The Center for Health Design and Herman Miller have recently completed the first survey focusing on design research in healthcare settings.

Aanensen and his colleagues have developed a new mobile phone based tool for data collection and communication, to be used by in-field researchers.