Aligning Organizational Culture and Design
Coordinating design with organizational culture sends clear signals to space users about how an organization “thinks and behaves.” It enhances user wellbeing and cognitive performance; culture-inconsistent design stresses users, compromising their mental and physical health and comfort.
Designing for Positive, Productive Conversations
When all participants can effectively and efficiently communicate with each other, conversations help us manage our world and resolve differences in opinions. Design can make it more likely that constructive discussions take place.
Green Design – Recent Research
In studies published during the last three years (2015 to 2017), cognitive scientists have thoroughly investigated how people experience environmentally responsible design and its effects on their welfare and wellbeing. This article summarizes their findings on “living green.”
Healthy City 2017 – Energizing and Informing Research and Practice
People interested in developing health-promoting cities gathered in London for the first Healthy City International Congress and Exhibition.
Temperature and Glare
Perceptions and temperature related
Still or Moving Images?
Motion affects evaluations
Green Certification and Occupant Satisfaction
Certifying is not satisfying
Activity-Based Work Environments: Implications
Workplace options => opinions and behaviors
Living in a Smart Home
Some pluses, some minuses
Experiencing Energy Efficiency
Efficiency tied to feeling comfortable
A Workplace Design Hierarchy
Oseland reports design priorities
Workplace Art and Creativity
Art and creativity, linked
Visioning Technologies: The Architectures of Sight
Understand technology's role in past, and future, design
Flavor: The Science of Our Most Neglected Sense
Learn about flavor, design better spaces/objects