Aesthetics Influence Evaluations
Working on aesthetics pays off
Working on aesthetics pays off
Psychological challenges, such as autism, ADHD, depression, and schizophrenia complicate the lives of people with these conditions. Design can make it more likely that they achieve their life objectives.
Designers can deploy faint traces of scents to realize project-related performance goals.
Design elements communicate nonverbally with whomever is seeing, hearing, smelling, or touching them, sending messages about trustworthiness and sophistication, environmental responsibility, and a range of other potentially distinguishing attributes.
People with ADHD benefit from being able to fidget/move while they think, so the design of spaces they will use should not inhibit this behavior.
Andrews and colleagues’ research on people’s behavior in crowded conditions generated intriguing findings.
Researchers at the University of Chicago have probed the extent of sensory impairment in older individuals.
Scientists have learned that by the age of 2, the performance of children’s sensory systems seems to be influenced by their national culture.
A professor at Penn State University, Khanjan Mehta, has learned that there are advantages to building in traditional ways.
Design can influence mood and, as Gasper and Danube report, whatever mood we happen to be in influences our judgments, in general.