New Social-Media Partnership for AIA (05-24-12)
The AIA has formed a new social-media partnership, with Broadcastr, that may ultimately lead to fascinating insights on how we use and experience space.
The AIA has formed a new social-media partnership, with Broadcastr, that may ultimately lead to fascinating insights on how we use and experience space.
Some individuals are more oriented toward the people in their environment and some to things.
Roenneberg and his colleagues tie discrepancies between circadian rhythms and daily responsibilities to obesity, and these circadian rhythm/daily responsibility disconnects (termed “social jetlag”) can arise through lack of exposure to natural light.
New research reiterates the important role physical gestures play in communicating information and reinforces the importance of face-to-face communication, at least until communication technology evolves to the point that gestures can be reliably shared.
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New research, conducted by Prof. Zheng Wang and John Tchernev (both from The Ohio State University), sheds new light on why people multi-task – it feels good.
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The fact that people talking on cell phones are distracted and do silly and sometimes dangerous things isn’t news.
Nikunen and Korpela investigated the influence of scene type (urban, combined/mixed, or natural) on how restorative a view is perceived to be by those looking at it, scene preference, and perceived safety.
Gallagher explores humans’ experience of novelty and the material she reports is useful to designers proposing design solutions.
Research presented by Chris Pawson, Sarah Doherty, Laura Martin, Ruth Soares, Caroline Edmonds, and Mark Gardner on April 18 at the British Psychological Society’s annual conference indicates that human cognitive performance is influenced by hydration.
Research by Banerjee, Chatterjee, and Sinha may explain otherwise puzzling findings related to the perceived brightness of an environment.