Age and Response to Innovation (03-26-12)
People who are older have a reputation for being less likely to adopt new products and ideas than people who are younger.
People who are older have a reputation for being less likely to adopt new products and ideas than people who are younger.
Frankenstein and her colleagues investigated mental maps of familiar places.
ASID has prepared its 2012 Environmental Scanning Report, which is available free at the web address noted below.
Designers developing spaces such as health clubs, where women can be expected to change their clothes, will find Marianne Clark’s recent research at the University of Alberta readily applicable.
Research continues on embodied cognition, highlighting links between physical and mental experience.
Restorative experiences, those that help people restock their mental energy after cognitively exhausting work, are important for psychological well-being.
Tony McCaffrey developed the generic-parts technique (GPT) to increase the odds that innovative solutions to problems are uncovered.
It seems clear that the clothes we wear have some influence on how we think, but this topic has not been thoroughly researched.
Researchers continue to investigate how our sensory experiences are integrated.
Baron examines “the interpretive processes historians engage in when ‘reading’ historic buildings,” “examines what qualifies as historical thinking about historic buildings and sites,” and ponders using historic buildings as an educational tool.