Designing for Autistic Children (04-18-11)
People with autism spectrum disorders often wander.
Healthcare
Listening to Music and Reading Comprehension (04-13-11)
Johansson and his colleagues have studied how important music selection is when it is broadcast in areas where people are trying to concentrate.
Art and Medication Use
Displaying certain types of art reduces medication for agitation.
Design for People Who’ve Been Awake All Night (03-24-11)
Designers often are called upon to develop spaces for people who’ve been up all night – from college campuses to airports.
Art and Medication Use (03-22-11)
Nanda (American Art Resources) and colleagues Eisen (Texas Christian University) and Owen (East Alabama Medical Center) have investigated the relationship between art viewed by psychiatric patents and their medication use.
Sunlight and Multiple Sclerosis (03-02-11)
Designers developing residences and treatment facilities for people with multiple sclerosis will find a recently completed study useful.
Office Plants: Worth the Fertilizer? (01-21-11)
As snow covers most of North America, and office workers’ views of nearby nature are shrouded under a thick white blanket, thoughts turn to potted plants in offices.
Plants and Residential Rehab (12-30-10)
During a recent study, addition of new plants in indoor common areas at a residential rehabilitation center improved the self-perceived well-being of pulmonary patients.
Visual Art in Healthcare: Is the Jury Still Out?
Over the last few decades much has been written, and discussed, about the role of nature in healthcare environments (including the role of visual art with nature images). In healthcare settings, the primary focus must be that loyalty in healthcare art is not towards the Artist, or the field of the Arts, but towards the patient.
Music for Patients on Ventilators (12-08-10)
Patients on ventilators listening to music experience less stress than ventilated patients not listening to music.
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