Daylighting Resources (02-29-12)
The Daylighting Cooperative has enhanced their website (http://www.daylighting.org/).
The Daylighting Cooperative has enhanced their website (http://www.daylighting.org/).
A soon to be published study, authored by Brett Martin of the Queensland University of Technology confirms that people dislike being crowded, even when holiday shopping.
Professors at Wharton are offering advice to retailers that is useful not only for store management but also for the designers with whom they work to develop the environments in which consumers find themselves.
Pham and his colleagues have determined that when consumers are relaxed, their monetary valuations of products are higher.
Retail design continues to have an important influence on vendors’ financial performance. Many of those influences are related to shoppers’ experiences and resulting moods.
Research that will be published in December in the Journal of Consumer Research, authored by Dan King and Chris Janiszewski, indicates that human mood influences the experience of pleasure.
Designers can have a significant influence on the level of acoustical shielding between spaces and new research indicates just how important that shielding can be.
Holiday shopping behaviors reflect men’s and women’s traditional hunter/gatherer roles, according to a press release describing the work of Daniel Kruger at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health.
Research by van Rompay and his colleagues has confirmed that utilitarian and hedonic shoppers respond differently to retail environments.
Arousal caused by music and scent can affect buying behavior.