The knowledge tool to create great places http://www.researchdesignconnections.com Welcome to the Research Design Connections blog. This is a forum to discuss recent research of interest to designers. To comment on a blog entry, please send an e-mail message to sallyaugustin@researchdesignconnections.com. /node/960 Varlander has reviewed the workplace experiences of employees of a Swedish firm that implemented an open space office design. /node/1878 Are you a morning person or an evening person? /node/1877 Designers have been carefully considering the future of the workplace for quite some time. /node/1876 Public health researchers have probed the influence of color coding food and the design of food displays on consumption of healthier and less healthy meal options. /node/1875 Are you working with someone for whom scents, from new carpets or building materials, for example, are a really important issue? /node/1874 British psychologists have learned that all that time we spend sitting at work has repercussions beyond the size of the posterior we’re sitting on. /node/1873 Researchers at Baylor have collected additional evidence regarding the ways in which place communicates nonverbally. /node/1872 Gray explores the influence of interpersonal interactions on experience. /node/1871 Bagchi and Davis have completed research on how the manner in which options are presented influences choices made, which complements existing work in the field. /node/1870 People doing or using design research won’t be surprised by O’Brien and Ellsworth’s recent findings. /node/1869 Niki Harre, a professor at the University of Auckland, is making available free at the website noted below a book length discussion of “strategies to inspire sustainability.” /node/1868 McCarley and his associates compared the ability of younger (early 20’s) and older (early 70’s) people to quickly pick particular information out of visual clutter. /node/1867 Designers collecting information before beginning to plan projects, particularly workplace ones, often ask the people who will use a space about their work – and all designers need to effectively plan their own schedules. /node/1866 A study recently published inThe Journal of Painprovides additional research support for including sound systems in all patient care environments. /node/1865 Urban planners and people in related fields are regularly asked about links between traffic congestion and economic conditions in the congested area. /node/1864 Research readily available to healthcare designers for some time has indicated that listening to music seems to reduce the perceived painfulness of medical procedures. /node/1863 Research regularly reported here links personality and preferred place design. /node/1862 Although research recently conducted at Cornell and London Metropolitan University relates to adult’s and children’s plates, it ultimately may be shown to have repercussions for a broad range of design decisions - such as color use in healthcare facilities where eating needs to be encouraged (e.g., anorexia treatment facilities) – particularly when adults are designing these sorts of spaces for child users. /node/1861 Singh and colleagues reviewed the existing research on adolescent physical activity and academic performance. /node/1860