10 Questions on Room Color: Answers for Workplace Designers

Schatz, Sae; Bowers, Clint A.

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“…However, these studies yielded few findings between the psychological impact of indirect experiences with nature, such as biomorphic forms and patterns, materials, and natural images that could enhance creativity and productivity (Joye, 2007;Lichtenfeld et al, 2012). Schatz and Bowers (2005) investigated how color design in the workplace influences worker moods, performance, productivity, and satisfaction. Tsunetsugu et al (2007) discovered that an interior that is composed of 45% wood imbues a sense of comfort, naturalness, and restfulness; these results are similar to those of a study that incorporated natural elements in a hospital setting (Nyrud et al, 2014).…”

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“…2007;Herzog & Kropscott, 2004;Joye, 2007) Material connection with nature (Joye, 2007;Koga & Iwasaki, 2013;Lichtenfeld et al, 2012;Nyrud et al, 2014;Schatz & Bowers, 2005;Tsunetsugu et al, 2007;Reddy et al, 2012) Presence of natural images (Beute & de Kort, 2013;Brown et al, 2013;Chang & Chen, 2005;Felsten, 2009;Herzog, & Kropscott, 2004;Hunter et al, 2010;Kjellgren & Buhrkall, 2010;Lee et al, 2015;Nyrud et al, 2014;Pheasant et al, 2010;Ulrich et al, 1991;White et al, 2010;White & Gatersleben, 2011;Van den Berg et al, 2003) Simulated natural light and air…”

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Health benefits of evidence-based biophilic-designed environments: A review

Hung

Chang

2021

J. People Plants Environ

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Background and objective: People-nature experiences, which suggest that humans seek connections between nature and other forms of life, were presented by biologist E. O. Wilson in 1984. Biophilic design attributes support environments that can improve human connections to nature. A significant amount of literature on environmental psychology provides empirical evidence that nature benefits humans, and that practical landscape and built environments can be designed to link humans and nature (e.g., the 14 biophilic design patterns). To date, however, there has been no well-done research on reviewing the health benefits of biophilic design. Methods: The paper provides a narrative review on biophilic design and human health. The scope of this article is limited to biophilic-design books and peer-review articles related to "biophilic design," "evidence-based," "benefits," "health," rather than an attempt to identify universal issues with biophilia hypothesis. Results: A total of 45 papers were included in our review, which was related to the top five biophilic design patterns and design: the presence of natural images, the presence of plants, visual and non-visual connections to nature, and material connection with nature. These studies were related to physiology and psychology through direct or indirect connections with nature and experiences in space and place. Conclusion: This study presents two important comparisons of the empirical research on biophilic design and human health that can explain the relationship of people-nature experiences to biophilic design and human health and provides insights into related researches and recommendations for future application of our findings.

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Health benefits of evidence-based biophilic-designed environments: A review

Hung

Chang

2021

J. People Plants Environ

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“…Based on such common conventions, we would not want to use pink to code states with a majority of male residents while using blue to code those with more female residents. Data on common color associations are available to designers (e.g., Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 2008; Pantone, n.d.), although these associations tend to vary with time and culture (Schatz & Bowers, 2005). Still, using a display element to represent a data element with very different associations may create comprehension difficulties for the display's user.…”

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Visuospatial displays: Design problems and principles.

Carswell¹,

Seidelman²

2015

APA Handbook of Human Systems Integration.

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A system's visual displays can be considered its face. With well-designed displays, the interplay among a system's functions, parts, processes, data structures, and agents becomes less abstract and more like the familiar countenance of a partner. Both displays and faces can be described formally as collections of metric and categorical relationships among features. Some properties of both displays and faces acquire special psychological status, as when a collection of display elements signals "all normal" in a safety-critical system, or when a collection of facial features conveys happiness. Displays and faces can be responsive or impassive, expressive or inscrutable, trustworthy or unreliable. Unlike faces, however, displays are totally ours to design.In this chapter, we discuss problems that designers confront in the development of displays, and we look at data-driven principles of human perception, cognition, and action that can help solve them. We focus on visuospatial analog displays, which use perceptual dimensions such as extent and brightness to represent the values of system variables. We draw from and expand upon design principles offered by Gillan, Wickens, Hollands, and Carswell (1998); Hegarty (2011); Kosslyn (2006); Robertson, Czerwinski, Fisher, and Lee (2009); Wickens, Lee, Liu, and Gordon-Becker (2003); as well as others. Readers wanting to know more about the empirical foundations of individual principles are directed to Ware (2013) and Wickens, Hollands, Banbury, and Parasuraman (2013). DESIGN ELEMENTS AND DESIGN PROBLEMSDesign elements used to create analog displays have three main functions. First, display dimensions are the properties of display objects that designers vary to represent data values. Thus, bar charts represent data by varying the height (display dimension) of bars (display objects). Facilitators, such as labels, legends, and axes, are a second functional design element. They are added to displays to help users locate, identify, and compare display dimensions. Finally, embellishments are intended to enhance visual interest or attractiveness, or to reinforce the display's general theme.Display formats are combinations of graphical objects, dimensions, and facilitators that have been standardized within a domain, such as scatterplots, box plots, and Pareto charts in statistical analysis or high-low-close charts in finance. In this chapter, we consider a variety of formats, but we single out one format-face displays-to illustrate many design dilemmas. If displays can sometimes seem like faces, then it is not surprising that designers have sometimes used faces as displays (e.g., Chernoff, 1973). In Figure 25.1, face displays are part of a fictional learning management system (LMS) dashboard, intended to help instructors monitor the progress of students. The features of six faces are used to represent outcomes for six students. For example, the width of the mouth is used to represent classroom participation. Although Figure 25.1 demonstrates

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