officeinsight: Research-Design Connections
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Research Design Connections: Working in an Open Environment: A Case Study
1.30.12 | Varlander has reviewed the workplace experiences of employees of a Swedish firm that implemented an open space office design. Data were gathered using interviews and by observing at the firm.
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Research Design Connections: Arise From That Chair!
1.23.12 | 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. Dr Myanna Duncan, Mr. Aadil Kazi and Professor Cheryl Haslam from the Work & Health Research Centre, Loughborough University, presented their workplace-based research January 13 at the British Psychological Society's Annual Occupational Conference.
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Research Design Connections: Another Argument for Onsite Fitness Centers
1.16.12 | Researchers at the University of Exeter have completed research that supports including fitness centers in corporate campuses and similar complexes. Adrian Taylor and his colleagues determined that walking briskly for 15 minutes can reduce snacking on chocolate by 50%.
Research Design Connections: 2011 Livable Buildings Awards
12.19.11 | The Center for the Built Environment at the University of California Berkeley conferred its 2011 Livable Buildings Award on the Enermodal Engineering Headquarters building (Robertson Simmons Architects Inc.) in Kitchener, Ontario. The Kresge Foundation Headquarters and the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences won honorable mentions in this contest. The Livable Buildings Awards “showcase buildings that excel in design, operation, and occupant satisfaction.” The 2011 projects singled out for recognition were described as “projects [that] meet the highest standards for providing healthy and productive indoor environments, and also represent best practices for sustainability and overall design.”
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Research Design Connection: Another Argument for Onsite Fitness Centers
12.12.11 | Researchers at the University of Exeter have completed research that supports including fitness centers in corporate campuses and similar complexes. Adrian Taylor and his colleagues determined that walking briskly for 15 minutes can reduce snacking on chocolate by 50%.
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Research Design Connections: Making Ceilings Seem Higher
12.5.11 | Ceilings that seem a little low are an issue that designers need to resolve from time to time. Oberfeld, Hecht, and Gamer researched how the colors used on ceilings, walls, and floors influence the perceived height of a room. They conveniently conclude with a statement of their findings that they intend to serve as a guide for nonscientists…
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Research Design Connections: Same Office, Different Brains
11.27.11 | Recent research supports earlier findings about the rate at which human brains mature and confirms that in any work environment there can be brains at different stages of physical development. During the most recent study, University of Alberta Department of Biomedical Engineering Researchers Prof. Christian Beaulieu and graduate student Catherine Lebel determined using MRI scans that human brain development “continues well into our 20s.”
Research Design Connections: Deciding Where to Work
11.21.11 | The British Council for Offices (BCO) polled 1,000 office workers in the United Kingdom to learn more about their workplace experiences. Researchers determined that “employees greatly valued the social benefits of working in a communal space…" (but read on for the counterpoint)
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Research Design Connections: Same Person, Same Seat
11.14.11 | Marco Costa investigated the tendency of people to sit in the same seat each time they are in a public space. His research was conducted in academic buildings, but it is applicable in a range of other settings such as workplace conference rooms. As Costa states, “students choose the same seat over time in university classrooms. This territorial behavior emerges also if people do not have the possibility to personalize ‘their’ space and to defend it against the invasion of other users when they are absent.”
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Research Design Connections: Implications of Noise in Open-Plan Offices
11.8.11 | Jahncke and her colleagues explored the performance repercussions of noise in open-plan offices. Their “Analyses indicate that [study] participants remembered fewer words, rated themselves as more tired, and were less motivated with work compared to low noise [environments].”
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