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The knowledge tool to create great places
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Welcome to the Research Design Connections blogWelcome 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.
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Workers’ Perceptions of Collaborative Environments (07-23-10)Hua and her colleagues comprehensively analyzed workplaces, identifying physical factors perceived by workers to support collaborative work or linked by workers to distractions from other people’s interactions.
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Longevity => More Positive Evaluation (07-22-10)The longer something has been around, the more positive our evaluation of it.
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Psychological State Influences Color Perception (07-21-10)Everyday expressions link psychological depression with the color gray.
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Busyness is Goodness (07-20-10)People dislike being unoccupied, and clever designers may be able to reduce idleness in spaces they develop.
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Where Lab Mice Live Matters (07-19-10)pace design matters to non-human species, too.
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How Little We Notice, In General (07-16-10)In a famous experiment about a decade ago, researchers found that half the people asked to pay attention to something that actors in a video were doing failed to notice a person in a gorilla suit who walked between those actors.
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Language and Looking (07-15-10)Not all languages describe or discuss the physical environment in the same way.
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Real World Test of Inattention While Talking On a Mobil Phone (07-14-10)Although multiple studies have shown that people speaking on mobile phones are not very attentive to their physical environments, prior investigations have often been conducted in somewhat unrealistic circumstances.
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Screening the Back Spaces (07-13-10)Porath and her colleagues have investigated situations in which customers see employees interact who are upset with each other, and the ramifications are dire.

