Architects have long had the feeling that the place we live in can affect our thoughts, feeling and behaviour. But now scientists1.(give) this feeling an empirical (实证的) basis. They are discovering how2.(design) spaces that promote creativity, keep people focused, and lead to relaxation....
immune system is so complex; there are so manymoving parts," Brodin says. "If we focus only on, let's say, one type of cell or protein, we're notgoing to be able to see how the system as a whole is wired, or how it's regulated and functions in agiven patient at a given ...
I love writing in part because of the visuals that are so amazingly powerful in poetry. Recently, at Poetic Bloomings, we had a prompt that involved clouds. Coincidentally, that morning I had a visual as I pulled out of my driveway and faced the eastern sky. A mountain range had suddenl...
Parafoveal processingTo examine the role of inter-word spaces during reading, we used a gaze-contingent boundary paradigm to manipulate parafoveal preview (i.e., valid vs. invalid preview) in a normal text condition thatdoi:10.3758/s13423-015-0997-yHeather Sheridan...
This goes beyond basic diversity initiatives to create spaces where different perspectives are actively sought and valued. A study7 found that diverse teams make better decisions 87% of the time. But beyond just being diverse, these teams need your active leadership to nurture an environment where...
We send in rescue (援救) dogs. Why? Because they can smell people. Dogs save lives. They help rescuers to find living people. But dogs are big and they can’t get into small spaces. So now a new research project is using a smaller animal to save lives : the rat. How does it ...
In some cases people switch between the modes depending on the game, for example, and that may depend on whether they are playing from their own perspective, or the perspective of an object in space relative to the virtual world around it. https://twitter.com/UndeadDomain/status/1334178324638...
When we find them, we’ll realize that wholesome things are those that tell us we’re safe, and importantly, that we areintendedto be so. A crosswalk at a stoplight isn’t inherently wholesome; perhaps it’s even a nuisance if you’re in a hurry. But a street full of drivers who ...
Day in and day out, we're constantly navigating away from boring spaces into interesting spaces. And how do we do this? There are two dominant ways that we've evolved to contend with this troubling mood state. On the one hand, you've got avoidance. So if I'm in a boring situation,...
Kaysie sees the content design process at Hotjar as mirroring a standardUX design process: “Our content designers are involved in everything, from researching the audience and writing user stories to finding areas for improvement after launch. Ideally, they are always so close to their work that...