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Seeing Anxiety: Ecological Video Ethnography and Simulation to Understand Anxiety and Decision‐Making in Dental Care

open access: yesHealth Expectations, Volume 29, Issue 3, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Dental anxiety is a widespread barrier to care, often contributing to appointment avoidance, treatment disruption, and emotional strain for both patients and clinicians. While extensively studied as a psychological trait, less attention has been paid to how anxiety manifests situationally and relationally, through non‐verbal ...
Mona Nasser   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘It's Like a Horror Movie That You Walk Through’: Experiencing Horror Through Immersive Recreation

open access: yesThe Journal of American Culture, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 121-130, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Horror stories have provided enjoyable forms of leisure for centuries. Over the past five decades, however, these experiences have evolved into increasingly immersive forms of popular culture. What once involved constructing the narrative world internally through reading has expanded into sensory engagement through visual and auditory media ...
Susan Weidmann
wiley   +1 more source

The new ISO-standard on “Soundscape” - Maximizing the benefit for the Architectural design process [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The new ISO 12913-1 introduces a conceptional framework for the ”Soundscape” approach and refers to ”factors relevant for measurement and reporting of soundscape studies, as well as planning, design and management of soundscape”. This emphasises a common
Bauer, Jurgen
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Blind Spots in Product Design: Utilitarian–Hedonic Choices, Psychological Processes and Retail Strategy Interplay for Visually Impaired Consumers

open access: yesJournal of Consumer Affairs, Volume 60, Issue 2, Summer 2026.
ABSTRACT Visually impaired individuals represent a sizable segment of the global population but remain underrepresented in consumer research. Existing literature mainly frames visually impaired consumers (VICs) through a vulnerability lens, focusing on shopping barriers and assistive remedies.
Bruno Veneziano Cornacchioni   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The aural eye: soundscape practice and pedagogy in design education

open access: yes, 2005
Human aural experience can be equally considered along spatial and temporal continuums. We hear at all times of the day and night, and within all places and spaces: built, natural, public, private and virtual.
Lawrence Harvey (18029119)
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Soundscape and the human scale in urban design

open access: yes, 2015
With changing practices in urban planning, moving away from thinking of the city primarily in terms of infrastructure towards a growing appreciation of the city as a stage for social interaction, the human scale is all more important in urban design ...
Axelsson, Östen,
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Soundscape [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Den här uppsatsen fokuserar på ljuden i vår utemiljö, hur vi upplever dem och hur landskapsarkitekter och planerare kan använda ljud i gestaltningen av det offentliga rummet.
Neumüller, Ia
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Representation of the soundscape in the architectural design process

open access: yesEGA, 2019
[EN] Insight is one of the main phases of the architectural design process. Throughout history, various methods have been used to address this crucial phase. In this study, a soundscape is proposed as a generator of project ideas. To explore this new approach, a teaching experience was carried out with architecture students and the results were ...
Llorca-Bofí, Josep   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

A positive soundscape evaluation tool

open access: yes, 2009
Current policy on environmental sound is largely based on noise control. There is considerable interest in exploiting the soundscape concept to provide a more sophisticated way of managing our acoustic environment.
Adams, Mags   +13 more
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The scale of sense : spatial extent and multimodal urban design

open access: yes, 2008
This paper is derived from the work of the UK AHRC/EPSRC 'Designing for the 21st Century' research project Multimodal Representation of Urban Space. This research group seeks to establish a new form of notation for urban design which pays attention to ...
Romice, Ombretta   +2 more
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