Is Digital Nature as Soothing as the Real Deal?
Friday, June 13, 2008 - 13:22
in Mathematics & Economics
Discovery Channel addicts, get outside! HDTV may offer a vivid window on the natural world, but it won’t substitute for the real thing. That’s the implication from a new psychological study from the University of Washington’s Human Interaction with Nature and Technological Systems (HINTS) Lab, which found, in fact, that nature on a plasma screen is no more soothing than a blank wall. read more