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• ND-0035 · 2024 · Systematic review

  HighDirect built environment

  Biophilic design in healthcare: a systematic review of health and wellbeing outcomes

  Al Khatib, Samara & Ndiaye. Frontiers in Built Environment

  The review links biophilic interventions with reduced stress, anxiety and pain and with some recovery-related outcomes, while evidence strength varies.

• ND-0081 · 2026 · Systematic review

  HighDirect built environment

  Psychophysiological responses to indoor wood use: A systematic literature review of indicators, methods, and research trends

  Authors per journal record. Building and Environment

  Visual wood exposure is the most studied modality, with heart rate and prefrontal measures common; the field needs longer exposures and more diverse samples.

• ND-0082 · 2026 · Systematic review

  HighDirect built environment

  Effect of Wood Indoor Environments on Human Psychophysiological Responses and Evaluation Indicators: A Review

  Authors per journal record. Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology

  Across 24 selected experiments, wood exposure generally tended toward more favorable psychological and physiological responses.

• ND-0083 · 2019 · Experimental study

  ModerateDirect built environment

  Physiological effects of visual stimulation with full-scale wall images composed of vertically and horizontally arranged wooden elements

  Nakamura, Ikei & Miyazaki. Journal of Wood Science

  Wooden-wall images reduced prefrontal oxyhemoglobin relative to a gray control and improved several subjective mood impressions; vertical and horizontal arrangements differed.

• ND-0090 · 2024 · Book chapter / review

  Moderate-highAdjacent human mechanism

  Fractal Fluency: Processing of Fractal Stimuli Across Sight, Sound, and Touch

  Taylor et al. Advances in Neurobiology

  Extends fractal-fluency ideas across vision, sound and touch and links mid-range complexity to processing ease and stress outcomes.

• ND-0104 · 2026 · Rating system / standard

  NormativeStandard/guideline

  WELL Building Standard v2

  International WELL Building Institute. IWBI

  Organizes health-supportive building strategies into ten concepts with preconditions and optimizations.