The Learning-Friendly Classroom: The educational process is enhanced when human factors principles are integrated into classroom design

when IMPROVING THE DESIGN of the physical environment has enhanced workers' health, safety, and productivity in a wide variety of jobs. Imagine, though, settings in which thousands of people daily try to integrate complex new information and tasks while being hampered by inadequate work space, lighting, air quality, or noise reduction. Imagine further that significant human factors research for these settings is nearly nonexistent; that both new construction and renovation efforts assign little impor-