Technology and space work together. It's a customizable world and people are happier when they can choose a space that works for them. Let's find a balance.

1. HOW TO BE HAPPY:
FINDING THE BALANCE
WITH TECHNOLOGY

2. Every day humanity:
watches
4 billion videos
shares
70 million photos
tweets
500 million times

3. Technology
has progressed
exponentially.
It took 46 years
for a quarter of the
American population
to adopt electricity,
but only 13 years to
adopt the cell phone.

4. The way
we process
information
has changed.
We have become
a visual society:
The human brain
processes images
60,000 times faster
than words.
60,000X
FASTER
images
than words

5. We only get 3-5 seconds
to make an impression online.
Almost 3/4 of US adults—including Millennials—
believe that technology has become too distracting.

6. People
need
balance
between
technology
and the
physical
world.

7. Very seldom do
we experience
technology
without other
tactile elements.
We use a variety of
tools—from analog
to digital to virtual.

8. People need
connection
to technology
and their
space.
Each environment
and the people
using it have
different needs.

9. Community
Space:
A common
gathering and
meeting space
designed
to be flexible
for multi-use
purposes, with
a variety of
audio/visual
privacy.
work with others using
wireless network
show work in real time
on digital displays

10. Conference:
Formal meeting
space with varied
levels of audio/
visual privacy
and furnishings
to support group
work, presenting,
and sharing
information.
digital technology
for presenting
share information with
virtual collaborative
technology
walls for sticky
notes and writing

11. Library:
An individual
or group space
with resources
and inspirational
materials to support
quiet work and
collaboration.
digital display for
research and sharing
books and other tactile
artifacts for reference

12. Lounge:
Spaces that
support informal
conversation,
relaxation, and
work with a
variety of
functions—
from informal
to social, and
collaborative.
digital broadcasting,
from news to entertainment
and information sharing

13. Project Space:
Usually assigned
to a team for a
specified period
of time, it may
be equipped
with audio/
visual privacy
to support group
collaboration and
material display.
post and share
digitally
collaborate with
virtual technology
tactile and 3-D artifacts
for material display

14. Training:
A flexible
group space
that supports
learning and
information
sharing,
equipped
with the
appropriate
tools.
whiteboards
and wall space for
brainstorming
collaborative
technology for
virtual info sharing
digital sharing
for screencasts and
web broadcasting

15. Business
Center:
A co-working
space in a hotel,
airport, or business
district to support a
variety of functions,
from heads-down to
collaborative work.
digital screen-share
for group work
individual digital
connectivity

16. Public
Space:
Anywhere
that work is
done outside
of the office—
in airports, train
stations, public
lobbies, parks,
recreation
centers, etc.
technology for virtual
collaboration
digital connectivity

17. People desire choice in
where and how to work.
In a customizable world, people
are happier when they can choose
what space works best for them.

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