Like the tuning list but for folks who want to get mathematical. The going can be heavy at times, so here are theory-laden links to the work of some list members:
Paul Erlich Gene Smith Graham Breed Herman Miller Dave Keenan Kees van Prooijen
A. Fiore, S. Tiernan, and M. Smith. CHI '02: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, page 323--330. New York, NY, USA, ACM Press, (2002)
Q. Jones, G. Ravid, and S. Rafaeli. CHI '01: CHI '01 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, page 177--178. New York, NY, USA, ACM Press, (2001)