Color‐emotion associations in interiors

Güneş, Elif; Olguntürk, Nilgün

doi:10.1002/col.22443

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“…Nonetheless, orange with different value and chroma levels is selected for positive meanings as well, which supports the fact that colour meaning can vary in RITs depending on all colour attributes. Previous studies suggested that green colour in interiors has ‘home’ and ‘calming’ meanings 16 and ‘happiness’ in living room 14 . Similarly, in this study, green colours are selected for ‘beautiful’ and ‘pleasant’ for many RITs.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…Participants did not receive any payment or encouragement. That provided a group of 20 individuals (16 females and 4 males) considering the previous study 14 revealed no gender difference in colour emotions for living rooms. As they needed to recall memories and engage with their knowledge, they needed to spend a very long time on each response to colour associations.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…Semantic aspects of colours in interior architecture were investigated in relation to emotions: Red is associated with disgust and happiness, green is related to happiness, and blue is considered neutral on living room walls 14 . As Lee, Park and Lee 15 (p. 2) summarized in their recent study, “red induces feelings of excitement, tension, unpleasantness, anxiety, anger and warmth; green evokes feelings of comfort and stability; blue induces feelings of comfort, stability and coolness; and yellow evokes feelings of warmth”.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Colour semantics in residential interior architecture on different interior types

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Colour meaning is a challenging decision in interior architecture during the design process; however, specific meanings within different interior types have not yet been investigated. This study explored colour meaning in the context of residential interior types (eg, bedroom) under controlled conditions using 42 Munsell colours varying in hues, value, and chroma levels, with 14 adjectives (eg, comfortable, pleasant). The results demonstrate that some colours convey the same meanings (eg, vulgar) regardless of type of room; however, others (eg, beautiful) tend to require more complicated and sophisticated colour applications in different residential interiors. The study findings proved that colour meaning in RITs can be affected by all colour attributes. All colours that are named orange and red are selected for both negative and positive meanings. Colours that are named purple are selected less and only for negative connotations. The findings present an overall colour meaning guide for these residential interior types, which will be beneficial for decision makers (interior architects, designers, users) and colour researchers.

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Colour semantics in residential interior architecture on different interior types

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Olguntürk

Aslanoğlu

2020

Color Research & Application

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“…Different colors give people different perceptions that trigger psychological responses that may also result in physiological reactions. For example, the red band of color is lively and warm while the green represents life and is calming [28]. Kaufman and Lohr found that all trees with green and red color appearances evoked positive responses [23], but the preference also depends on the environment [29] and other indicators.…”

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Effects of Design Proportion and Distribution of Color in Urban and Suburban Green Space Planning to Visual Aesthetics Quality

Hauer

2020

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Landscape color provides visual attractiveness and is an important landscape architecture construct in design and with aesthetics. Along roadways, plant color in a midground position provides a potential location readily seen by people. However, few studies have quantitatively explored the impact of a green (original) only compared to additions of color on the visual aesthetic quality (VAQ) in this spatial location. In this study, visual images were constructed to contrast four red color proportions (25%, 50%, 75% and 100% of midground) and four color spatial distributions (Red-Single, Red-Group, Green-Single and Green-Group) mixed with three landscapes texture classes (rigid = narrowleaf coniferous, soft = broadleaved, and mixed = both) in the background. As red color proportion increased, VAQ also increased. In the original all green landscape, the background setting had a significant impact on VAQ, but the texture plant design of the foreground had no significant impact on the landscape VAQ. Broadleaved (M VAQ = 63.2) and coniferous landscapes (M VAQ = 55.9) were rated as more attractive than a mixed landscape (M VAQ = 27.9). From the perspective of design color, increasing the proportions of color can improve the VAQ of the landscape. This study indicates that aesthetic quality becomes highest when the color proportion of the middle ground layer was greatest at C 100 (M VAQ = 79.7). Comparing the four spatial color distributions, the single distributed green landscape (M VAQ = 60.9) and the group distributed landscape when started with red (M VAQ = 54.0) had the higher quality than the others. Findings from this study can be used to support public authorities and urban planners to effectively design and manage urban spaces to meet dwellers' needs.Visual aesthetic quality (VAQ) is an index to potentially rate USG [9][10][11] and use by decision makers to design and install landscapes that link people and nature [12,13] and best express people's preferences for landscapes. Most VAQ research comes from landscape studies on agriculture [14], architecture [15], and rural forestry applications [16]. Thus, testing the application of VAQ models into UGS provides another land use to explore the application in built environments.Vegetation imparts aesthetics through color, texture, and form [17]. Other vegetation features, such as the tree stand age and horizontal structure, also show some significant influence on quality [18]. Color is an important element of visual perception and evaluation [19,20] and as much as 80% of people's visual perception comes from color [21]. Thus, vegetation color is an important factor to evaluate and measure to index landscape beauty [3]. Understanding human preference for the color can lead to more attractive UGS through the impact of color on visual beauty.Many studies have shown that plant color is an important factor affecting people's evaluation [6,[22][23][24], but these studies mainly focus on the color change of individual tree parts, such as the leaf [25,26] and flower [27] of a...

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“…Color is an important design element and has a strong relationship with emotions [31]. Green, reminiscent of plants, and blue, reminiscent of the sky and water, are quiet and positive, and they encourage stability [32].…”

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Patient Clothing as a Healing Environment: A Qualitative Interview Study

Kam

Yoo

2021

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Patients’ emotional responses to the hospital environment can be considered as important as medical technology and equipment. Therefore, this study investigated their experiences to determine whether the pattern using hospital identity (HI) elements, a widely used design method for patient clothing in university hospitals, can affect their emotional response and contribute to healing. It aimed to identify whether controlling the motif characteristics, arrangement, and spacing in this pattern design, and the direction between motifs, could be a method to design patient clothing for healing. To investigate patients’ emotional response and suggestions for patient clothing design, an interview-based qualitative approach was used. In-depth interviews were conducted with 12 patients discharged from Kyung Hee University Hospital Medical Center (KHUMC), Seoul. The interview questions consisted of two parts. One part featured questions about participants’ emotional responses to the medical environment and their latest patient clothing experience, and the other featured questions about their emotional response to, and suggestions for, the healing expression of pattern design using HI. The results confirmed that the motif characteristics, arrangement, and spacing, and the direction between motifs, influenced patients’ positive emotions and contributed to the healing effect. Therefore, when the HI elements of a medical institution are applied in the design of patient clothing with the characteristics of a healing design, patients perceive this as providing stability and comfort. The design of patient clothing becomes a medium that not only builds the brand image of medical institutions, but also enhances the quality of medical services centered on patient healing.

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Color‐emotion associations in interiors

Cited by 41 publications

References 17 publications

Colour semantics in residential interior architecture on different interior types

Colour semantics in residential interior architecture on different interior types

Effects of Design Proportion and Distribution of Color in Urban and Suburban Green Space Planning to Visual Aesthetics Quality

Patient Clothing as a Healing Environment: A Qualitative Interview Study

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