Effects of Interior Color Schemes on Emotion, Task Performance, and Heart Rate in Immersive Virtual Environments

Hyun, Seung; Zhang, Shaojie; Kim, Tae Wan

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“…The degree of depression or simple mood change of the residents was evaluated using Yesavage, Brink, and Rose's Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) [47]. There were 30 evaluation entries used in this study, and each statement can be answered simply by using 'Yes/No'.…”

Section: Elderly Depression Assessment Toolmentioning

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Evaluating the Color Preferences for Elderly Depression in the United Arab Emirates

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The elderly are more prone to develop depression from physical, psychological, and economic changes, and 25.7% of the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) elderly population suffer from depression. Color therapy is a widely accepted treatment to solve the depressive symptoms of the elderly. The color preference of the Seniors’ Happiness Centre—in Ajman UAE—a residential space for the elderly, could improve the quality of life, including depression symptoms. This paper explored the relationship between the color preference of the resident bedroom space and the depressive symptoms. As a methodology, using color images as stimuli, the physiological and psychological responses of the 86 elderly participants to the proposed color preference of the resident bedroom interiors—observed through a viewing box to simulate 3D space perception—were compared and analyzed to investigate the relationship between the color preference and depression by a survey with the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) and Electroencephalogram (EEG) measurement. The results showed that the elderly’s preference for warm colors is higher than that of cold colors, and each room needs a different color scheme because the elderly, 65 and above, have different visual characteristics. There was no significant difference between the left and right alpha wave values of the prefrontal cortex of the participant group. The main reason is that the brain waves are minute electrical signals and appear different from person to person. The color scheme on one side of the wall with increased saturation seemed to improve depressive symptoms effectively. It was found that psychologically, healthy elderly reacted positively to the single-color scheme of the Blue cool color, but elderly with depression reacted well to the contrast color scheme of the Blue-Yellow/Red cool color. This study will serve as critical data to propose more color preferences for the Seniors’ Happiness Center suitable for the elderly by studying the response to more diverse colors in the UAE.

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Section: Elderly Depression Assessment Toolmentioning

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Evaluating the Color Preferences for Elderly Depression in the United Arab Emirates

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“…Colours with high chroma will strongly affect a human's visual perception and physiological response, especially when performing some highly mental workload tasks (such as visual tracking, comparison tasks 69,70 ), and physiological representations will react strongly (eg, physiological signs such as brain cerebral oxygenation, HRV, and galvanic skin response 49 ). Such colours have a promoting effect on task performance 69 but being in such an environment for a long time will cause mental tension and even negative emotions such as depression and anxiety. 71,72…”

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Young people's colour preference and the arousal level of small apartments

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Hemingray

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Color Research & Application

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It is widely believed that people have preferences in relation to the colour of their interior environment. With the development of the global small apartment industry, it is important to understand well people's colour preference for apartments. This study investigated the apartment colour preference (N = 958) and the arousal level measured as heart rate variability for 70 young Chinese people for 21 colours. The findings indicate that young Chinese people (22‐27 years of age) prefer light red, red, yellow, and gray areas of the colour space, and least prefer darker colours in the green, gray, and brown areas of the colour space. In terms of heart rate variability arousal, it was found that colours in the red, purple, and yellow areas of the colour space had the highest effect on heart rate variability arousal, vs gray and brown colours, which were found to have the lowest effect on arousal levels.

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“…A possible solution is through application of immersive virtual environments. For example, Cha et al (2020) explored participant reactions to color within immersive virtual environments and found a positive relationship between color and arousal, specifically with red as a higher arousal hue. Future research using an immersive virtual environment could better simulate a live environment without the loss of experimental control.…”

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Illuminating Music: Impact of Color Hue for Background Lighting on Emotional Arousal in Piano Performance Videos

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This study sought to determine if hues overlayed on a video recording of a piano performance would systematically influence perception of its emotional arousal level. The hues were artificially added to a series of four short video excerpts of different performances using video editing software. Over two experiments 106 participants were sorted into 4 conditions, with each viewing different combinations of musical excerpts (two excerpts with nominally high arousal and two excerpts with nominally low arousal) and hue (red or blue) combinations. Participants rated the emotional arousal depicted by each excerpt. Results indicated that the overall arousal ratings were consistent with the nominal arousal of the selected excerpts. However, hues added to video produced no significant effect on arousal ratings, contrary to predictions. This could be due to the domination of the combined effects of other channels of information (e.g., the music and player movement) over the emotional effects of the hypothesized influence of hue on perceived performance (red expected to enhance and blue to reduce arousal of the performance). To our knowledge this is the first study to investigate the impact of these hues upon perceived arousal of music performance, and has implications for musical performers and stage lighting. Further research that investigates reactions during live performance and manipulation of a wider range of lighting hues, saturation and brightness levels, and editing techniques, is recommended to further scrutinize the veracity of the findings.

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Effects of Interior Color Schemes on Emotion, Task Performance, and Heart Rate in Immersive Virtual Environments

Cited by 29 publications

References 60 publications

Evaluating the Color Preferences for Elderly Depression in the United Arab Emirates

Evaluating the Color Preferences for Elderly Depression in the United Arab Emirates

Young people's colour preference and the arousal level of small apartments

Illuminating Music: Impact of Color Hue for Background Lighting on Emotional Arousal in Piano Performance Videos

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