Shitsukan — the Multisensory Perception of Quality

Spence, Charles

doi:10.1163/22134808-bja10003

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“…The convincingness of translucency is enhanced with glossiness, proposedly due to the memory of familiar objects ( Fleming & Bülthoff, 2005 ). Material perception has been shown to be a multimodal process relying on multisensory information ( Spence, 2020 ). If material identification contributes to translucency perception, this opens up a new question, whether the senses other than vision play a role in the perception of translucency, either directly or indirectly.…”

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Translucency perception: A review

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Translucency is an optical and a perceptual phenomenon that characterizes subsurface light transport through objects and materials. Translucency as an optical property of a material relates to the radiative transfer inside and through this medium, and translucency as a perceptual phenomenon describes the visual sensation experienced by humans when observing a given material under given conditions. The knowledge about the visual mechanisms of the translucency perception remains limited. Accurate prediction of the appearance of the translucent objects can have a significant commercial impact in the fields such as three-dimensional printing. However, little is known how the optical properties of a material relate to a perception evoked in humans. This article overviews the knowledge status about the visual perception of translucency and highlights the applications of the translucency perception research. Furthermore, this review summarizes current knowledge gaps, fundamental challenges and existing ambiguities with a goal to facilitate translucency perception research in the future.

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Section: Factors Impacting Translucencymentioning

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Translucency perception: A review

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“…(Anderton, 1991, p. 27). The multisensory appreciation of quality here linking to a growing body of research on multisensory shitsukan perceptionshitsukan, the Japanese word for "a sense of material quality" or "material perception" (see Fujisaki, 2020;Komatsu & Goda, 2018;Spence, 2020b). The following sub-sections summarize some of the key findings on how the non-visual sensory attributes of the built and urban environment affect us, when considered individually.…”

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Senses of place: architectural design for the multisensory mind

Spence

2020

Cogn. Research

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Traditionally, architectural practice has been dominated by the eye/sight. In recent decades, though, architects and designers have increasingly started to consider the other senses, namely sound, touch (including proprioception, kinesthesis, and the vestibular sense), smell, and on rare occasions, even taste in their work. As yet, there has been little recognition of the growing understanding of the multisensory nature of the human mind that has emerged from the field of cognitive neuroscience research. This review therefore provides a summary of the role of the human senses in architectural design practice, both when considered individually and, more importantly, when studied collectively. For it is only by recognizing the fundamentally multisensory nature of perception that one can really hope to explain a number of surprising crossmodal environmental or atmospheric interactions, such as between lighting colour and thermal comfort and between sound and the perceived safety of public space. At the same time, however, the contemporary focus on synaesthetic design needs to be reframed in terms of the crossmodal correspondences and multisensory integration, at least if the most is to be made of multisensory interactions and synergies that have been uncovered in recent years. Looking to the future, the hope is that architectural design practice will increasingly incorporate our growing understanding of the human senses, and how they influence one another. Such a multisensory approach will hopefully lead to the development of buildings and urban spaces that do a better job of promoting our social, cognitive, and emotional development, rather than hindering it, as has too often been the case previously.

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“…Meanwhile, outside the F&B category (i.e., in HPC), different rules may apply [66]. As Ye et al [77] suggest, it would also be interesting to know whether automobiles with a shinier paint finish are also perceived as faster, and more luxurious [110].…”

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On the Questionable Appeal of Glossy/Shiny Food Packaging

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2021

Foods

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Those stimuli that have a shiny/glossy visual appearance are typically rated as both attractive and attention capturing. Indeed, for millennia, shiny precious metals and glossy lacquerware have been used to enhance the presentation, and thus the perception, of food and drink. As such, one might have expected that adding a shiny/glossy appearance/finish to the outer packaging of food and beverage products would also be desirable. However, the latest research appears to show that many consumers have internalised an association between glossy packaging and greasy (or unhealthy) food products, while matte packaging tends to be associated with those foods that are more natural instead. Furthermore, it turns out that many consumers do not necessarily appreciate the attempt to capture their attention that glossy packaging so often affords. At the same time, it is important to recognise that somewhat different associations may apply in the case of inner versus outer food and beverage packaging. Shiny metallic (inner) packaging may well prime (rightly or wrongly) concerns about sustainability amongst consumers. Given the research that has been published in recent years, food and beverage manufacturers/marketers should think very carefully about whether or not to introduce such shiny/glossy finishes to their packaging.

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Shitsukan — the Multisensory Perception of Quality

Cited by 28 publications

References 236 publications

Translucency perception: A review

Translucency perception: A review

Senses of place: architectural design for the multisensory mind

On the Questionable Appeal of Glossy/Shiny Food Packaging

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