Texture affects color emotion

Abstract

Several studies have recorded color emotions in subjects viewing uniform color (UC) samples. We conduct an experiment to measure and model how these color emotions change when texture is added to the color samples. Using a computer monitor, our subjects arrange samples along four scales: warm-cool, masculine-feminine, hard-soft, and heavy-light. Three sample types of increasing visual complexity are used: UC, grayscale textures, and color textures (CTs). To assess the intraobserver variability, the experiment is repeated after 1 week. Our results show that texture fully determines the responses on the Hard-Soft scale, and plays a role of decreasing weight for the masculine-feminine, heavy-light, and warm-cool scales. Using some 25,000 observer responses, we derive color emotion functions that predict the group-averaged scale responses from the samples' color and texture parameters. For UC samples, the accuracy of our functions is significantly higher (average R 2 ¼ 0.88) than that of previously reported functions applied to our data. The functions derived for CT samples have an accuracy of R 2 ¼ 0.80. We conclude that when textured samples are used in color emotion studies, the psychological responses may be strongly affected by texture.

Affective Analysis of Abstract Paintings Using Statistical Analysis and Art Theory

“…However, 'texture' itself plays a great importance in the distribution of images from 'hard' to 'soft'. This observation is in agreement with the results of Lucassen et al [2011] which reports the hard-soft scales independency of colour and its domi-nance by texture. Hence the parameters that bring texture to the fore, such as brushstrokes, complexity, composition become essential elements.…”

“…In addition, we use a study from the psychophysics literature that looked into the contribution of texture in the perception of different emotions about an image, including masculinity-femininity, heavinesslightness, and hardness-softness perception. In Lucassen et al [2011], synthetic and parameterized textures created with Perlin noise were used to conduct a user study. The authors created a model that maps the Perlin parameters of the image to the feeling it induces.…”

“…A psychophysical experiment assessing the effect of texture on color emotion was conducted by Lucassen et al [2011]. They presented the subjects with textured image patches in varying colours and asked the subjects to place those images on four emotion scales: warmness-coolness, masculinity-femininity, hardness-softness and heavinesslightness.…”

“…For training the classifier, we created eight images with different appearances for each Perlin parameter set used by Lucassen et al [2011] in their experiment. This gave us a total of 840 Perlin images, whose parameters span the three emotion scales described in the previous section.…”

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“…These emotions, i.e., arousal and valence were predicted successfully with 90% and 80% (Ding, Wang, Hu & Wang, 2008). Lucassen, Gevers and Gijsenij (2011) showed that texture has an important impact on colour response especially for hard-soft scale and works on decreasing weight for masculine-feminine, heavy-light, and warm-cool emotion scales (Lucassen, Gevers & Gijsenij, 2011). Adler (2017) indicated that previous research studies indicated that 'Hue' is described by the dominant wavelength affecting our emotions.…”