Visualizing Situations: Comparing Comprehension and Emotion between Simple and Detailed Dining Situation Sketches

Exploring the Role of Color in Dining Experience Phase 2: Analyzing Diversity of Choice of Tableware Color, Structure of Explanation Thinking and the Comparison of Emotions between Simple and Detailed Dining Situation Sketches in Young Females

“…In this study, participants were indicated that the tableware should be the tools and containers on the dining table, such as plates, bowls, cups, etc. Therefore, the tableware in this study only refers to [18] the tools and containers directly interact with food and users. As a follow up questionnaire, the first step in this phase was a questionnaire asking these participants to describe the reason why they select the colors in free comments.…”

“…Few has discussed about what art style and how simple should the stimuli be [18]. It is not clear that whether the design/art style and the simplicity of the stimuli affect the perception of the people looking at it [18]. Therefore, in our study, it is also important to discuss that whether the way of presenting dining situations could affect the perception, emotion of participants, which might lead to a different tendency of color selection.…”

“…For the second step of this phase of the study, we designed another version of situation sketches with simpler style [18], less visual element presentations, shown as Figure 3.…”

“…There are other studies that involved visualizations of situations, applying visual stimuli such as cartoonish images or sketches, which are considered more universal than verbal tools that rely on a level of capability of understanding a certain language [18]. For instance, Cartoonish sketches that describe certain situations are employed to visualize and present different situations in previous studies [19,20].…”

“…The researchers created visualized situations with specific design/art style of the characters and objects in the image, and the characters have unique features such as hair styles, different outfit and body ratio. Few has discussed about what art style and how simple should the stimuli be [18]. It is not clear that whether the design/art style and the simplicity of the stimuli affect the perception of the people looking at it [18].…”