Additional considerations concerning the effects of ‘warm’ and ‘cool’ wall colours on energy conservation

Greene, Thomas C.; Bell, Paul A.

doi:10.1080/00140138008924804

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“…They had produced, however, less spectacular results than those reported by Winett et al (1981Winett et al ( , 1982. Greene and Bell (1980) pointed out that a small number of subjects was used in these experiments, and that they were not naive. Red hues should induce a warmer feeling.…”

Section: Thermal Comfortmentioning

confidence: 77%

Comfort as a property of the dwelling: A conceptual analysis

Heijs¹,

Stringer²

1987

Neth. J. of Housing and environment Res.

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Section: Thermal Comfortmentioning

confidence: 77%

Comfort as a property of the dwelling: A conceptual analysis

Heijs¹,

Stringer²

1987

Neth. J. of Housing and environment Res.

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“…Needless to say, the hue-heat effect is one of the multisensory phenomena between vision and thermal sensing. There have been various researches about the hue-heat effect [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19], and we are yet to accumulated scientific knowledge about it. For example, a recent study revealed that priming a color affected thermal discrimination [20].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effect of illumination on perceived temperature

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The widely known hue-heat effect, a multisensory phenomenon between vision and thermal sensing, is a hypothesis based on the idea that light and colors affect perceived temperature. However, the application of this effect has not been prevalent in our daily lives. To work towards developing more practical use of the hue-heat effect, we conducted a series of psychophysical experiments to investigate the relationship between perceived temperature and illumination in a well-controlled experimental environment. The results showed that illumination had three types of effects to change our sense of coolness/warmness: creating, eliminating, and exchanging effects. Furthermore, we confirmed the existence of two distinctive time courses for the three effects: creating effect started immediately, but the eliminating effect takes time. These findings provide us with a better understanding of the hue-heat effect and enable us to apply it in everyday life. Paired with the new technologies it can also help with energy conservation.

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“…To date, research has been conducted to test the possible association between colour and thermal perception called hue-heat hypothesis using different ways of manipulating colour and responses types. Studies in this regard have utilized coloured lights, 2–5 coloured walls, 6 coloured cylinders, 7 and coloured googles 8 to test the hypothesis. This study investigates the impacts of correlated colour temperature (CCT) of white light on occupants’ thermal sensation and thermal comfort and examines the hue-heat hypothesis using different CCTs commonly found in the indoor workplace environment.…”

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The effect of correlated colour temperature of lighting on thermal sensation and thermal comfort in a simulated indoor workplace

Baniya

Tetri

Virtanen

et al. 2016

Indoor and Built Environment

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The ‘hue-heat’ hypothesis states that an environment which has wavelengths predominantly toward the red end of the visual spectrum feels ‘warm’ and one with wavelengths mainly toward the blue end feels ‘cool’. In order to test the hypothesis and to study the impacts of the correlated colour temperature of a light source on thermal sensation and thermal comfort, a study was conducted in a test room illuminated with an Light Emitting Diode (LED) lighting system with an adjustable correlated colour temperature where air temperature, air velocity, and relative humidity were kept constant. The correlated colour temperature of lighting inside the test room was changed gradually while keeping the colour rendering index values greater than 90, an illuminance level of 500 lx, and chromaticity difference (Duv) values within the limits of ±0.005. Sixteen study subjects were exposed to a ‘high room temperature’ (25℃) and a ‘low room temperature’ (20℃) on different days. The subjects were adapted to low correlated colour temperature (2700 K), medium correlated colour temperature (4000 K), and high correlated colour temperature (6200 K) lighting for 10 min and subsequently completed the questionnaire about their thermal comfort and thermal sensation. The results of this survey did not provide support for the hue-heat hypothesis and indicated that people felt thermally more comfortable in an indoor workplace at the correlated colour temperature of 4000 K than at the correlated colour temperature of 2700 K or 6200 K.

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Additional considerations concerning the effects of ‘warm’ and ‘cool’ wall colours on energy conservation

Cited by 45 publications

References 10 publications

Comfort as a property of the dwelling: A conceptual analysis

Comfort as a property of the dwelling: A conceptual analysis

Effect of illumination on perceived temperature

The effect of correlated colour temperature of lighting on thermal sensation and thermal comfort in a simulated indoor workplace

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