Effects of Color Pairs on Warmth Perception in Interiors

Abstract

Warmth perception is a physical, emotional, semantic, and sensorial bond between people and their environments. Although the effects of single colors have been explored, there has been no research on how paired colors affect warmth perception in interiors. Therefore, the main aim of this study is to investigate these effects of colors and color pairs. Each model was assessed by 32 participants, totaling 96 different participants assessed the color models (Red, White, Green, and their pairs) under controlled conditions, both on a seven-point semantic differential scale and through open-ended questions. The results show that both single colors and paired colors affect warmth perception in interiors. White, Green, and Red are warmer than each other, respectively. Red appears to increase and White appears to decrease the warmth perception of their pairs in interiors. Another important finding of the study is that there is no effect of color location in paired colors.

Effects of Material Pairs on Warmth Perception in Interiors

“…The main aim of these two studies is to investigate how paired colors and paired materials a ect warmth perception separately under the same experimental conditions and with the same methodology [8,14]. As colors and materials are rarely viewed in isolation, researchers chose pairs as stimuli in this study [8,14]. The results of color pairs were presented in the previous report [8].…”

“…Warmth perception was analyzed according to four basic aspects: sensorial, physical, semantic, and emotional aspects [8]. As a multisensory concept [1], its sensorial aspect is based on five senses of human being [14]; however, visual sense dominates warmth perception in interiors [2].…”

“…As a multisensory concept [1], its sensorial aspect is based on five senses of human being [14]; however, visual sense dominates warmth perception in interiors [2]. Physical aspect consists of environments' and/or materials' physical features, which can be measured regardless of individual di erences: thermal properties, surface properties, density, and ambient temperature [8]. Except thermal e usivity, all thermal properties; thermal conductivity, contact surface temperature, heat capacity, and initial material temperature and warmth perception have a positive linear relationship [1][2][3][4].…”

“…The researchers embraced Brunswik's lens model [16], which was applied to environmental perception by Gifford [17]. In the light of this interpretation, actual environment corresponds physical aspects of warmth perception whereas perceived warmth includes semantic and emotional aspects [8]. The semantic aspect of the concept includes both literal and figurative meanings of warmth: actual warmth is literal meaning whereas energy and intimacy associations are figurative warmth which have more influence on the concept [1].…”

“…The concept has been investigated by researchers in di erent disciplines [1][2][3][4][5][6]. In this study warmth perception is defined as ''a physical, emotional, and sensorial bond between people and their environments'' and its three aspects correspond to Desmet and Hekkert's [7] framework for product experience: ''aesthetic experience correspondence physical aspects, experience of meaning correspondence semantic aspects, and emotional experience correspondence emotional aspects'' which was presented in the previous report [8].…”