Visual aesthetics and human preference

SE Palmer, KB Schloss… - Annual review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Human aesthetic preference in the visual domain is reviewed from definitional,
methodological, empirical, and theoretical perspectives. Aesthetic science is distinguished …

[PDF][PDF] The impact of school environments: A literature review

S Higgins, E Hall, K Wall, P Woolner… - London: Design …, 2005 - academia.edu
'The science of designing learning environments is currently remarkably under-developed',
argued architect and CABE Commissioner Emeritus the late Richard Feilden in 2004. In a …

Color and emotion: effects of hue, saturation, and brightness

L Wilms, D Oberfeld - Psychological research, 2018 - Springer
Previous studies on emotional effects of color often failed to control all the three perceptual
dimensions of color: hue, saturation, and brightness. Here, we presented a three …

An ecological valence theory of human color preference

SE Palmer, KB Schloss - Proceedings of the National …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Color preference is an important aspect of visual experience, but little is known about why
people in general like some colors more than others. Previous research suggested …

[HTML][HTML] Biological components of sex differences in color preference

AC Hurlbert, Y Ling - Current biology, 2007 - cell.com
The long history of color preference studies has been described as" bewildering, confused
and contradictory"[1]. Although recent studies [1–3] tend to agree on a universal preference …

Color compatibility from large datasets

P O'Donovan, A Agarwala, A Hertzmann - ACM SIGGRAPH 2011 papers, 2011 - dl.acm.org
This paper studies color compatibility theories using large datasets, and develops new tools
for choosing colors. There are three parts to this work. First, using on-line datasets, we test …

Aesthetic response to color combinations: preference, harmony, and similarity

KB Schloss, SE Palmer - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2011 - Springer
Previous studies of preference for and harmony of color combinations have produced
confusing results. For example, some claim that harmony increases with hue similarity …

A sound foundation? What we know about the impact of environments on learning and the implications for Building Schools for the Future

P Woolner, E Hall, S Higgins… - Oxford review of …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
This paper reports on a literature review conducted in the UK for the Design Council and
CfBT (Higgins et al.,) which looked at the evidence of the impact of environments on learning …

Linking objective design factors with subjective aesthetics: An experimental study on how structure and color of websites affect the facets of users' visual aesthetic …

M Seckler, K Opwis, AN Tuch - Computers in Human Behavior, 2015 - Elsevier
The present study examines how objective design factors of a website are linked to different
facets of subjective aesthetic perception. Five online experiments based upon the …

Color preferences are not universal.

C Taylor, A Clifford, A Franklin - Journal of Experimental …, 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
Claims of universality pervade color preference research. It has been argued that there are
universal preferences for some colors over others (eg, Eysenck, 1941), universal sex …