What happens to color emotion responses when texture is
added to color samples? To quantify this we performed an
experiment in which subjects ordered samples (displayed on a
computer monitor) along four scales: Warm-Cool, Masculine-
Feminine, Hard-Soft and Heavy-Light. Three sample types
were used: uniform color, grayscale textures and color
textures. Ten subjects arranged 315 samples (105 per sample
type) along each of the four scales. After one week, they
repeated the full experiment. The effect of adding texture to
color samples is that color remains dominant for the Warm-
Cool, Heavy-Light and Masculine-Feminine scale (in order of
descending dominance), the importance of texture increases in
that same order. The Hard-Soft scale is fully dominated by
texture. The average intra-observer variability (between the
first and second measurement) was 0.73, 0.66 and 0.65 for the
uniform color, grayscale texture and color texture samples,
respectively. The average inter-observer variability (between
an observer and the other observers) was 0.68, 0.77 and 0.65,
respectively. Using some 25,000 observer responses, we
derived analytical functions for each sample type and emotion
scale (except for the Warm-Cool scale on grayscale textures).
These functions predict the group-averaged scale responses
from the samples’ color and texture parameters. For uniform
color samples, the accuracy of our functions is significantly
higher (average adjusted R2 = 0.88) than that of functions
previously reported. For color texture, the average adjusted
R2=0.80.
@InProceedings{LucassenECCGIV2010,
author = "Lucassen, M. and Gevers, T. and Gijsenij, A.",
title = "Adding Texture to Color: Quantitative Analysis of Color Emotions",
booktitle = "European Conference on Color in Graphics, Imaging and Vision",
year = "2010",
url = "https://ivi.fnwi.uva.nl/isis/publications/2010/LucassenECCGIV2010",
pdf = "https://ivi.fnwi.uva.nl/isis/publications/2010/LucassenECCGIV2010/LucassenECCGIV2010.pdf"
}