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11 Citations
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Emotional Landscapes in Urban Design: Analyzing Color Emotional Responses of the Elderly to Community Outdoor Spaces in Yi Jie Qu

  • Chengyan Zhang,
  • Youjia Chen,
  • Bart Julien Dewancker,
  • Chaojie Shentu,
  • Hao Tian,
  • Yutong Liu,
  • Jiangjun Wan,
  • Xinyue Zhang and
  • Jinghui Li

Addressing the emotional needs of the elderly in urban space design has increasingly become a vital concern. This study innovatively integrates emotional theories with the design of community outdoor spaces, thereby expanding the research on emotiona...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,183 Views
20 Pages

Emotional State as a Key Driver of Public Preferences for Flower Color

  • Juan She,
  • Renwu Wu,
  • Bingling Pi,
  • Jie Huang and
  • Zhiyi Bao

Flowers, as integral elements of urban landscapes, are critical not only for aesthetic purposes but also for fostering human–nature interactions in green spaces. However, research on flower color preferences has largely been descriptive, and th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,004 Views
19 Pages

11 December 2020

Since rice is often cooked in many countries with different types of ingredients or seasonings, the surface colors of traditional rice meal items vary across cultural backgrounds. This study aimed to determine whether consumer perception, acceptance,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,701 Views
25 Pages

A VR Experimental Study on the Influence of Chinese Hotel Interior Color Design on Customers’ Emotional Experience

  • Jian Xu,
  • Muchun Li,
  • Kaizhong Cao,
  • Fangqi Zhou,
  • Boyi Lv,
  • Ziqi Lu,
  • Zihan Cui and
  • Kailiang Zhang

As an important part of a hotel’s internal environment, color design affects not only customers’ hotel stay experiences, but also their check-in experiences. However, how hotel guests’ emotional experiences are affected by interior...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,043 Views
23 Pages

Color blindness can create challenges in recognizing visual cues, potentially affecting players’ performance, emotional involvement, and overall gaming experience. This study examines the impact of color blindness on player engagement and emoti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,844 Views
16 Pages

25 September 2024

The emotional health benefits of urban green space have been widely recognized. Flower borders, as a perennial plant landscape, have gradually become a current form of plant application in urban green spaces due to their rich color configurations. Ho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,887 Views
16 Pages

11 October 2022

Color is a complex communicative element. At the level of artistic creation, this component influences both formal aspects and symbolic weight, directly affecting the construction of the message, and its associated emotion. During the COVID-19 pandem...

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  • Open Access
115 Views
21 Pages

27 November 2025

Amid evolving consumer demands, product design increasingly emphasizes the deeper needs for emotional resonance and cultural identity. Taking Liao–Jin dynasty silk as a case study, this study explores a digital regeneration pathway for traditio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,326 Views
16 Pages

25 November 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted human psychological and emotional states, influencing behaviors, including color preferences. This study aimed to explore how the pandemic affected people’s color preferences and emotional respon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,032 Views
18 Pages

Color is one of the essential visual aesthetic design elements for shopping mall building facades, dramatically influencing customers’ aesthetic perceptions, emotions, and behavioral responses. This study explains the relationship between shopp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,533 Views
17 Pages

18 June 2019

Studying consumers’ implicit emotions has been always described as a difficult and a complicated mission due to the emotions being of a non-cognitive nature. This research aims to develop a new method based on emotion-color association (ECA) to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,807 Views
25 Pages

3 December 2021

Simulations of urban transformations are an effective tool for engaging citizens and enhancing their understanding of urban design outcomes. Citizens’ involvement can positively contribute to foster resilience for mitigating the impact of clima...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,902 Views
20 Pages

26 February 2022

This study proposes a new museum archiving system that uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology. It suggests a new retrieval interface to extract emotional characteristics of the design work to enrich the archiving database. A virtual curation wa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
9,767 Views
20 Pages

20 October 2024

Although it has been shown that color can influence mental health and behavior, few studies have discussed the effects of cool and warm colors in classrooms on the perceived emotions of elementary school students. In this study, we investigated the e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,533 Views
22 Pages

14 October 2025

As the influence of indoor environments on human emotional regulation and cognitive function becomes increasingly critical in modern society, there is a growing need for intelligent lighting systems that dynamically respond to users’ emotional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,082 Views
23 Pages

30 September 2024

To address the challenge of quantitatively assessing the mentalization of emotions in color design schemes, this study uses Baidu Street View images and deep learning, integrates multi-source data, and innovatively constructs a color data model based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
7,483 Views
24 Pages

The Influence of Light and Color in Digital Paintings of Environmental Issues on Emotions and Cognitions

  • Witthaya Hosap,
  • Chaowanan Khundam,
  • Patibut Preeyawongsakul,
  • Varunyu Vorachart and
  • Frédéric Noël

This study aimed to examine the use of light and color in digital paintings and their effect on audiences’ perceptions of environmental issues. Five digital paintings depicting environmental issues have been designed. Digital painting technique...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,116 Views
25 Pages

8 October 2025

The influence of lighting color on food is a multidimensional process, linking visual interventions with people’s perception of food appearance, physiological responses, and psychological associations. This study, as a preliminary exploratory r...

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
27,458 Views
21 Pages

A Scoping Review of Colorism in Schools: Academic, Social, and Emotional Experiences of Students of Color

  • Jandel Crutchfield,
  • Latocia Keyes,
  • Maya Williams and
  • Danielle R. Eugene

5 January 2022

Students of color experience academic, social, and emotional challenges due to colorism in schools. The purpose of this scoping review is to compare the experiences with colorism of students from varying racial backgrounds (African Americans, Native...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
17,373 Views
30 Pages

7 October 2023

In architectural spaces, the ambiance created by lighting plays a significant role in influencing people’s emotions, often relying on the use of color and light. However, previous research has primarily focused on urban architectural spaces, wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
924 Views
23 Pages

Feature Analysis of Facial Color Information During Emotional Arousal in Japanese Older Adults Playing eSports

  • Ryota Kikuchi,
  • Hikaru Shirai,
  • Chikako Ishizawa,
  • Kenji Suehiro,
  • Nobuaki Takahashi,
  • Hiroki Saito,
  • Takuya Kobayashi,
  • Hisami Satake,
  • Naoko Sato and
  • Yoichi Kageyama

13 September 2025

Rapid digitalization has resulted in an increase in the number of older adults playing electronic sports (eSports). Therefore, it must be investigated whether eSports have a positive effect on cognitive function in older adults. We explored the trait...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
13,452 Views
27 Pages

5 July 2017

This study, based on human emotions and visual impression, develops a novel framework of classification and indexing for wallpaper and textiles. This method allows users to obtain a number of similar images that can be corresponded to a specific emot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,909 Views
21 Pages

13 October 2022

A color transfer algorithm between images based on two-stage convolutional neural network (CNN) is proposed. The first stage network is based on VGG19 architecture as the backbone. The reference image-based color transfer (RICT) model was used to ext...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,456 Views
30 Pages

Urban Color Perception and Sentiment Analysis Based on Deep Learning and Street View Big Data

  • Mingyang Yu,
  • Xiangyu Zheng,
  • Pinrui Qin,
  • Weikang Cui and
  • Qingrui Ji

18 October 2024

The acceleration of urbanization has resulted in a heightened awareness of the impacts of urban environments on residents’ emotional states. This present study focuses on the Lixia District of Jinan City. By using urban street view big data and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,667 Views
13 Pages

Emotional Reactions to Different Indoor Solutions: The Role of Age

  • Mariachiara Rapuano,
  • Maria Sarno,
  • Francesco Ruotolo,
  • Gennaro Ruggiero,
  • Sabrina Iuliano,
  • Massimiliano Masullo,
  • Luigi Maffei,
  • Federico Cioffi and
  • Tina Iachini

Longer life expectancy and global population growth result in new environmental demands to meet different material and psychological needs across the lifespan. Since the physical environment is a fundamental factor in the quality of life, here we inv...

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  • Open Access
72 Views
36 Pages

Spatial Optimization of Primary School Campuses from the Perspective of Children’s Emotional Behavior: A Deep Learning and Machine Learning Approach

  • Ruiying Zhang,
  • Binghuan Li,
  • Qian Huang,
  • Zhimou Peng,
  • Yixun Xu,
  • Li Tang,
  • Zhiyue Ouyang,
  • Xinyue Zhang and
  • Lan Shang

26 November 2025

From the perspective of children’s emotional behavior, this study constructs a multidimensional indicator framework—“spatial elements-spatial typologies-spatial color-emotion and behavior.” Integrating behavior mapping, we emp...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,044 Views
20 Pages

2 April 2025

Daily actions are influenced by sensory information. Several studies have investigated the multisensory integration of multiple sensory modalities, known as crossmodal perception. Recently, visual–olfactory crossmodal perception has been studie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,376 Views
20 Pages

With increasing time spent indoors during the coronavirus disease pandemic, occupants are increasingly affected by indoor space environmental factors. Environmental color stimulates human vision and affects stress levels. This study investigated how...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,076 Views
14 Pages

18 April 2025

This study used an online survey to investigate the effects of brightness in low-saturation color ranges on anger processing. Specifically, it explored how background hues—red, yellow-green, and blue-green—affect perceptions of illustrati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,401 Views
13 Pages

In this paper, we propose a method for extracting emotional factors through audiovisual quantitative feature analysis from images of the surrounding environment. Nine features were extracted such as time complexity, spatial complexity (horizontal and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,200 Views
12 Pages

Light-Dependent Effects of Prefrontal rTMS on Emotional Working Memory

  • Anne Weigand,
  • Lisa Edelkraut,
  • Markus Conrad,
  • Simone Grimm and
  • Malek Bajbouj

Growing evidence suggests that colored light exposure can affect several brain functions in addition to conscious visual perception. Blue as compared to green light has especially been shown to enhance alertness and vigilance, as well as cognitive fu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,514 Views
22 Pages

23 January 2021

This study aimed to examine the emotional responses evoked by cooked colored rice and its health functionality information in both consumers who eat rice as a staple food and consumers who do not eat rice as a staple food. Specifically, Korean and Am...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,735 Views
20 Pages

Human Color Perception: The Impact of Color Perception on Fine-Grained Emotion Prediction in Movie and Television Videos

  • Shuang Wang,
  • Jinyu Liu,
  • Yiming Feng,
  • Xiaomeng Ren,
  • Huibo Hu,
  • Mengfei Zhang and
  • Zhibin Su

4 December 2024

This article investigates the impact of visual color perception on fine-grained emotion prediction in videos, analyzing the contribution of color perception features in fine-grained emotion prediction. A total of 20 subjects were involved in this exp...

  • Review
  • Open Access
169 Citations
25,207 Views
19 Pages

Monoamine Neurotransmitters Control Basic Emotions and Affect Major Depressive Disorders

  • Yao Jiang,
  • Di Zou,
  • Yumeng Li,
  • Simeng Gu,
  • Jie Dong,
  • Xianjun Ma,
  • Shijun Xu,
  • Fushun Wang and
  • Jason H. Huang

28 September 2022

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common and complex mental disorder, that adversely impacts an individual’s quality of life, but its diagnosis and treatment are not accurately executed and a symptom-based approach is utilized in most cases,...

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  • Open Access
850 Views
23 Pages

The Influence of Food Colors on Emotional Perception and Consumer Acceptance: A Sensory and Emotional Profiling Approach in Gastronomy

  • Jarbas Silva,
  • Francisca Elisângela Lima,
  • Clarisse Souza,
  • Bruno Moreira-Leite and
  • Paulo Sousa

7 November 2025

Food color is a powerful determinant of consumer perception, influencing emotions, taste expectations, and hedonic responses. This study investigated how red, yellow, and blue plating colors affect emotional responses, acceptance, and taste associati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,480 Views
17 Pages

Impacts of Landscape Types and Flower Colors on the Emotional Perceptions of Military Service Members

  • Alicia Thomas,
  • Muntazar Monsur,
  • Carol S. Lindquist,
  • Thayne Montague and
  • Catherine R. Simpson

6 December 2024

Due to the unique mental and physical health challenges military service members (MSVMs) often face as a result of their service, MSVMs are a key demographic of interest. Interaction with natural environments may play a positive role in MSVMs’...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,202 Views
24 Pages

17 July 2025

This study investigates how lighting conditions influence emotional and neural responses in a standardized, simulated museum environment. A multimodal evaluation framework combining subjective and objective measures was used. Thirty-two international...

  • Article
  • Open Access
93 Views
18 Pages

The Influence of Campus Landscape Color Environment on Students’ Emotions: A Case Study of Shandong Agricultural University

  • Yingjie Li,
  • Ying Yu,
  • Dingmeng Hu,
  • Xinyue Shang,
  • Tianyu Wang,
  • Keran Liu,
  • Siwei Mou and
  • Xinwen Zhang

26 November 2025

As the daily activity space for students, the external campus environment directly impacts their physical and mental health. While previous studies have demonstrated the restorative effects of outdoor environments on emotional recovery and stress rel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,230 Views
17 Pages

18 November 2024

Currently, sports venues are endowed with the important functions of providing sports venues and facilities to the urban public, watching sports events, publicizing the mass sports culture, etc. An in-depth study of how to enhance the attractiveness...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,060 Views
17 Pages

The selection of floors and furniture in offices can impact the interior environment and potentially influence employees’ emotions and health. This study aims to investigate the effects of floor material, furniture color, and age on design eval...

  • Article
  • Open Access
470 Views
18 Pages

Beetroot Powder as Natural Colorant in Fresh Pork Sausages: Impacts on Consumer Liking, Emotional Responses, and Identification of Purchasing Drivers

  • Rafaela Willig,
  • Karla Joseane Perez,
  • Lilian Raquel Hickert,
  • Elson Rogerio Tavares Filho,
  • Adriano Gomes da Cruz and
  • Voltaire Sant’Anna

30 October 2025

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of different concentrations of beetroot powder in nitrite-reduced fresh sausages on consumers’ (n = 91) liking, purchase intention, and emotional responses. BP was incorporated into fresh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,664 Views
24 Pages

10 January 2020

Emotions represent a major driver behind a consumption behavior. It may provide more important information beyond consumers’ preferences. This study contributes to a better understanding of the discrepancy in emotion attitudes towards organic v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,114 Views
17 Pages

Interactive Holographic Display System Based on Emotional Adaptability and CCNN-PCG

  • Yu Zhao,
  • Zhong Xu,
  • Ting-Yu Zhang,
  • Meng Xie,
  • Bing Han and
  • Ye Liu

Against the backdrop of the rapid advancement of intelligent speech interaction and holographic display technologies, this paper introduces an interactive holographic display system. This paper applies 2D-to-3D technology to acquisition work and uses...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
11,164 Views
13 Pages

The vegetation landscape in urban green space has been shown to provide great psychological benefits to people. Flower border is a well-designed small-scale vegetation landscape with the advantages of color and vegetation richness. This study focused...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,878 Views
31 Pages

Aging, Emotion, Attention, and Binding in the Taboo Stroop Task: Data and Theories

  • Donald G. MacKay,
  • Laura W. Johnson,
  • Elizabeth R. Graham and
  • Deborah M. Burke

How does aging impact relations between emotion, memory, and attention? To address this question, young and older adults named the font colors of taboo and neutral words, some of which recurred in the same font color or screen location throughout two...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,235 Views
22 Pages

Classifying Emotions in Film Music—A Deep Learning Approach

  • Tomasz Ciborowski,
  • Szymon Reginis,
  • Dawid Weber,
  • Adam Kurowski and
  • Bozena Kostek

27 November 2021

The paper presents an application for automatically classifying emotions in film music. A model of emotions is proposed, which is also associated with colors. The model created has nine emotional states, to which colors are assigned according to the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
6,956 Views
16 Pages

Effects of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Visual Cues on Consumer Emotion and Purchase Intent: A Case of Ready-to-Eat Salad

  • Pitchayapat Chonpracha,
  • Ryan Ardoin,
  • Yupeng Gao,
  • Pamarin Waimaleongora-ek,
  • Georgianna Tuuri and
  • Witoon Prinyawiwatkul

31 March 2020

With increasing demand for ready-to-eat (RTE) fresh vegetables, it is important to understand how visual information cues, both intrinsic and extrinsic, affect consumer perception of these products. This study developed an emotional and wellness lexi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
901 Views
17 Pages

25 March 2025

This work investigates the relationship between the material properties of wardrobe furniture and visual and tactile emotional responses, with a focus on age-related differences in emotional experiences. This research measured material surface proper...

  • Review
  • Open Access
54 Citations
13,275 Views
19 Pages

A Review on the Role of Color and Light in Affective Computing

  • Marina V. Sokolova and
  • Antonio Fernández-Caballero

5 August 2015

Light and color are ubiquitous environmental factors which have an influence on the human being. Hence, light and color issues have to be considered especially significant in human-computer interaction (HCI) and fundamental in affective computing. Af...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,042 Views
25 Pages

Research on Street Color Environment Perception Based on CEP-KASS Framework

  • Kuntao Hu,
  • Ziqi Xu,
  • Xiufang Wang,
  • Yingyu Wang,
  • Haoran Li and
  • Yibing Zhang

20 October 2023

The color of urban streets plays a crucial role in shaping a city’s image, enhancing street appeal, and optimizing the experience of citizens. Nevertheless, the relationship between street color environment and residents’ perceptions has...

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