Wood Furniture in Offices
Wood color, amount, and in-use effects
Wood color, amount, and in-use effects
Extraversion, introversion, and chroma
Huang, Han, and Ma investigated user preferences for the design of spaces beside commercial pedestrian streets in China. They report that “(a) When arcade spaces were available, people prefer streets with taller trees and a lower planting density (50 plants/km or less). Conversely, they preferred streets with relatively low trees (3–6 m), a higher planting density (100–200 plants/km) and two or more vertical layers of plants. . . .
Farzanfar and Walther, in a comprehensive open access article, probe visuals that humans respond most positively toward. They share that “the human visual system uses structural regularities in contour—lines that mark the outline of various shapes in a scene—to help us process information efficiently. . . . we found that aesthetic judgments of natural scenes were lower when line drawings of scenes were evaluated compared with when their photographs were evaluated.
Real world test, passed
Di Dio and associates studied human responses to abstract art created by a robot. They report that participants in their study “were asked to give beauty (BJ) and liking (LJ) judgments. . . . Aesthetic judgments were made in a blind-baseline condition, devoid of authorship information, and a primed condition, where authorship information (human or robot) was provided. . . .
Vessel and team found that we prefer art that somehow seems relevant to our lives. They learned that “an artwork’s aesthetic appeal depends strongly on self-relevance. . . . [adults] rated aesthetic appeal for . . . artworks was positively predicted by rated self-relevance. . . self-relevance is a key determinant of aesthetic appeal, independent of artistic skill and image features. . . . self-relevance [relates to] the extent to which something relates to a person’s self-schema: their self-perception, past experiences, and personal and social identity. . .
Zelazny, Liu, and Sorensen probed preferences for shape-color combinations.
Wang, Bylinskii, Hertzmann, and Pepperell studied responses to visually ambiguous art.
Naturalness prevails, again