A qualitative and quantitative study of color emotion using valence-arousal

作     者：Shangfei WANG Rui DING 

作者机构：Key Lab of Computing and Communicating Software of Anhui ProvinceSchool of Computer Science and TechnologyUniversity of Science and Technology of ChinaHefei 230027China 

出 版 物：《Frontiers of Computer Science》 (中国计算机科学前沿（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2012年第6卷第4期

页      面：469-476页

核心收录：

学科分类：0821[工学-纺织科学与工程] 02[经济学] 0202[经济学-应用经济学] 020208[经济学-统计学] 07[理学] 08[工学] 0714[理学-统计学（可授理学、经济学学位）] 070103[理学-概率论与数理统计] 0701[理学-数学] 082103[工学-纺织化学与染整工程] 

基　　金：国家教育部留学回国人员科研启动基金 国家自然科学基金 supported by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) 

主　　题：color emotion valence and arousal qualitative quantitative 

摘      要：This paper describes qualitative and quantita- tive analysis of color emotion dimension expression using a standard device-independent colorimetric system. To collect color emotion data, 20 subjects are required to report their emotion responses, using a valence-arousal emotion model, to 52 color samples that are chosen from CIELAB Lch color spaces. Qualitative analysis, including analysis of variance （ANOVA）, Pearson＇s correlation and Spearman＇s rank cor- relation, shows that significant differences exist between re- sponses to achromatic and chromatic stimuli, but there are no significant differences between chromatic samples. There is a positive linear relationship between lightness/chroma and valence-arousal dimensions. Subsequently, several clas- sic predictors are used to quantitatively predict emotion in- duced by color attributes. Furthermore, several explicit color emotion models are developed by using multiple linear re- gression with stepwise and pace regression. Experimental results show that chroma and lightness have stronger effects on emotions than hue, which is consistent with our qualitative results and other psychological studies. Arousal has greater predictive value than valence.