Measuring the Emotional and Physiological Effects of Light and Colour on Space Users

Nadeen Abbas, Dinesh Kumar, Neil Mclachlan

2005

Abstract

Colour and light are known to have an impact on our health and well-being. While large resources are allocated for well designed buildings with the right choice of colours and lighting conditions, there is little scientific evidence that supports these choices. The aim of this research was to determine the impact of different colours and lighting conditions on people, using non-invasive means. Close correlations between skin conductance (SC), our emotions and health are well reported in literature and hence these are expected to be good measures of the environmental conditions on people.

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Abbas N., Kumar D. and Mclachlan N. (2005). Measuring the Emotional and Physiological Effects of Light and Colour on Space Users . In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Biosignal Processing and Classification - Volume 1: BPC, (ICINCO 2005) ISBN 972-8865-35-X, pages 78-86. DOI: 10.5220/0001194200780086


in Bibtex Style

@conference{bpc05,
author={Nadeen Abbas and Dinesh Kumar and Neil Mclachlan},
title={Measuring the Emotional and Physiological Effects of Light and Colour on Space Users},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Biosignal Processing and Classification - Volume 1: BPC, (ICINCO 2005)},
year={2005},
pages={78-86},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001194200780086},
isbn={972-8865-35-X},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Biosignal Processing and Classification - Volume 1: BPC, (ICINCO 2005)
TI - Measuring the Emotional and Physiological Effects of Light and Colour on Space Users
SN - 972-8865-35-X
AU - Abbas N.
AU - Kumar D.
AU - Mclachlan N.
PY - 2005
SP - 78
EP - 86
DO - 10.5220/0001194200780086