The Relationship between Aesthetic Factors and Aesthetic Responses in Indoor Environments: Using Living Room as an Example

• Main Authors: Hsiao-Ping Chang, 張曉平
• Other Authors: Hsiu-Tuan Chuang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/p8emxu

碩士 === 中原大學 === 室內設計研究所 === 92 === Environmental aesthetics represents the merging of two areas: empirical aesthetics and environmental psychology. Both areas use scientific methodologies to help explain the relationship between physical stimuli and human’s aesthetic response. With knowledge of the relationship between properties of the physical environment and human affect, design professionals can better plan and design, and may contribute to enhancing the quality of life. Although the study of environmental aesthetics has been very popular and has many valuable results in some other countries today, it is still at the beginning stage in Taiwan, especially in the interior design field. Therefore this study is trying to do the preliminary research of the indoor environmental aesthetics. Using living room as an example, 148 people answered the questionnaire by viewing 33 photos online. The questionnaire contains 10 aesthetic factors, which are proportion and scale, shape, complexity, order, color, spaciousness, material, illumination, novelty, and style, and 4 aesthetic responses, which are pleasure, arousal, dominance, and the affective appraisal. The study results are as below: · Gender, age, and education background would be apparently diverse in aesthetic responses because of the different aesthetic factors in the living room photos. · People would have apparent correlation in the degree of pleasure, arousal and dominance, and affective appraisal between living room photos, which contain different aesthetic factors. · The degree of pleasure, arousal and dominance, and affective appraisal effected by the aesthetic factors in indoor environments are positively related to each other. · 11 living room types among 33 testing photos can be found by doing the principal component analysis. The type with the highest affective appraisal would be the living room with nature view. The type with the lowest affective appraisal would be the living room with strong colors and curve and round shapes. · This study found that spaciousness, illumination and style would be the main aesthetic factors to influence people’s affective appraisal if they like an indoor environment. On the other hand, shape and color would be the main aesthetic factors to influence people’s affective appraisal if they dislike an indoor environment.