Analysis of factors affecting visual comfort in hotel lobby

PLoS One. 2023 Jan 19;18(1):e0280398. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0280398. eCollection 2023.

Abstract

From the perspective of emotion, utilizing eye tracking technology, this paper proposes 12 different 3D hotel lobby models to investigate how would the light illuminance, wall color, decoration style and music genre affect the visual comfort specifically. The experiment results show that the illuminance of the lamp, the color of the wall, and the decoration style have a significant impact on visual comfort. The music genre would not affect consumer's visual comfort perception of lamp illuminance, wall color and decoration style. Normal illuminance brings the most comfort, followed by bright illuminance, and then dim illuminance; Warm color brings more comfort than cool color; and Chinese style lobby brings more comfort than European style.

MeSH terms

  • Cognition
  • Cold Temperature
  • Emotions
  • Light
  • Vision, Ocular*
  • Visual Perception*

Grants and funding

The authors received no specific funding for this work.