Impact of Correlated Color Temperature on Visitors' Perception and Preference in Virtual Reality Museum Exhibitions

Na Yu; Yue Lv; Xiaorong Liu; Shuai Jiang; Huixuan Xie; Xiaofan Zhang; Ke Xu

doi:10.3390/ijerph20042811

Impact of Correlated Color Temperature on Visitors' Perception and Preference in Virtual Reality Museum Exhibitions

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Feb 5;20(4):2811. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20042811.

Authors

Na Yu^{1

2}, Yue Lv¹, Xiaorong Liu³, Shuai Jiang³, Huixuan Xie³, Xiaofan Zhang⁴, Ke Xu¹

Affiliations

¹ College of Furnishing and Lndustrial Design, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China.
² Co-Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China.
³ College of Art and Design, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China.
⁴ Exhibition Department, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing 210095, China.

Abstract

From the perspective of psychophysiological evaluation, this paper provides a theoretical reference for the lighting settings of museums. In order to study the impact of correlated color temperature (CCT) on visitors' perception and preference in museum exhibitions, an experiment was conducted in the ergonomics laboratory of Nanjing Forestry University. We invited 50 participants to visit the virtual reality museum exhibitions with different CCTs, built by Autodesk 3D's Max 2017. Specific psychophysiology variables-eye movement, electrodermal activity (EDA), and heart rate variability (HRV)-and the perception and preference of participants were collected. The results indicated that the association of CCT with eye movement, HRV, and some perceptual dimensions was significant. Under high illumination conditions with different CCTs, the pupil diameter and warmth decreased with the increase in CCT, but the comfort and pleasure scores increased first and then decreased. The CCT scenes sorted by LF/HF ratio from high to low were 4500 K, 6000 K, and 3000 K, which was consistent with the results of preference ranking. The LF/HF ratio showed significant sex differences and major discrepancies.

Keywords: correlated color temperature; museum exhibition; perception; preference; psychophysiology variables; sex and major discrepancies.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Female
Humans
Lighting
Male
Museums*
Perception
Temperature
Virtual Reality*

Grants and funding

This paper represents the final findings from the project “Research on museum exhibition design based on multimodal sensory experience,” financed by Cultural Relics Research Project of Jiangsu Province (project number 2019SK06), and supported by the Humanities and Social Science Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China (grant number 17YJCZH231), “Research on robot social behavior design based on auditory mechanism and emotion,” provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Science Fund Project (project number 52105262), “Research on the training mode of CMF innovative design talents for household products,” provided by the Collaborative Education Project of Industry–University Cooperation of the Ministry of Education (grant number 202102298004), Nanjing Forestry University Youth Science and Technology Innovation Project (project number CX2016015), and the “Smart home design theory and implementation path under the concept of ecological health care,” (project number 163104069) of Nanjing Forestry University.