Light and Emotions

2020

Studies show that visual comfort which is caused by visual environment effect people’s well-being and productivity. To evoke the people sense of visual comfort indicatively and aesthetically, color plays a greater role in comparison to other parameters in the environment. Among many other atmospheric factors such as music, scent, crowding etc., lighting is one of the major atmospheric factors in the environmental stimuli that impacts people’s biological, psychological, emotional, and aesthetic aspects. Literature shows that lighting affects a person’s emotional state, provides spatial clarity and promotes productivity, arouse individuals, and influence task performance, human comfort, and sense of well-being.

Researches reveal that colors are associated with specific emotions such as red for rage, and blue for depression. In order to know how users’ emotion, physiological response, satisfaction, and task performance change in response to different colors, we studied a lot of lights and patterns in order to examine the effect of light in the moods. We experimented with some adaptive color changing light modules that change the atmospheric condition of the space based on the emotions in real-time.

Year: 2020  

Type: Interactive Installation  

Team: Mona Ghandi, Mohamed Ismail, Marcus Blaisdell, Aisha Marcos 

Photo Credits: Mohamed Ismail, Mona Ghandi