Light & Engineering 28 (4)

Volume 28
Date of publication 08/15/2020
Pages 111–122

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Gender Difference in Colour Preference of Lighting: A Pilot Study. L&E 28 (4) 2020

Articles authors:

Zheng Huang, Qiang Liu, Ying Liu, Michael R. Pointer, Peter Bodrogi, Tran Quoc Khanh, Anqing Liu

Zheng Huang, M.Eng. He graduated from Wuhan University, China. At present, he is the master student of Graphic Communication Engineering at School of Printing and Packaging, Wuhan University. He used to be the Research Assistant in the Department of Building Services Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has authored more than 20 journal articles and conference papers. His scientific interests are lighting engineering, colorimetry, and colour science

Qiang Liu received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Wuhan university in 2013 (Wuhan, Hubei, China). He is an Associate Professor with the School of Printing and Packaging of Wuhan University and serves as a technical committee member of CIE Division 1. His research interests include colour, lighting and vision. He has over 60 publications and 20 patents in the areas of colour imaging and LED lighting

Ying Liu, B.S. She has studied at School of Printing and Packaging, Wuhan University, since 2016. Her scientific interests are colour quality of light sources, focusing on colour preference and colour discrimination. She has published 6 paper in journals and conferences

Michael R. Pointer received his Ph.D. from Imperial College, London in 1972. He then worked in the Research Division of Kodak Limited for 28 years and is now a Visiting Professor at the University of Leeds and Technical Advisor to the Colour Engineering Laboratory at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. He is the co‑author, with Robert W G Hunt, of Measuring Colour, now in its 4th Edition

Peter Bodrogi, Dr. He is Optoelectronic Engineer at ERCO GmbH, Lüdenscheid, Germany. He studied physics at the Lorand Eotvos University in Budapest, Hungary. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Information Technology from the University of Pannonia (Veszprém, Hungary). He obtained his Lecture Qualification Thesis (habilitation) in Lighting Engineering from the Technische Universität Darmstadt (Darmstadt, Germany). His interests concern lighting engineering, colorimetry, colour science, modern software technologies and LED lighting systems

Tran Quoc Khanh, Dr., Prof. He is studied from 1980 to 1985 Machine Engineering and Technical Optics before he finished his Ph.D. thesis on the Spectroscopy of UV‑VIS Radiation Sources in 1989. Between 1990–1997 and 1997–1999, he was laboratory leader and project manager for photometry, radiometry and colorimetry at PRC Krochmann and Gigahertz Optik. Between 2000 and 2006, he was technical manager for optical imaging systems at ARRI, developed a digital CMOS camera, a film scanner and a laser recorder and optimized colour image processing for cinematography and TV signal processing. In 2005, he completed his Lecture Qualified Thesis (habilitation) on colour appearance and visual performance and started his current work as a Professor for Lighting Technology and Solid‑State Lighting at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. He is conducting research and development projects on LED lighting technology. He is also the Chairman of the International Symposium for Automotive Lighting (ISAL). He is author of several books and scientific articles and inventor of patents on lighting technology and related subjects. He is currently Dean of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the Technische Universität Darmstadt

Anqing Liu, Dr. He is a researcher at Chromatech Lighting Limited, Shenzhen, China. He finished his Ph.D. in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, United States. He worked as a research assistant in Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center in United States. After his Ph.D. study, he was a research scientist in Philips Lighting Research North America, Cambridge, United States. He serves as a technical committee member of CIE Division 1. His interest concern colour and imaging, human centric lighting and applied optics

Abstract:

Gender difference has been widely reported in many research fields. However, in the topic of colour preference of lighting, such an issue has not aroused much attention. In this study, therefore, three groups of visual experiments with different illuminance (E) levels (50 lx, 200 lx, 600 lx) were conducted which investigated the preferred correlated colour temperature (CCT: 3500 K, 5000 K, 6500 K) for six single-coloured decorative artificial bird-shaped objects (red, green, yellow, blue, white and black). Twenty subjects, ten males and ten females, were invited to respond with their visual colour preference of the experimental objects. The aim of this work was to investigate if gender difference exists when the observers judge objects with different colours under different E-CCT conditions. The results indicate that there is significant difference between males and females for the 200 lx and 600 lx conditions, especially for the cases with higher CCTs (5000 K and 6500 K). In addition, it was found that under certain E-CCT conditions the preference ratings of males and females for certain colours were obviously different. Similarly, for some scenarios the subjective ratings from observers of the same gender also varied with object colour.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.33383/2019-100Vol

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