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Designed artefacts positively or negatively affect people’s feelings. Some recent research has used objective evaluation to explore their feelings by determining their physiological activities. For instance, it is well known that skin conductance responses are elicited by fear-relevant stimuli such as pictures of snakes and spiders. However, it is not clear what might have happened when it comes to moderate and calm stimuli such as dot patterns. The aim of this study was to determine the characteristics of autonomic activities which reflect people’s feelings when they evaluated dot patterns compositions. Thus, we asked participants to evaluate each dot pattern stimulus by using seven-point-scale and recorded their skin conductance and heart rate. In conclusion, we found out that skin conductance has a weak negative correlation with the evaluation of pattern which means it is not good. In contrast, heart rate during the evaluation remain unchanged regardless of the rating scores. These results suggested skin conductance could reflect minor changes in feelings, but heart rate was not affected by them. It indicates that the sympathetic nervous system tends to activate when they negatively evaluate dot patterns. These presented results which supports the previous studies and could be useful in investigating human’s feelings towards moderate and calm design artefacts or artworks.
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Okumura, E., Shutoh, F., Yamanaka, T. (2018). Investigation of Physiological Measurements During Evaluation of Pattern Goodness. In: Lokman, A., Yamanaka, T., Lévy, P., Chen, K., Koyama, S. (eds) Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research 2018. KEER 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 739. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8612-0_41
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