Students’ colour perception and preference: an empirical analysis of its relationship

In a learning environment, colour is believed to be able to cause positive or negative behaviour such as avoidance or withdrawal behaviour; affecting performance and stimulate senses. It is learned that visual stimulation contributes to an improvement of attention span, develops cognitive abilities...

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Main Authors: Ab Jalil, Nurlelawati, Mohd Yunus, Rodzyah, Sheikh Said, Normahdiah
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spelling iium-670932019-04-09T07:09:34Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/67093/ Students’ colour perception and preference: an empirical analysis of its relationship Ab Jalil, Nurlelawati Mohd Yunus, Rodzyah Sheikh Said, Normahdiah LB1050.9 Educational psychology LB2300 Higher Education NA2000 Study and teaching. Research NA6600 Education buildings NK1700 Interior decoration. House decoration In a learning environment, colour is believed to be able to cause positive or negative behaviour such as avoidance or withdrawal behaviour; affecting performance and stimulate senses. It is learned that visual stimulation contributes to an improvement of attention span, develops cognitive abilities and refresh one’s perception towards his environment but varied due to differences of gender and background. This paper focuses on perception and preferences of colours for hostel room as a learning environment amongst undergraduate students at Universiti Teknologi MARA and Universiti Putra Malaysia. It aims to verify the previous findings concerning preference differences among gender in a population and extends the method using a visible colour survey. 798 students who are also the hostel residents aged between 19 to 27 years old took part in this random survey. The survey recorded patterns of students’ colour preferences and recommendation colour for their hostel rooms. The preference survey includes 11 colours (red, blue, green, pink, purple, brown, orange, yellow, white, black and grey) together with the colour description in value and saturation level with five-point Likert scales. Furthermore, the respondents were asked to indicate 12 emotional responses and nominated their preferred colour directly using visible colour survey method from a three dimensional unit of Munsell Colour Tree. The analysis reveals various patterns of colour preferences when the colour options are visible between genders which significantly influence their preference behaviour. The outcomes become the turning point to investigate the effects of colour on students’ alertness during learning activity based on subjects’ preferences and existing colour theory. Elsevier B.V. 2013 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/67093/1/67093_Students%E2%80%99%20Colour%20Perception%20and%20Preference.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/67093/2/67093_Students%E2%80%99%20Colour%20Perception%20and%20Preference_WOS.pdf Ab Jalil, Nurlelawati and Mohd Yunus, Rodzyah and Sheikh Said, Normahdiah (2013) Students’ colour perception and preference: an empirical analysis of its relationship. In: 6th International Conference on Learning and Teaching (InCULT2012), 20th-21st Nov. 2012, Shah Alam, Malaysia. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042813020168
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topic LB1050.9 Educational psychology
LB2300 Higher Education
NA2000 Study and teaching. Research
NA6600 Education buildings
NK1700 Interior decoration. House decoration
spellingShingle LB1050.9 Educational psychology
LB2300 Higher Education
NA2000 Study and teaching. Research
NA6600 Education buildings
NK1700 Interior decoration. House decoration
Ab Jalil, Nurlelawati
Mohd Yunus, Rodzyah
Sheikh Said, Normahdiah
Students’ colour perception and preference: an empirical analysis of its relationship
description In a learning environment, colour is believed to be able to cause positive or negative behaviour such as avoidance or withdrawal behaviour; affecting performance and stimulate senses. It is learned that visual stimulation contributes to an improvement of attention span, develops cognitive abilities and refresh one’s perception towards his environment but varied due to differences of gender and background. This paper focuses on perception and preferences of colours for hostel room as a learning environment amongst undergraduate students at Universiti Teknologi MARA and Universiti Putra Malaysia. It aims to verify the previous findings concerning preference differences among gender in a population and extends the method using a visible colour survey. 798 students who are also the hostel residents aged between 19 to 27 years old took part in this random survey. The survey recorded patterns of students’ colour preferences and recommendation colour for their hostel rooms. The preference survey includes 11 colours (red, blue, green, pink, purple, brown, orange, yellow, white, black and grey) together with the colour description in value and saturation level with five-point Likert scales. Furthermore, the respondents were asked to indicate 12 emotional responses and nominated their preferred colour directly using visible colour survey method from a three dimensional unit of Munsell Colour Tree. The analysis reveals various patterns of colour preferences when the colour options are visible between genders which significantly influence their preference behaviour. The outcomes become the turning point to investigate the effects of colour on students’ alertness during learning activity based on subjects’ preferences and existing colour theory.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Ab Jalil, Nurlelawati
Mohd Yunus, Rodzyah
Sheikh Said, Normahdiah
author_facet Ab Jalil, Nurlelawati
Mohd Yunus, Rodzyah
Sheikh Said, Normahdiah
author_sort Ab Jalil, Nurlelawati
title Students’ colour perception and preference: an empirical analysis of its relationship
title_short Students’ colour perception and preference: an empirical analysis of its relationship
title_full Students’ colour perception and preference: an empirical analysis of its relationship
title_fullStr Students’ colour perception and preference: an empirical analysis of its relationship
title_full_unstemmed Students’ colour perception and preference: an empirical analysis of its relationship
title_sort students’ colour perception and preference: an empirical analysis of its relationship
publisher Elsevier B.V.
publishDate 2013
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/67093/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/67093/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/67093/1/67093_Students%E2%80%99%20Colour%20Perception%20and%20Preference.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/67093/2/67093_Students%E2%80%99%20Colour%20Perception%20and%20Preference_WOS.pdf
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