Publication: The effects of perceiving color in living environment on QEEG, Oxygen saturation, pulse rate, and emotion regulation in humans
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2014-01-01
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2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2014. (2014), 6226-6229
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Watchara Sroykham, J. Wongsathikun, Y. Wongsawat The effects of perceiving color in living environment on QEEG, Oxygen saturation, pulse rate, and emotion regulation in humans. 2014 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2014. (2014), 6226-6229. doi:10.1109/EMBC.2014.6945051 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/33726
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The effects of perceiving color in living environment on QEEG, Oxygen saturation, pulse rate, and emotion regulation in humans
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© 2014 IEEE. Light and color have been shown to have substantial physical, psychological and sociological effects on humans. Hence, an investigation on the effect of changes in light and color to the biological signals is a challenging problem. Five participants were measured the oxygen saturation (SpO2), pulse rate, and quantitative electroencephalogram (QEEG) in six colors (white, blue, green, yellow, red and black) of living environment for 5 minutes per color. Then all participants were asked to answer the emotional questionnaire of BRUMS and color performance for each color environment. The results showed brain activity of high beta wave (25-30 Hz) that associated with alertness, agitation, mental activity, and general activation of mind and body functions (at frontal lobes and temporal lobes) in red and yellow colored rooms were higher than blue, green, white and black colored rooms, respectively. It also had the relationship with the psychological effect (BRUMS). The amplitude asymmetry of beta wave (12-25 Hz) was highly attenuated in warm color (red and yellow colored rooms), moderately attenuated in cool color (green and blue colored room) and little attenuated in white and black colored rooms. The BRUMS showed that red and yellow yielded significant effect on anger (F=4.966, p=0.002) and confusion (F=3.853, p=0.008). Red and green color yielded high effect on vigor. Green color did not affect the depression. Blue color yielded moderate effect on confusion, tension and fatigue. White and black colors yielded low effect on any mood, but black color had no effect on vigor. In addition, we cannot observe any significant changes of pulse rate and blood oxygen saturation in each color. The results can possibly be used as the recommendation to design the room for either normal people or patients.