Kristen Dixon City High Graduation Project: Well... It could be worse...

Monday, November 10, 2008

Well... It could be worse...

I at least know that I have enough sources... I just have to summarize them, and figure out a few things I might have missed. Now I am still un-focused, but to the point where I want to blankly stare at my computer rather than type and rant in circles until I can get myself back on track...

Basically.... I have flown myself waaaay off track...

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Essential Question: Does color effect emotion

Foundation Questions

· Why?

· What colors cause what emotions?

· What affects this?

· Does it affect learning?

· Does ones background affect this?

· Is this used in designing schools or houses?

· Is gender a factor?

· Does color and emotion also have an effect in clothing?

· What other scenarios are there where the color of something effects ones emotions?

· How can this information be used to improve schools or homes containing depressed people?

Key Terms

Brightness- Attribute of a visual sensation according to which an area appears to exhibit more or less light.
Chroma- The colourfulness of an area judged in proportion to the brightness of a similarly illuminated area that appears to be white or highly transmitting (i.e. reference white).
Colourfulness- Attribute of a visual sensation according to which an area appears to exhibit more or less of its hue.
Hue- Attribute of a visual sensation according to which an area appears to be similar to one, or to proportions of two, of the perceived colours, red, yellow, green and blue.
Lightness- The brightness of an area judged relative to the brightness of a similarly illuminated area that appears to be white or highly transmitting (i.e. reference white).
Saturation- Colourfulness of an area judged in proportion to its brightness.