Knocking on a yellow door: interactions among knocking sounds, colours, and emotions

A. Turato; A. Rodà; S. Canazza; A. Chmiel; M. Murari; E. Schubert; J. D. Zhang

Knocking on a yellow door: interactions among knocking sounds, colours, and emotions

A. Turato, A. Rodà, S. Canazza, A. Chmiel, M. Murari, E. Schubert, J. D. Zhang

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Abstract

Studies on the ability of music to elicit emotions in listeners have a long tradition. Less studied are the relationships between emotions and everyday sounds, such as environmental noises or sounds of human actions. Exceptions are some experiments that have shown walking sounds, in a manner similar to characteristics of music, can be related to emotions. Furthermore, everyday sounds play a particular role in some media, such as video games and movies, where they are associated with visual contents. In this context, we present a study (n=60) to investigate the hypothesis that the association between knocking sounds and emotions change according to the colour of the door. We used videos instead of still images of a hand knocking on doors with different colours. Results show no statistically significant effect of colours on the perception of emotions associated to the knocking sounds. Anyway, some interesting trends can be recognized, e.g., knocking sounds were perceived as happier if the hand knocks on a yellow door.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Forum Acusticum 2023 - 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, EAA 2023
Publisher	European Acoustics Association, EAA
ISBN (Electronic)	9788888942674
Publication status	Published - 2023
Externally published	Yes
Event	10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, EAA 2023 - Torino, Italy Duration: 11 Sept 2023 → 15 Sept 2023

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of Forum Acusticum
ISSN (Print)	2221-3767

Conference

Conference	10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, EAA 2023
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Torino
Period	11/09/23 → 15/09/23

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 First author et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Keywords

crossmodal interaction
emotions
everyday sounds
sound design

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Turato, A, Rodà, A, Canazza, S, Chmiel, A, Murari, M, Schubert, E & Zhang, JD 2023, Knocking on a yellow door: interactions among knocking sounds, colours, and emotions. in Forum Acusticum 2023 - 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, EAA 2023. Proceedings of Forum Acusticum, European Acoustics Association, EAA, 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, EAA 2023, Torino, Italy, 11/09/23.

Knocking on a yellow door: interactions among knocking sounds, colours, and emotions. / Turato, A.; Rodà, A.; Canazza, S. et al.
Forum Acusticum 2023 - 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, EAA 2023. European Acoustics Association, EAA, 2023. (Proceedings of Forum Acusticum).

Research output: Chapter in Book / Conference Paper › Conference Paper › peer-review

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