Abstract
When architects design a space and want to provoke reactions of surprise, relaxation, sadness, or excitement in users, how they combine the architectural characteristics of form, materials or light will influence these emotional reactions. The possibility of combining architectural elements is so vast and complex that it requires constant study and testing by the architect to achieve the reaction, sensation, or emotion he is trying to produce. This article results from preambular research that aims to create a methodological working framework that allows the development of a continuous study of the systematic relationship between different architectural features and emotional responses. As a main result, the proposed framework allows for obtaining emotional reactions related to architectural spaces, obtained through biosensors or self-report surveys, which feed the inference engine developed through the Kansei method. It is expected that the compilation of future studies based on this framework can be consulted as a guide or as an inspiration to read the built/designed spaces and/or open new possibilities and perspectives of spaces and architectural forms in the relationship with the human being. In the end, a comic narrative synthesizes the content of this article visually, having Le Corbusier as the main character.
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Formiga, B., Rebelo, F., Cruz Pinto, J., Vasconcelos, A. (2023). Architectural and Emotional Reactions: Proposal of a Framework. In: Duffy, V.G., Krömker, H., A. Streitz, N., Konomi, S. (eds) HCI International 2023 – Late Breaking Papers. HCII 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14057. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48047-8_32
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