Geng, Le, Guo, and Yin investigated design elements in comfortable hotel lobbies using digital 3-dimensional models of lobby spaces and data collected from a Chinese sample. They found that “the illuminance of the lamp, the color of the wall, and the decoration style have a significant impact on visual comfort. The music genre would not affect consumer’s visual comfort perception of lamp illuminance, wall color and decoration style. Normal illuminance brings the most comfort, followed by bright illuminance, and then dim illuminance; Warm color brings more comfort than cool color; and Chinese style lobby brings more comfort than European style.”
Ziwen Geng, Wei Le, Benhai Guo, and Hongjuan Yin. 2023. “Analysis of Factors Affecting Visual Comfort in Hotel Lobby.” PLoS ONE, vol. 18, no. 1, e0280398, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280398