Journal
SENSORS
Volume 21, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/s21020406
Keywords
sensor hub; reading in children; developmental differences; background colors; overlay colors
Funding
- Slovenian Research Agency [P2-0098]
- AD Futura Found (Public Scholarship, Development, Disability and Maintenance Found of the Republic of Slovenia)
- IPS Jozef Stefan
- Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia
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This study examined the impact of different colors on the reading process of school-age children and found that there were differences in reading duration, EEG power bands, and eye-tracking measures among children of different ages. The study also indicated that 12 background and overlay colors influenced heart rate variability.
This study investigated the influence of white vs. 12 background and overlay colors on the reading process in twenty-four school-age children. Previous research reported that colors could affect reading skills as an important factor in the emotional and physiological state of the body. The aim of the study was to assess developmental differences between second and third grade students of an elementary school, and to evaluate differences in electroencephalography (EEG), ocular, electrodermal activities (EDA) and heart rate variability (HRV). Our findings showed a decreasing trend with age regarding EEG power bands (Alpha, Beta, Delta, Theta) and lower scores of reading duration and eye-tracking measures in younger children compared to older children. As shown in the results, HRV parameters showed higher scores in 12 background and overlay colors among second than third grade students, which is linearly correlated to the level of stress and is readable from EDA measures as well. Our study showed the calming effect on second graders of turquoise and blue background colors. Considering other colors separately for each parameter, we assumed that there are no systematic differences in reading duration, EEG power band, eye-tracking and EDA measures.
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