EVALUATION INDEX FOR THE VISUAL APPEARANCE AND THE TACTILE TEXTURE (PO41, Pages 401-407)

Visual appearance of building finishing materials is one of the most important factors for the total impression of a room. It is evaluated through the sense of vision, touch, smell and hearing. Among them, it is considered that the sense of vision contributes largely to the visual impression of a room. This study is aimed to be a foundation for a suggestion of the evaluation index of visual appearance. Two experiments and 4 measurements were held to clarify the evaluation index for the visual appearance and the tactile texture. As a result, five evaluation index were extracted, gloss, roughness, warmth, softness and dryness.