Perceptions of Colour Pickers in Virtual Reality Art-Making

Virtual reality art is reshaping digital art experiences, especially with the recent release of multiplayer 3D art applications, but may elicit different first impressions across different age groups which can impact their uptake. In particular, popular colour pickers based on HSV colour spaces may appeal differently to younger and older adults. We investigate first impressions of colour selection when shown with a discrete picker or a continuous HSV picker via an online survey with 63 adults and 24 older adults. We found that the discrete picker was seen as having more positive hedonic qualities overall; there were no differences between perceptions of adults and older adults. We discuss the implications of our findings for colour selection tools in virtual reality art-making.