TY - JOUR A1 - Ettwein, Frederike A1 - Rohrer-Vanzo, Valentina A1 - Langthaler, Georg A1 - Werner, Andrea A1 - Stern, Tobias A1 - Moser, Olivia A1 - Leitner, Raimund A1 - Regenfelder, Katja T1 - Consumer’s perception of high gloss furniture: instrumental gloss measurement versus visual gloss evaluation JF - European Journal of Wood and Wood Products N2 - The overall impression of a glossy surface is an important parameter for consumer’s choice of wooden products. A new gloss parameter, called gloss impression, which calculates a reflexion structure image, was developed in order to complement the measurements made by industrial glossmeters, which are highly limited in describing the visual human perception, for example the commonly used gloss value. The objective of this study is to investigate to what extent the new measurement method of surface gloss is applicable to describe human gloss perception, in other words, to validate the new method. In order to analyse the concordance of the new methodology with human perception, 113 naïve observers had to rank the glossiness of eight series of black and white samples. The results were compared to both gloss impression and gloss value. The statistical evaluation by means of Pearson’s chi-squared tests revealed that the new method has an overall better correspondence to human perception than the gloss value. For black samples, it describes human perception significantly better than the gloss value and gives better results than those which would be achieved by guessing. KW - Perception KW - Wood Products Y1 - IS - 75 SP - 1009 EP - 1016 ER -