Using the points and examples from the lecture, explain what unity and contrast are, and how they make interior design more effective.
1. So we're talking about interior design...uh...specifically the basic principles typically used in home and office decoration in the United States.
2. Effective designs create a delicate balance between two things: you need unity and you also need contrast which is essentially a break in unity.
3. Now this might seem a little contradictory, but let me explain why we need both of these for an effective design.
4. So for the first principle: we need unity in our design.
5. Think of it as consistency.
6. Well, an easy and very effective way to do this is by bringing together similar elements.
7. A common example is by matching colors.
8. You pick a color and use it for different parts of the room.
9. Say you pick green and then use a light shade of green for the walls and maybe a somewhat darker shade for the fabric on the sofa, and finally complement that with a matching green in the rug.
10. When elements match, the room is unified and gives its residents a sense of order and comfort.
11. OK, but there is such a thing as too much unity.
12. Remember you need a balance of unity and contrast.
13. If all you do is focus on unity, the result will be a boring room.
14. So what do you do?
15. Well, you apply the second basic principle of design, which is contrast.
16. Contrast serves to disrupt or break up the unity in places, but in a careful intentional way.
17. Um, well, let's continue using color as an example.
18. To create contrast, color contrast, you need to abruptly change your color scheme in a while.
19. Ah let's see, you could throw white-red cushions on your dark green sofa, for example.
20. Contrast makes things stand out.
21. The green will look even greener next to the red.
22. So, now your room is more interesting, not completely the same.
23. But watch out.
24. Too much contrast is also dangerous, just like too much sameness is.
25. Too much contrast will make the room feel busy, chaotic.
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 615.0 578.828451883 106% => OK
No of words: 161.0 151.265690377 106% => OK
Chars per words: 3.8198757764 3.82278263415 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.56210296601 3.50058242952 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.01820348979 1.80425224433 112% => OK
Unique words: 93.0 92.4686192469 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.577639751553 0.61298525976 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 191.7 182.283891213 105% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20543933054 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0791287330894 0.0839705835288 94% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 4.47071129707 67% => OK
Average paragraph length: 53.6666666667 65.8948926009 81% => OK
STD paragraph length: 28.3352940498 19.7758100068 143% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 19.6966666667 25.5208953607 77% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 9.85296007412 7.49434385956 131% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 42.0 42.9832635983 98% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.83333333333 3.78147595546 101% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.81083504511 2.94285465224 96% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.27571428571 1.39386743896 92% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.785490877329 0.967747756167 81% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 47.0 40.4456066946 116% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 10.32 7.59280334728 136% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.219574468085 0.19053887516 115% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.20662389974 0.157467062838 131% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 42.83 46.3453556485 92% => OK
Average word duration: 0.26602484472 0.308780311121 86% => OK
STD word duration: 0.161354051135 0.201157623399 80% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 7.0 8.09623430962 86% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.94 6.56692468619 75% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 3.78 3.53066945607 107% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.09 59.5455230126 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.984833333333 0.992425383543 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.795396852259 0.681803438845 117% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.72465730242 2.53813033465 107% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.57387036724 1.55221717717 101% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.1713752043 1.99939622689 109% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.21186857764 0.309613076454 68% => It may have issues on recording quality or you may have pronounciation issues.
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.