A Note towards the Understanding of Lighting Quality

Hawkes, R. J.; Loe, David; Rowlands, Eryl Wyn

doi:10.1080/00994480.1979.10748578

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“…In their first paper, Hawkes, Loe and Rowlands reported that perceptions of 18 lighting configurations for a windowless two-person office could be described along two independent dimensions: brightness and interest (non-uniformity). 49 They were unable to obtain an interpretable result in their multidimensional scaling analysis.…”

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Psychological Processes Influencing Lighting Quality

Veitch

2001

Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society

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/npsi/ctrl?lang=en http://nparc.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/npsi/ctrl?lang=fr Access and use of this website and the material on it are subject to the Terms and Conditions set forth at http://nparc.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/npsi/jsp/nparc_cp.jsp?lang=en NRC Publications Archive Archives des publications du CNRCThis publication could be one of several versions: author's original, accepted manuscript or the publisher's version. / La version de cette publication peut être l'une des suivantes : la version prépublication de l'auteur, la version acceptée du manuscrit ou la version de l'éditeur. Society, 30, 1, pp. 124-140, 2001-04-01 Psychological processes influencing lighting quality Veitch, J. A. Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Psychological processes influencing lighting quality Veitch, J.A.A version of this paper is published in / Une version de ce document se trouve dans :Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society, v. 30, no. 1, 2001, pp. 124-140 www.nrc.ca/irc/ircpubs NRCC-42469 AbstractVeitch and Newsham proposed a behaviorally-based model for lighting quality research, in which individually-based processes mediate the relationships between luminous conditions and such behavioral outcomes as task performance, mood, social behavior, aesthetic judgements and satisfaction. This review paper summarizes the state of knowledge concerning mediating psychological processes: perceived control, attention, environmental appraisal, and affect. These processes were selected because of their relevance to the explanations often given for lighting design choices.More explicit use of theoretically-driven predictions to guide lighting research would result in greater precision in our comprehension of lighting-behavior relationships to form the foundation of empirically-based lighting recommended practice.Psychology and Lighting Quality / 2 Introduction Surveys of office employees consistently report that lighting is among the more important features of office design and furnishings.1,2 Likewise, in the professional community of lighting designers and illuminating engineers, there is a long history of speculation that the quality of the luminous environment can influence task performance, comfort, and well-being, 3,4 effects that are fundamentally psychological --that is, behavioral, in nature. This paper reviews the relevant literature concerning such effects, in an attempt to provide direction for lighting recommended practice and to further lighting quality research.Stein, Reynolds, and McGuinness once defined lighting quality as "a term used to describe all of the factors in a lighting installation not directly connected with quantity of illumination." (5, p.887) Their definition, although flexible enough to be applied to a wide variety of lit environments, offers little guidance concerning how to measure the quality of a lit environment. Veitch and Newsham proposed that lighting quality exists when the luminous conditions support the behavioral needs of individuals in the lit space.6 This definition has...

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“…For some writers, this judgment defines lighting quality. 49,60 Affect is the term used by behavioral scientists to describe emotional responses. In a state of positive affect, one feels pleasant, relaxed, and happy.…”

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Psychological Processes Influencing Lighting Quality

Veitch

2001

Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society

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“…4 Several studies are available investigating the way people assess lighting directly. Hawkes et al 5 suggest that people categorise lighting using two dimensions -brightness and interest (or non-uniformity). Flynn et al 6 added a third dimension -overhead versus peripheral lighting distribution.…”

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Lighting in retail environments: Atmosphere perception in the real world

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IJsselsteijn

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Lighting Research & Technology

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Although ambient lighting and atmosphere are intuitively related, there is a paucity of empirical, naturalistic data supporting such a relation. The objective of this study was to investigate the contribution of lighting in evoking an atmosphere in the real world, amongst the extensive set of other cues available there. In a field study involving 57 clothing stores, lighting attributes (e.g. brightness, contrast, glare and sparkle) and context (i.e. the shop's interior) were assessed and quantified independently. These data were then used to predict four dimensions of perceived atmosphere in hierarchical regression analyses. Lighting attributes and interior qualities were both related to perceived atmosphere. This indicated that, even given the substantial contribution of design elements in retail environments, lighting plays a role in evoking atmosphere.

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“…Light also impacts the affective appraisal or perceived atmosphere of a space and has the potential to change the same space from cosy to tense or from lively to detached (Durak et al 2007;Stokkermans et al 2018;Vogels et al 2008). Light affects the appreciation of a space (Flynn et al 1973;Hawkes et al 1979;Houser et al 2002), sometimes even to the point of inducing pleasure and/or arousal in the visitor (Kuijsters et al 2015). At night, light influences perceptions of safety (e.g., Haans and de Kort 2012), as well as perceived restorativeness of and fascination with urban streetscapes (Nikunen and Korpela 2012).…”

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Tutorial: Theoretical Considerations When Planning Research on Human Factors in Lighting

Kort

2019

LEUKOS

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Research on human functioning is notoriously difficult. This particularly holds for the study of light effects, at least if one wants to go beyond establishing that changes in light "have an effect" and understand why this effect occurs-in other words, if one wants to make causal inferences about the mechanism behind it. The latter is, of course, crucial for generalizing insights and being able to use them effectively in other contexts. The culmination of many decades of research has taught us that light affects psychological functioning in numerous ways and through various pathways. This implies that, regardless of the investigator's particular interests in either of those mechanisms, generally all will be at play, simultaneously, for participants in any lighting study. The present tutorial aims to address this complexity and how to deal with it by concisely describing the most important pathways that we currently are aware of. Such awareness is important both in contemplating the design and methodology of a study and in interpreting results from other studies and generalizing them to a particular application or light design. ARTICLE HISTORY

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A Note towards the Understanding of Lighting Quality

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Psychological Processes Influencing Lighting Quality

Psychological Processes Influencing Lighting Quality

Lighting in retail environments: Atmosphere perception in the real world

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