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Proceedings of: Workshop on Improving Building Design for Persons with Low Vision

Evaluations that were conducted under Vijay’s supervision, these driving forces have resulted in less than expected improvements in occupant satisfaction with regard to perceptions of lighting...

Guest Rooms

Lights on timers in bathrooms are not recommended....

Effects of Lighting and Daylighting on Performance

Lighting is one of the biggest problems. Over 20 percent say moderate effect and only 11 percent say it has no effect. So lighting is a very important consideration....

Dennis W. Siemsen, O.D., Low Vision Service, Department of Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic

We fiddle around with the illumination and the contrast by adding direct light....

David L Munson, IALD Aff.

Lighting Design Current Lighting “Rules” focus on Illuminance Issues; conversely, Lighting Design should focus on Luminance and Contrast Issues Now people keep talking about lighting...

Open Discussion (Panel 1)

John Brabyn, Ph.D., Director of Rehabilitation Engineering Research, Center on Low Vision and Blindness (NIDRR), Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute

Building Sight: A handbook of building and interior design solutions to include the needs of visually impaired people....

Pricilla Rogers, Ph.D., Center on Vision Loss, American Foundation for the Blind

ASHRAE 189.1—sustainability code [i.e., standard] for green buildings; provides for 10% less interior lighting wattage than ASHRAE [90.1]....

Robert Dale Lynch, FAIA. Architectural Expert and Consultant

Design Issues: Architectural Context and Considerations Slowness to Adjust to Changes in Lighting Levels (slide 2). Obstruction of View Due to Glare (slide 3)....

Frederick Krimgold, Ph.D., Director, Disaster Risk Management Program, Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute – National Capitol Region

Steps and Stairs (slides 2 – 4) Lighting. Lack of Contrast Distracting Pattern. Wayfinding and Signage (slides 5 - 10) Lighting. Size. Context....

Mary Ann Hay, IALD, LEED AP, Vice President, Director, Architectural Lighting Design, Syska Hennessy Group, Inc.

Glare Sources of Glare (slide 2) Poorly Shielded light sources. Exposed lamps. Light reflecting from highly reflective surfaces. Windows. Skylights....

Jim Woods. Introductory Comments

The next panel is on artificial lighting, which is a term I hate. I don’t think there’s anything artificial about real lighting. It’s just from a different source....

Robert Dupuy, IALD, LC. Problems and Solutions

Historic Basis for Lighting Criteria I think, first off, a little-known fact about the lighting levels that all of us use daily to do our work and that we also find in lighting codes...

David K. Tozer.

And as you can probably tell, one of my specialties and interests is museum lighting, art lighting, and building environments related to art....

Eunice Noell-Waggoner, IES, LC. Lighting Issues

I was doing interior designing and he was the lighting administrator, so I was kind of explaining how we had done it before....

Mary Ann Hay, IALD, LEED™ AP. Artificial Lighting

I use the term artificial lighting, but electric lighting is a very powerful tool and component in our built environment....

Motivational Characteristics

Low Vision Characteristics (slide 4): Need more light. More sensitive to glare. Slower to adapt to different light levels....

Material Characteristics (slide 6)

And that can be columns, and it can even be lighting fixtures....

Signage (slide 11)

Location, location, location, especially in relationship to the light sources. And then reverse contrast is better because you don’t have the glare from the background....

Lighting Applications

We use lighting to tell you how to behave. We use lighting to tell you the sheets in the store are really expensive....

Lighting Performance

And also, as someone talked about earlier, you just have perimeter lighting sort of like this (slide 14), where you have all these [sconce lighting fixtures]....

Advent Reo Interior Wall Sconce