This study finally aimes at establishing a practical lighting design method based on visual ease, which consists of following three basic studies.
(1) Establishment of index for evaluating the lighting condition based on visual ease of the task, and this index must also be objectively constructed with three main factors in steady visual task condition; background luminance
L, contrast
C and task size α.
(2) Establishment of a simple technical method for the estimation of the index value for a given task under any lighting condition.
(3) Preparation of the basic data for the practical estimation of the index value.
In this paper, the visual ease level (VEL) is proposed as an evaluation index for lighting, and its practical usefulness is fully investigated.
VEL is defined as a ratio of the actual task size α to the threshold task size α
t which corresponds to the combination of the background luminance
L and the contrast
C of a task under an actual lighting condition. Results of experiments in which subjects are asked to evaluate the readability of sentences presented under various lighting conditions with six step evaluations reveales that every step corresponds to almost fixed VEL value respectively in the practical lighting condition, having background luminance 25-1, 000cd/m
2 and task contrast above 0.35. It is confirmed from this result that proposed VEL is a practically useful index to evaluate the lighting condition.
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