HOW LIGHT AFFECT THE SENSATION OF ANONYMITY
This thesis is to find the relationship within the illuminance, luminance contrast and perception. The goal is to provide a new restaurant lighting criterion for the lighting design field.
Project Presentation
Lighting changes the feeling of anonymity, and it is essential to have visual cues for the dining experience. However, there is a potential to quantify the feeling of anonymity under a scale of low illuminance level and a scale of luminance contrast. This research/thesis aims to determine the answers to: how does the low brightness impact the perception, and do the scales of luminance contrast ratio affect the feeling of anonymity?
final presentation 05041.pdfProject Compendium
The study consists of a case study of the selected restaurants in New York City, and a simulation experiment has done via an online survey. For the case study, nine selected restaurants in New York City are documented with the illuminance, luminance contrast, lighting layout, and color temperature. The goal of the case study is to find the metrics and the default setting for the simulation. For the simulation experiment, the participants were asked to look at a simulated restaurant environment under 12 different lighting scenes in randomized orders with the vertical surfaces and horizontal surfaces illuminated at different intensities. The participants were to rate the subjective impression of the scenes. This is to look at whether the luminance contrast ratio between vertical surfaces and between horizontal surfaces has an impact on how people feel about privacy and the public in a room.
LTD_Kuo.pdfTzu-Hao Kuo
Tzu-Hao Kuo is a Lighting Designer with a Bachelor of Architecture. His experience in architecture and passion in exploring new technology brought Tzu-Hao a diverse perspective of design thinking in the lighting field.
