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. 2022 Apr 11:13:805796.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.805796. eCollection 2022.

Evaluation of Daylight Perception Assessment Methods

Gizem Izmir Tunahan  1 , Hector Altamirano  1 , Jemima Unwin Teji  1 , Cosmin Ticleanu  1   2
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Evaluation of Daylight Perception Assessment Methods

Gizem Izmir Tunahan et al. Front Psychol. .

Abstract

Daylight is an important component in maintaining human health and wellbeing and plays a key role in physiological, psychological, and behavioural regulation. Understanding the complexity of daylight perception is vital since the degree of satisfaction with daylight conditions could greatly impact individual mood, behaviour and cognitive performance. This paper aims at (1) presenting an overview of current knowledge on methods for assessing daylight perception and (2) establishing a methodology for assessing daylight perception in the context of cultural background. An experiment was conducted with 50 students who were instructed to select the best and worst seats, describe the best desks' daylight conditions and draw boundary lines between perceived daylit and non-daylit spaces in a library. The study showed that subjective rating and seat preference methods were consistent with actual daylight levels. However, participants' boundary lines did not represent the actual daylight availability in the space. The study suggests that individual daylight perception in the context of cultural background can be assessed using the subjective rating and seat preference methods.

Keywords: daylight availability; daylight perception; environmental behaviour; method evaluation; seat preference, drawing.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Figure 1
Plan of the Bartlett Library (The red arrows represent the locations from where the photos on the right side of the figure were taken).
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Figure 2
The question regarding subjective ratings.
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Figure 3
A few examples of participants’ drawings in response to the question asking them to draw a boundary line between daylit and non-daylit spaces.
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Figure 4
Best and worst seat selected by participants against daylight availability.
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Figure 5
Daylight boundary line drawings of the participants (left), Comparison of drawings with daylight availability (right).
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Figure 6
Comparison of the overall daylight perception with percentage of the area enclosed with the contour line of DA300lx,50%.
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