In non-residential buildings, comfort and energy demand for heating, cooling and lighting are significantly influenced by the façade. Up to now, only non-weighted luminance-based methods for calculating and evaluating annual daylight glare exist (Lee et al., 2005; Mardaljevic and Lomas., 1998). Within this paper, different methods based on the daylight glare probability DGP (Wienold and Christo...

PURPOSE To determine the influence of retinal illuminance on monocular or binocular visual reaction time (VRT). METHODS On two normal subjects, uniform circular stimuli were presented with respect to a reference stimulus at the fovea under suprathreshold conditions, and the detection of positive and negative luminance variations was recorded. Binocular and monocular reaction times were measur...

We have investigated the light intensity distributions of a 7-inch LGP to increase output illuminance uniformity by reducing the bright and dark areas caused by a plurality of LED. We analyzed the effects of the LED–LED gap and LED–LGP space to the light intensity distribution in the LGP inside. We have found that the density function of LGP pattern has a simple exponential terms. We analyzed t...

This work reviews the effect of parametric programming on visual performance, daylighting and shading in office buildings in Tehran-Iran and studies their influences that help not only to reduce the glare but also to promote useful daylight illuminance through promoting visual comfort. It starts by establishing a review of the effective parameters on visual comfort indices, glare indices, and d...