Specifying enough light to feel reassured on pedestrian footpaths

FOTIOS, Steve and CASTLETON, Holly (2016). Specifying enough light to feel reassured on pedestrian footpaths. Leukos: The Journal of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, 12 (4), 235-243.

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Abstract

This article discusses lighting for pedestrians and how investigation of reassurance might lead toward an understanding of the right amount of light. A conventional approach is to evaluate reassurance after dark under road lighting of different illuminance: this tends to show the trivial result that higher illuminances enhance reassurance, and that alone does not enable an optimum light level to be identified. One reason is that the category rating procedure widely used is prone to stimulus range bias; experimental results are presented that demonstrate stimulus range bias in reassurance evaluations. This article also recommends alternative methods for future research. One such method is the day–dark rating approach, which does not tend toward ever higher illuminances, and results are presented of two studies using this method.

Item Type:	Article
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018:	Materials and Engineering Research Institute > Engineering Research
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1080/15502724.2016.1169931
Page Range:	235-243
Depositing User:	Holly Castleton
Date Deposited:	20 Jul 2016 15:24
Last Modified:	18 Mar 2021 00:31
URI:	https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/12564

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