Abstract
The aim of this paper is to consider where lighting research is today and what its future might be. There is little doubt that, today, lighting research is an active field. A brief review of the topics being studied reveals that they range from residual studies on visibility and visual discomfort, through attempts to identify the influence of lighting on factors beyond visibility such as mood and behaviour, to the whole new field of light and health. But activity alone is not enough to justify a future. For lighting research to have a future it is necessary for it to be influential. To become influential, research needs to focus its attention on outcomes that matter to people and the elements of those outcomes on which lighting is known to have a major influence. Further, researchers will have to be determined to overcome the barriers to changing lighting practice. By doing this, lighting research may change the world for the better, to be an important topic, not an irrelevance.
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Boyce, Peter Robert
(2018)
"The Present and Future of Lighting Research,"
SDAR* Journal of Sustainable Design & Applied Research:
Vol. 6:
Iss.
1, Article 2.
doi:https://doi.org/10.21427/D7853J
Available at:
https://arrow.tudublin.ie/sdar/vol6/iss1/2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21427/D7853J