Human Factors in Lighting FROM THE PUBLISHER
This book is a comprehensive review of the interaction of people and lighting. It speaks of the importance to understand the forms of lighting available, and their appropriateness to specific activities, in order to apply the technology most effectively. The significance of specialist lighting applications, such as photobiology, is also discussed.
SYNOPSIS
Designers, engineers, and others concerned with lighting and its effects on people will welcome this new, completely revised edition of Boyce's 1981 work. The fundamentals of light, vision, and the circadian system are covered in three chapters before the subject of lighting is broached. Subsequent chapters describe the science of lighting and the workplace, lighting and visual discomfort, and lighting and the perception of spaces and things. More specific settings receive individual chapters, including lighting for offices, industry, driving, the elderly, escape lighting, lighting and crime, light and health, and code. Boyce, long at the Electricity Council Research Centre in England is now at the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, NY. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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