Title: Criteria influencing the choice of luminaires in office lighting

Authors: A.K. Kronqvist

Addresses: Department of Lighting Science, Jönköping University, P.O. Box 1026, 551 11 Jönköping, Sweden; Department of Architecture, Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden

Abstract: This study is the first to evaluate the different criteria presently used in Sweden for lighting design, and their importance when planning the visual environment. It considers the role of the Swedish lighting designer and the different evaluations of criteria in the office lighting design process. The study aims to investigate whether a designer with an academic education or longer experience would infer more value in perceptual criteria and incorporate research into designs to a larger extent than a designer with less education. The findings suggest that current research needs to be more readily available to practitioners to enhance differentiation of criteria and proposed lighting designs. Education and experience could not be proven to make a difference, but different gender brought with it a divergence in the evaluations.

Keywords: design criteria; bias; office lighting; luminaires; visual environment; perceptual criteria; evaluations; design process; Sweden; lighting design; education; experience; gender.

DOI: 10.1504/JDR.2012.051170

Journal of Design Research, 2012 Vol.10 No.4, pp.269 - 292

Received: 23 Feb 2012
Accepted: 24 Jul 2012
Published online: 30 Aug 2014 *

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