Views provided by windows are key factors that affect occupants' overall psychological and
physiological comfort inside buildings. Despite their importance, there are no established …

Because well-being is becoming a major challenge in construction alongside energy
efficiency, there is an increasing need to be able to quantify discomfort in buildings. In the …

With the developments in virtual reality technologies, significant researches have been
conducted for human response on indoor luminous environment using head-mounted …

Green-building certification systems aim at improving the design and operation of buildings.
However, few detailed studies have investigated whether a green rating leads to higher …

Window views are an important design feature in buildings. Views can impact the cognitive
attention, psychological and physiological well-being of building occupants due to their …

This paper provides new insights on daylight glare evaluation for cases with the sun in the
field of view through window shades. 41 human subjects (n= 41) were tested while …

Light has been shown to have a non-visual impact on the biological aspects of human
health, particularly on circadian rhythms. Building windows are a potential means of …

Exposure to daylight significantly affects the psychological well-being of occupants by
diminishing headaches, eye tensions, or stress. Daylight penetration is a matter of …

The mechanism behind the discomfort glare phenomenon, the kind of glare provoking an
irritating or distracting effect, is not well understood. Since some of the factors influencing …

A previous series of experiments conducted by the authors under a controlled laboratory
setting detected substantive evidence of an effect of time of day, and the influence of various …