Fotios, S. and Castleton, H. (2016) Specifying enough light to feel reassured on pedestrian footpaths. Leukos - Journal of Illuminating Engineering Society of North America. ISSN 1550-2724
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.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Steve Fotios and Holly Castleton. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | pedestrians; reassurance; road lighting |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Architecture (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL (EPSRC) EP/H050817/1 ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL (EPSRC) EP/M02900X/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 04 May 2016 10:49 |
Last Modified: | 27 Jul 2016 10:25 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15502724.2016.1169931 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis (Routledge): Library and Information Science |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/15502724.2016.1169931 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:99243 |
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