Dissertation in the field of illumination engineering, Mikko Hyvärinen
The title of thesis is Methodological questions in lightning acceptance and preference studies
Map © OpenStreetMap. Some rights reserved.
Investigating subjective aspects of lighting, such as preference and acceptance, involves evaluations and ratings by human subjects. The data from the subjects is gathered with questionnaire techniques. This work reviews the literature published on lighting field on methodology for subjective lighting studies. The review continues to questionnaire research in general, and discusses several factors which may influence the results or the quality of the data, such as the form of response options, labelling the response alternatives, the number of response option categories, whether or not there should be an option for a neutral answer.
Opponent: Professor Markku Turunen, University of Tampere, Finland
Supervisor: Professor Liisa Halonen, Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation
Electronic dissertation thesis (aaltolib.aalto.fi)
More information:
Mikko Hyvärinen
tel. +358 50 364 5319
mikko.hyvarinen@aalto.fi