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2018 , Vol. 7 >Issue 4: 600 - 609

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foar.2018.07.002

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Emotional evaluation of lighting in university classrooms: A preliminary study

  • Nuria Castilla , 1 ,
  • Carmen Llinares 2 ,
  • Fabio Bisegna 3 ,
  • Vicente Blanca-Giménez 1
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  • 1. Dpto. Construcciones Arquitectónicas, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera, s/n, Valencia 46022, Spain
  • 2. Instituto de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería, i3B, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera,s/n, Valencia 46022, Spain
  • 3. Dept. of Astronautical, Electrical and Energetic Engineering (DIAEE), SAPIENZA University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, Rome 00184, Italy

Received date: 24 Jul 2017

Revised date: 03 Jul 2018

Accepted date: 15 Jul 2018

Published date: 02 Jan 2019

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2018 2018 Higher Education Press Limited Company. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi. This is an open access article under the CCBY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Abstract

In educational environments an improvement in the quality of interior lighting has a direct benefit in increasing productivity and alertness of students and teachers, as well as very important implications for the energy efficiency of th eeducation facilities but when a replacement with different lighting is analyzed, research may be tarnished by users’ preformed opinions, influenced by manufacturers and advertising. Consequently, it is necessary to understand the users’ point of view, even before of being subjected to any change in the lighting stimulus.

Based on the Kansei Engineering framework, the general objective of this paper is to evaluate and compare the subjective evaluation of students’ pre-formed opinions to lighting provided by two types of lamps (fluorescentandLED). The subjective assessment of 427 university students has been compared over four years. The results show significant differences in students’ subjective evaluation. This finding highlights the existence of symbolic or functional attributes of the usefulness perceived by the student that could influence on investigations in which different types of lighting are compared.

Key words： Kansei engineering; Lighting; Fluorescent; LED; Subjective assess-ment; University classroom

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Nuria Castilla , Carmen Llinares , Fabio Bisegna , Vicente Blanca-Giménez . Emotional evaluation of lighting in university classrooms: A preliminary study[J]. Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2018 , 7(4) : 600 -609 . DOI: 10.1016/j.foar.2018.07.002

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