Lighting conditions in home office and occupant's perception: Exploring drivers of satisfaction

作者：Natalia Giraldo Vásquez, Cláudia Naves David Amorim, Barbara Matusiak, Julia Resende Kanno, Natalia Sokół, Justyna Martyniuk-Pęczek, Sergio Sibilio, Michelangelo Scorpio, Yasuko Koga · 发表于：Energy and Buildings · 年份：2022 · DOI：10.1016/j.enbuild.2022.111977 · 被引用次数：28 · 研究领域：Building Energy and Comfort Optimization、Urban Green Space and Health、Educational Environments and Student Outcomes

This paper depicts lighting home office conditions within different countries and continents, emphasizing the user's satisfaction with the visual environment. The scope of this article is to investigate the drivers of participants' satisfaction with the lighting conditions at the home office. The study was developed by a team of international experts working together on Subtask A: User perspective and requirements, Task 61 IEA (International Energy Agency): Solutions for daylighting and electric lighting. An online survey was launched in December 2020 and closed on March 2021. The survey was implemented in the native languages of six participant countries (Brazil, Colombia, Denmark, Italy, Poland, and Japan) using Google Forms, and its dissemination was via various social media platforms. Measures of association between variables and predictive tests were run to explore which investigated aspects drove participants' satisfaction with the lighting conditions at the home office. We found some differences in satisfaction due to participants' sex, occupation, and participants' continent of residence. Females were more satisfied with daylight than males. Associations between the perception of seven light descriptors and satisfaction showed differences between East Asians and the rest of the participants, which might be related to the high dependence of the formers on electric lighting even when daylight is available. Design features as southern facades, the distance from the worki...