Emotional and Physical Impact of Lighting Quality Parameters and Characteristics on Humans in Different Visual Environments

Abstract

The publication presents the results of the analysis of the issues related to lighting quality parameters and characteristics, its impact on human productivity, activities, safety, well-being, comfort, perception, behaviour and health in different visual environments (office, home, educational, industrial working place, urban environments). Studies show that lighting, its planning and qualitative settings, is a significant indoor environmental quality, energy efficiency and sustainability parameter, and plays an important role in the urban environment.