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 Vital Signs Project: Daylighting in Three Libraries

 

(Overview) (Method) (Survey) (Mt. Airy) (Michigan) (Exeter) (Syllabus)

Sample Survey

LIBRARY USER'S LIGHTING QUALITY SURVEY

This survey is part of a national educational research project to determine occupancy satisfaction with natural and electric lighting conditions in library reading rooms areas.

Building:

Date of survey:

Time of survey:

Outside Sky Conditions circle one: sunny partly cloudy cloudy

Lighting Source(s) at My Desk circle one: daylighting electric lighting both

Please take a moment to answer each of the following questions. Thank you.

circle one: YES NO
A Overall the lighting is comfortable Y N
B The lighting is uncomfortably bright for the tasks that I perform Y N
C The lighting is uncomfortably dim for the tasks that I perform Y N
D The lighting is poorly distributed here Y N
E The lighting causes deep shadows Y N
F Reflections from windows/skylights hinder my work Y N
G Direct glare from unprotected windows/skylights hinders my work Y N
H Brightness from direct sunlight hinders my work Y N
I The electric lights flicker throughout the day Y N
J How does the lighting
compare to workplaces
in other buildings?		 circle one: worse about the same better
K Please complete the visability/reading test below and return this completed
questionnaire to the monitor and/or to the maindesk.


Thank you.

Visual Comfort

Please hold this page as if it were a memo that you were about to read. Starting at the top, read down until you no longer read a full sentence. You may use reading glasses if you need them, but please do not hold this page any closer to your face than you would while reading a normal document. Please check the box to the left of the first sentence that you cannot read in full.



Please mark your approximate location within the library on the plan below:

Survey developed by:
Prof. Donald Watson
School of Architecture
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, New York 12180

Comments to author: vitalsigns@
ced.berkeley.edu

All contents copyright (C) 1998. Vital Signs Project. All rights reserved.

Created: 05/13/97
Revised: 09/09/02

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