Completed PhD Thesis at LIPID
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Mandana Sarey Khanie completed her PhD Thesis focusing on the development of a novel gaze-driven photometry approach for observing natural gaze behavior in relation to light with the conditions implicitly constrained by real world luminous environment.
The developed methodology was used in a series of experiments in a simulated office setting under different lighting conditions where participants’ gaze responses as well as their subjective assessments were recorded while monitoring photometric quantities relevant to visual comfort using high dynamic range luminance imaging. The result showed an attraction/avoidance gaze response in relation to view and extreme lighting conditions. The developed approach demonstrates the need to integrate gaze direction patterns into visual comfort assessments, which moves us beyond the existing assumption of a fixed-gaze direction towards a gaze responsive comfort.
The PhD thesis entitled « Human responsive daylighting in offices: a gaze-driven approach for dynamic discomfort glare assessment », was defended on April 27, 2015 in front of a jury composed of Marilyne Andersen and Jan Wienold (LIPID, thesis supervisors), Christoph Schierz (Technische Universität Ilmenau, external examiner), Martine Knoop (Technische Universität Berlin, external examiner), Sabine Süsstrunk (IVRL, internal examiner), Wolfgang Einhäuser-Treyer (Technische Universität Chemnitz, external examiner).
Accepted without reservation, the thesis was then presented to the public on June 19, 2015.