Mobility Award November 2011 honorable mention

Mandana Sarey Khanie's project description:

Integration of eye-tracking methods in visual comfort assessments

"In this work the fields of architecture, building technology and psychophysics come together in search for objective relationships between perceived comfort, occupant response patterns and lighting conditions in office spaces. The methodological novelty in this study relies on experiments in which the eye movements of human participants are measured in a parameterized office-like environment. Optimizing performance aspects of the building such as energy and daylighting while maintaining human’s comfort and well-being through parametric design strategies is a way to insure reliable and sustainable architecture."