Investigating Occupant’s Visual Comfort and Preferences Towards Sunlight Patterns in Daylit Offices

In addition to influencing occupant’s visual comfort, recent studies found that sunlight can expedite recovery for depressed patients, boost the body’s vitamin D supply, and regulate melatonin production. On the other hand, in psychological studies, fractal patterns were found to be more visually interesting than other types of patterns. However, no studies have investigated visual interest of spatially projected fractal patterns in space.

Belal Abboushi used the grant to support an on-going field study in San Francisco over summer and fall terms of 2017. Particularly, the grant would help defray cost of equipment and travel to and from this location.