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New media and lighting technology and new ways to connect and control it have the potential to improve the environment in hospitals with the goal of increasing patient satisfaction. How should such system be designed to do so and how can it be tested? In this paper it is investigated how a specific case, an interactive lighting and media system installed in a patient room, can be improved to support a greater experience of patient satisfaction. Through questionnaires given to 14 mothers who have just given birth and their husbands staying in an interactive patient room, the experience of staying in the room and the patient satisfaction have been assessed. The results from the questionnaires are hereto combined to data log on how the media system has been used, which additionally leads to a design evaluation for the interactive media system. The results imply several areas which can be improved to meet the specific needs of the patients and thereby provide higher patient satisfaction. Hereto, the main findings suggest that the control of the lighting needs to be less complicated, the different lighting settings needs to be better tailored to the actual needs, noise from the projector and light coming from the iPad needs to be reduced, and for critical situations, the medical equipment needs to be an exact copy of what the caregivers are used to.

In order to create awareness of different qualities of light in indoor living spaces, two different lighting cultures are being investigated; Northern and Southern European. We therefore investigate the relation between natural and artificial light, based on geographical position as well as social/cultural habits of different countries. The aim is that this approach will inform the user on how different lighting scenarios can improve the use of the space. The investigations are based on end user’s preferences and illustrate how awareness of different lighting cultures can be used in different lighting design scenarios. The findings from this specific project are meant to support the development of scenarios for future lighting fixtures and control systems based on a deeper understanding of cultural and geographical parameters.

The FIRM project aims to develop innovative mooring systems for floating wind farms based on fibre ropes, including new and more efficient methods for installation, condition monitoring, maintenance, and decommissioning. The project shall deliver designs for three different mooring systems. This document describes the contents of work package H7 in the FIRM project

In order to create awareness of different qualities of light in indoor living spaces, two different lighting cultures are being investigated; Northern and Southern European. We therefore investigate the relation between natural and artificial light, based on geographical position as well as social/cultural habits of different countries. The aim is that this approach will inform the user on how different lighting scenarios can improve the use of the space. The investigations are based on end user’s preferences and illustrate how awareness of different lighting cultures can be used in different lighting design scenarios. The findings from this specific project are meant to support the development of scenarios for future lighting fixtures and control systems based on a deeper understanding of cultural and geographical parameters.

This design-based research study presents results based on observations and analysis of student–student and student–teacher interactions in a Norwegian upper secondary school. The aim of this study was to examine student interactions during collaborative mathematical reasoning tasks about functions to identify insights to support collaborative problem-solving competency. The study also sought to investigate teacher actions in productive interactions and how students’ potential learning outcomes are affected by interactions. Analysis of student–student interactions and related teacher interactions revealed strategies for facilitating productive problem solving among student dyads. The productive interaction pattern—a bi-directional interaction—presents inherent learning opportunities. This study adds to the field of mathematics education by suggesting an extension of the concept of collaborative problem-solving competency (CPS) by connecting the competencies of collaboration, reasoning, and problem solving in a new model for facilitating productive interaction in mathematics classrooms. The suggested competency model has potential as an analytical tool for teacher educators and researchers to utilize in classroom studies focusing on interactional patterns in students’ mathematical problem solving. Denne design-baserte forskningsstudien presenterer resultater basert på observasjoner og analyser av elev–elev og elev–lærer interaksjoner fra en norsk videregående skole. Målet med denne studien var å undersøke elevinteraksjoner når de samarbeidet og resonnerte matematisk om funksjoner for å identifisere og gi innsikt omkring samarbeidskompetanse i problemløsing. Forskningsprosjektet undersøkte lærerhandlinger tilknyttet elevinteraksjoner og hvordan elevenes potensielle læringsutbytte påvirkes av interaksjonen. Analyse av elev–elev interaksjoner og relaterte lærerinteraksjoner avdekket strategier for å legge til rette for produktiv problemløsing blant elevparene. Det produktive interaksjonsmønsteret—en toveisinteraksjon—gir iboende læringsmuligheter. Dette forskningsprosjektet bidrar til matematikkdidaktikkfeltet ved å foreslå en utvidelse av konseptet «problemløsing ved samarbeid» gjennom å koble kompetansene samarbeid, resonnement og problemløsing til en ny modell for produktive interaksjoner i matematikklasserommet. Den foreslåtte kompetansemodellen har et potensial som et analytisk verktøy for lærerutdannere og forskere i klasseromsstudier med fokus på interaksjonsmønstre i elevenes matematiske problemløsing.

This paper explores how lighting and darkness influence human experiences of architectural and social public urban contexts in dark hours. Tram stations in Aarhus, Denmark, are used as cases to investigate how brightness levels influence human sensory experience of the local space, the surroundings, co-presence with other people, and the activities performed in a specific context. Furthermore, this paper describes a transdisciplinary process, where methods from natural science, social science and arts/humanities are combined in three pre-analyses and a main field experiment. Lighting is often related to safety while darkness is related to fear. However, the findings from the main field experiment of this project indicate that lower and balanced brightness levels can sharpen our senses and create a relaxed atmosphere. Additionally, lower brightness levels enrich perceptions of and connections with spatial and social surroundings, thereby increasing perceived safety. We argue for context specific field experiments based on pre-analyses and the use of a transdisciplinary process, for drawing nearer to people's immediate senses when exploring experiences of urban lighting. The ultimate goal of the studies is to inspire to solutions that exploit the architectural and social potential of lighting by lowering and balancing brightness levels, all while reducing energy use and light pollution.

Outdoor lighting has mainly been approached as an engineering subject throughout its history. The current urban lighting requirements are established upon factors which mainly refer to motorised traffic dynamics. As a consequence, excessive lighting levels are found in the city environments with a negative impact on the human as well as the environmental sphere. By synthesising scientific knowledge on human visual system and outdoor lighting theories, this research seeks to formulate strong arguments to point at the lack of human scale in the contemporary practice and to question the adequacy of the standard requirements for human vision in nighttime settings. The knowledge gained from scientific studies and ongoing research shows how the nighttime visual experience of pedestrians is still an untapped dimension, unveiling the lack of defined guidelines and methods to approach the design of urban lighting through the lens of this target. With a focus on soft mobility, the aim of the study is to address dark adaptation as a human factor in the design of urban lighting and to provide evidence on the human eye's ability to perform in dim conditions. Important findings from the literature review were used as requirements to formulate a methodology to approach the design of pedestrian lighting in urban environments. Strong conclusions could be drawn on the figure of dark adaptation and important lighting requirements were identified to facilitate this process in the condition of soft mobility. Even though further research and experimentation are required to implement dark adaptation in the design of urban lighting, this paper's goal is to open up new perspectives in the field, shaping the vision for the future of cities with reduced urban illumination.

This article presents the results of an experiment exploring how four chosen light spectra illuminating a space in different colours affect observed body movements and reported sensory experiences. In addition, the experiment explores if these effects are apparent only when the light is perceived by the eye. In our light lab, 26 participants were immersed in white, blue, amber and red illumination and asked to move around while blindfolded and non-blindfolded. The movements of the participants were observed and video-recorded, and information on sensory experiences and spatial perceptions were retrieved by interviews. Thematic analysis shows patterns of how participants experienced feeling: “sharp and clear” in a “dead” space while moving in a hard manner (white), “calm and introverted” in a “cold” space while moving in a coherent manner (blue), “happy and content” in a “supportive” space while moving in a soft manner (amber) and “grounded” in a “dense” space while moving in a downwards manner (red) – both while blindfolded and non-blindfolded. Statistical analyses show that the participants moved in significantly different manners and reported significantly different sensory experiences within the four lighting scenarios. Moreover, statistical analyses generally showed no significant differences between the two conditions of blindfolding and non-blindfolding.