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FOREWORD
The two volumes of the present CIE Report No. 19/2 represent a
complete replacement for CIE Report No. 19 which was presented to
the CIE by the committee during the 1971 Congress in Barcelona and
subsequently published by the CIE in 1972. The "unified framework
of methods for evaluating visual performance aspects of lighting"
described in Report No. 19 is now to be replaced by the fully
quantitative "analytic model for describing the influence of
lighting parameters upon visual performance" described in the two
volumes of Report No. 192. The considerable expansion of coverage
of visual performance aspects of lighting to be found in the
present two volumes was made possible by meetings of the committee
in Berne, Edinburgh, Florence, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Munich ,
Karlsruhe , and Paris between 1971 and 1978.
The two volumes of Report No. 19/2 contribute to the work of the
CIE by providing potential bases for (a) determining selective
standards of task illuminance based upon visual performance
criteria for different task conditions and observer ages, (b)
evaluating the extent to which actual lighting installations meet
these criteria, and (c) Providing measures of overall performance
of tasks with significant visual components for use in cost-benefit
analyses of lighting.
It is to be emphasized that, although the analytic model
described in the present two volumes of Report No. 19/2 is believed
to have potential usefulness to the CIE in the areas of lighting
applications listed above, the present two volumes do not describe
application procedures for these purposes. It is anticipated that
the development of such procedures will be undertaken in the future
by appropriate agencies of the CIE and reported separately.
The present Volume I of CIE Report No. 19/2 presents a
description of the technical foundations of the analytic model
insofar as it describes the effects of lighting parameters upon
"visual performance potential, "a measure of the maximum visual
performance to be expected under various lighting situations.
Volume II presents a summary description of the analytic model,
tabular and graphical representations of the effects of lighting
parameters upon visual performance potential, and application
guidelines including mathematical methods for estimating task
performance and overall performance from visual performance
potential. It is suggested that the visual performance specialist
with respect to application guidelines or the relationships between
task performance and/or overall performance and visual performance
potential. (It is suggested that the applications engineer begin
with Volume II, turning to the present Volume I if additional
information is desired with respect to the technical foundations of
the model.)