Laboratorio LUCE

Laboratorio di Progettazione, illuminotecnica, fotometria e colorimetria. Dipartimento di Design

New Light Vision: nuovo sistema di illuminazione per utenze domestiche deboli: anziani, soggetti con mobilità ridotta e ipovedenti

Title: New Light Vision: nuovo sistema di illuminazione per utenze domestiche deboli: anziani, soggetti con mobilità ridotta e ipovedenti
Year: 2012-2014
Partners: Politecnico di Milano - Design Group Italia - D’Alesio & SantoroLight Contract
Financing Fund: ATP project Lombardy region
Keywords:
- Design for subjective well-being
- Dighting product design
- Lighting design
- User centered design

Description:
The research and the following design activities are focused on two epochal transformations: on one side the  evolution of the LED lighting technology with the new possibilities of lighting management and control; on the other side the social transformation of the population with the emerging aging phenomena. These two issues are opening new possible research lines, are defining innovative scenarios in the lighting sector fostering new exploration in new application fields of lighting systems for elderly and users with vision, movement or mild cognitive impairments. The aim of the research is to improve the quality of life and comfort in residential housing for seniors and elderly through the realization of a lighting system based on a detailed technical, scientific, ethnographic and marketing research.

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