#106 - Intersection of Reality and Perception

Jessica Collier of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is fresh off her award-winning thesis and right onto the Get a Grip on Lighting Podcast to share her work in color preference under electric light. She’s building up a library of descriptive tags based on the IES’ TM30 specification, so that vendors and consumers won’t be left in the dark when it comes to all the metrics on the side of a box. We’ve done enough to encourage LED adoption with savings, now it’s time to make lamps that feel good to sit in.