[visionlist] Call for abstracts: Lighting in Artistic, Commercial, and Retail Spaces

[Davis, Wendy L.]

Hello,

I'm recruiting speakers for the "Psychophysical Effects of Lighting" session at this upcoming conference (see announcement below).  I'm particularly hoping that some early career researchers (e.g., students, postdocs, etc.) will want to give oral presentations, as well as meet scientists working in applied areas of vision, color, and lighting.  The conference will be in October in Maryland (near Washington DC) and registration is only $150 ($75 for students & retirees).

Feel free to e-mail me with any questions or if you'd like to discuss your abstract before submitting it.

Wendy


Lighting in Artistic, Commercial, and Retail Spaces

Dates: Oct. 13-14th, 2009

NIST Green Auditorium, Gaithersburg MD

The Council for Optical Radiation Measurements (CORM) and the Inter-Society Color Council (ISCC) would like to announce a joint meeting entitled "Lighting in Artistic, Commercial, and Retail Spaces" to be held October 13-14, 2009 at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Sessions are planned on the following topics:

*       Use of Lighting in Artistic and Commercial Spaces
This session will explore the effects of lighting in museum and retail applications. An important aspect of this is the relationship between the lighting, the materials, and color rendering of the sources with perception by human observers.

*       Psychophysical Effects of Lighting
This session will examine the relationships between the physical dimensions of lighting and humans' visual perception, performance, and other psychological attributes.  Presentations may include basic laboratory studies as well as more naturalistic investigations.

*       Measurement of sources in situ
 This session will cover the science and metrology of ambient light in the field. The goal will be to understand the measurement of physical light sources in non-laboratory environments and ultimately to relate this understanding to the applications in the first two sessions.

Presentation are being solicited for these and related topics. Please submit one-page abstracts in MS Word or PDF to either of the technical contacts listed below by August 14. We anticipate presentations to be 30 minutes in length.

The conference will feature tours of the NIST facility, including the new room-sized spectrally-tunable lighting facility for the psychophysical evaluation of lighting. Following this meeting will be meetings of CIE-USA and CIE-Canada, in the same venue. CIE/USA and CIE Canada will hold their Technical conference (Thursday Oct 15) and administrative committees (Friday Oct 16).

Submit abstracts by August 14, 2009 to either of the technical contacts:

Dr. David Wyble
Munsell Color Science Laboratory
(585) 475-7310
wyble at cis.rit.edu

Dr. Art Springsteen
Avian Technologies LLC
(603) 526-2420
arts at aviantechnologies.com