1. Light course: Light for communication Thomas Schielke Wismar University Waleed Magdy Fakousa Panagiotis Ireiotis Grischa Witt LIGHT & SYMBOLS “VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES” ONLINE SURVEY STATISTICS & RESULTS

2. Light course: Light for communication Thomas Schielke Wismar University Waleed Magdy Fakousa Panagiotis Ireiotis Grischa Witt ASSIGNED TASK 08 Visualization Techniques To get an overview about the most popular visualization tools used in the profession of lighting from all over the world.

3. Light course: Light for communication Thomas Schielke Wismar University Waleed Magdy Fakousa Panagiotis Ireiotis Grischa Witt Approach: Establishment of an “Online Survey” Objective: Recording all its inputs to come up with statistics for a better understanding and consideration of the language of lighting. 08 Visualization Techniques

4. Light course: Light for communication Thomas Schielke Wismar University Waleed Magdy Fakousa Panagiotis Ireiotis Grischa Witt Survey - Visualization Tools used in Lighting Design Content: The survey lists several effects of light, luminaries, lamps and material properties. 08 Visualization Techniques

5. Light course: Light for communication Thomas Schielke Wismar University Waleed Magdy Fakousa Panagiotis Ireiotis Grischa Witt Survey - Visualization Tools used in Lighting Design The freeware „LimeSurvey“ was used for the online-based survey. 08 Visualization Techniques The free online tool „lime-survey“ was used to do the survey

6. Light course: Light for communication Thomas Schielke Wismar University Waleed Magdy Fakousa Panagiotis Ireiotis Grischa Witt Survey - Visualization Tools used in Lighting Design Participants were asked to rate the following tools according to time consumption & quality of result. - Photography - Sketches - 3dsMax - AutoCAD - Photoshop - Dialux - Relux - AGi32 08 Visualization Techniques The free online tool „lime-survey“ was used to do the survey Questions could be easily answered by a drop-down menu (right)

7. Light course: Light for communication Thomas Schielke Wismar University Waleed Magdy Fakousa Panagiotis Ireiotis Grischa Witt Survey - Visualization Tools used in Lighting Design In addition, participants had the ability to add their prefered tools, by selecting the option „other“. For questions, critics or comments, a contact information was present on all slides to interact with the participants. 08 Visualization Techniques

8. Light course: Light for communication Thomas Schielke Wismar University Waleed Magdy Fakousa Panagiotis Ireiotis Grischa Witt Survey - Visualization Tools used in Lighting Design We decided to abandon the use of images to be sure that the participants are not influenced by our choice of the shown images. 08 Visualization Techniques No images!

9. Light course: Light for communication Thomas Schielke Wismar University Waleed Magdy Fakousa Panagiotis Ireiotis Grischa Witt Survey - Visualization Tools used in Lighting Design The last page of the survey contains questions about anonymous personal data. It gives us a better understanding of the results according to region they belong to, years of experience, office size and gender. 08 Visualization Techniques

10. Light course: Light for communication Thomas Schielke Wismar University Waleed Magdy Fakousa Panagiotis Ireiotis Grischa Witt Survey - Visualization Tools used in Lighting Design The survey was sent to lighting designers, engineers, manu- facturers and lighting design students from all over the globe. In total we wrote to about 1000 contacts. 08 Visualization Techniques

11. Light course: Light for communication Thomas Schielke Wismar University Waleed Magdy Fakousa Panagiotis Ireiotis Grischa Witt 08 Visualization Techniques Results...

12. Light course: Light for communication Thomas Schielke Wismar University Waleed Magdy Fakousa Panagiotis Ireiotis Grischa Witt Comparison between different tools – Glare effect 08 Visualization Techniques Condition: According to Best visualizationCondition: According to Time consumption

13. Light course: Light for communication Thomas Schielke Wismar University Waleed Magdy Fakousa Panagiotis Ireiotis Grischa Witt Comparison between different tools – Luminance effect 08 Visualization Techniques Condition: According to Best visualizationCondition: According to Time consumption

14. Light course: Light for communication Thomas Schielke Wismar University Waleed Magdy Fakousa Panagiotis Ireiotis Grischa Witt Usage of main calculation tools – Illuminance effect 08 Visualization Techniques Region: AmericaRegion: Europe

15. Light course: Light for communication Thomas Schielke Wismar University Waleed Magdy Fakousa Panagiotis Ireiotis Grischa Witt Usage of main calculation tools – Illuminance effect 08 Visualization Techniques Region: AsiaRegion: Rest of the world

16. Light course: Light for communication Thomas Schielke Wismar University Waleed Magdy Fakousa Panagiotis Ireiotis Grischa Witt Remarks on tool’s popularity according to years of experience 08 Visualization Techniques

17. Light course: Light for communication Thomas Schielke Wismar University Waleed Magdy Fakousa Panagiotis Ireiotis Grischa Witt Comparison between tool’s popularity according to years of experience 08 Visualization Techniques

18. Light course: Light for communication Thomas Schielke Wismar University Waleed Magdy Fakousa Panagiotis Ireiotis Grischa Witt Thank you..