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Our previous study has demonstrated the benefits of a reflective sleeve to redirect lighting and to enhance luminous intensity of fluorescent tube lamps in certain light projecting angles. A reflective sleeve is composed of a plastic reflector and a transparent refractor. However, the intensive centralized lighting may increase the possibilities of producing glare. In this study, the transparent refractor of the sleeve is replaced with a diffuser to compose an anti-glare sleeve. This study adopts measurement, optical software simulation, and experiment methods to investigate the effects of an anti-glare sleeve on redirecting lighting and reducing glare. The results demonstrate that luminous intensity towards viewing objects of a fluorescent tube lamp enhances after adopting an anti-glare sleeve. In addition, software simulation indicates an anti-glare sleeve increases light uniformity and reduces glare. The subjective evaluation also shows that florescent tube lamps with anti-glare sleeves produce less light reflection on various papers and more comfortable reading.
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Uang, ST., Liu, CL., Chang, M. (2009). The Effects of an Anti-glare Sleeve Installed on Fluorescent Tube Lamps on Glare and Reading Comfort. In: Jacko, J.A. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. Ambient, Ubiquitous and Intelligent Interaction. HCI 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5612. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02580-8_60
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