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Effects of Focused Light on Asymmetrical Visual Search
by Zoë L. Feygin
Faculty Advisor: David Gilden, PhD
As a result of the recent coronavirus pandemic, universities and businesses alike have been turning to virtual learning and communication. Mediating factors of visual attention are becoming more important, especially with regard to digital displays. Questions like, what is the ideal way to display information are becoming more lucrative. Other studies have established a relationship between luminance and visual search, however, no work has examined the relationship between measures of visual search (i.e. reaction time and error rates) and contrast. There is an established deficiency window in complex visual-search tasks in low luminance scenes. The goal of this study is to determine the effect of targeted lighting on accuracy and reaction time in a complicated visual search task. Participants will be assessed on their ability to locate a plain circle in a field of circles with lines through them.