User attitudes and subjective assessments of various types of sports hall lighting made by badminton players were analysed to determine by which criteria the players judged the lighting. It was found that the apparent brightness of the interior was used in the perception of brightness and that scalar illuminance was a more reliable indicator of this brightness than horizontal illuminance.
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