Exposure to daylight has much to offer and should be optimised to maximise its potential. In order to harvest its benefits, any visual discomfort from daylight should be anticipated and minimised. Hence, there is the need to predict discomfort from daylight glare. While more than 20 models for predicting discomfort from daylight glare have been developed, none accurately predict it. The inclusion of additional factors in the models may improve the predictions. One such factor is the socio-environmental context of the observer. This study compares the evaluations of discomfort glare from daylight for office buildings in four socio-environmental contexts: Chile, Belgium, Japan and Switzerland. The evaluations of discomfort glare, each consisting of subjective assessments and physical measurements of a view condition, were collected at the office desks of 401 participants, although only 211 responses were used in the analyses due to exclusion rules. The results do not suggest evidence of an influence of socio-environmental context on discomfort from daylight glare. In other words, the participants in this study perceived discomfort glare similarly, regardless of their socio-environmental context.

暴露于日光下可以提供很多好处，应该对其进行优化以使其潜力最大化。为了获得其好处，应预见并尽量减少日光造成的视觉不适。因此，有必要从日光下预测不适。虽然已经开发了20多个预测日光不适感的模型，但没有一个模型能够准确预测。在模型中包括其他因素可以改善预测。这样的因素之一就是观察者的社会环境背景。这项研究比较了四种社会环境下办公楼在日光下的不适眩光评估：智利，比利时，日本和瑞士。不适感眩光的评估包括主观评估和对观察状况的物理测量，在401名参与者的办公桌上收集了样本，尽管由于排除规则，在分析中仅使用了211种答复。该结果没有提供证据证明社会环境对日光眩光不适有影响。换句话说，无论他们的社会环境如何，本研究的参与者均会类似地感觉到不适的眩光。