It is well known that older people are more sentitive to discomfort glare than young people. This sensitivity is one of the visual problems that go with aging. On the relationship between discomfort glare and an observer's age, Bennett has already reported that older people produce lower BCDs (Borderline between Comfort and Discomfort) than young people. It is also known that the discomfort glare is affected by the color temperature of the light sources used, but this effect has not been clarified quantitatively.
In order to clarify the quantitative relationship between the discomfort glare and the color temperature of light sources, we conducted a series of experiments on the discomfort glare for light sources with different color temperatures. The results are as follows (1) Both old and young observers are more sensitive to discomfort glare for the light sources with high color temperatures than for those with low color temperatures.(2) The effects of the color temperatures on the discomfort glare are about the same for both old and young observers.(3) The spectral distribution of light sources has no effect on the discomfort glare, if these color temperatures are constant.