Human Factors in Lighting

Abstract

This paper addresses current research activities on the interaction be- tween light and humans, including visual perception as well as cognitive, bio- logical, and emotional factors. We focus on issues which can be deployed at office workplaces and describe how we adopt these findings at the “nLightened Workplace” at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering. The nLight- enend Workplace integrates illumination and information displays in offices. We present our latest developments such as “Heliosity”. We will give an out- look on our future research work on human factors in lighting.