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Optimized office lighting advances melatonin phase and peripheral heat loss prior bedtime

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Mirjam Münch, Lenka Maierova, Marta Benedetti

Improving indoor lighting conditions at the workplace has the potential to support proper circadian entrainment of hormonal rhythms, sleep, and well-being. We tested the effects of optimized dynamic daylight and electric lighting on circadian phase of mela ...

Nature Research2022

Impact of dynamic lighting control on light exposure, visual comfort and alertness in office users

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Mirjam Münch, Ali Motamed, Lenka Maierova, Marta Benedetti

The lighting environment at indoor workplaces is important not only to provide vision and visual comfort, but also for light's direct influence on human physiology, cognitive performance and mood. The purpose of this ongoing study is to investigate the imp ...

IOP Science2019

Dynamics of Subjective Thermal Comfort and Skin Temperatures Under Self-Selected (Day-) Lighting Conditions

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Apiparn Borisuit, Mirjam Münch, Lenka Maierova

2018

Reinventing daylight

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Magali Bodart, Mirjam Münch, Jan Wienold

2017

Diurnal variations of hormonal secretion, alertness and cognition in extreme chronotypes under different lighting conditions

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Apiparn Borisuit, Mirjam Münch, Lenka Maierova

Circadian rhythms in physiology and behavior are modulated by external factors such as light or temperature. We studied whether self-selected office lighting during the habitual waking period had a different impact on alertness, cognitive performance and h ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Monitoring and rendering of visual and photo-biological properties of daylight-redirecting systems

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Anothai Thanachareonkit, Apiparn Borisuit, Mirjam Münch

We previously developed a Camera-Like Light Sensor (CLLS) to record images using a novel High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging vision sensor. The device was equipped with customized filters for adapting the camera’s spectral sensitivity to both photopic and cir ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Pupil responses derived from outer and inner retinal photo reception are normal in patients with hereditary optic neuropathy

Mirjam Münch, Lorette Leon

We compared the pupil responses originating from outer versus inner retinal photoreception between patients with isolated hereditary optic neuropathy (HON, n = 8) and healthy controls (n = 8). Three different testing protocols were used. For the first two ...

Academic Press Ltd- Elsevier Science Ltd2014

Different colors of light lead to different adaptation and activation as determined by high-density EEG

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Michael Herzog, Yvonne Evelina Thunell, Gijs Plomp, Mirjam Münch

Light adaptation is crucial for coping with the varying levels of ambient light. Using high-density electroencephalography (EEG), we investigated how adaptation to light of different colors affects brain responsiveness. In a within-subject design, sixteen ...

Elsevier2014

Light and chronobiology: Implications for health and disease

Mirjam Münch

Environmental light synchronizes the primary mammalian biological clock in the suprachiasmatic nuclei, as well as many peripheral clocks in tissues and cells, to the solar 24-hour day. Light is the strongest synchronizing agent (zeitgeber) for the circadia ...

Les Laboratories Servier2012

Effects of prior light exposure on early evening performance, subjective sleepiness, and hormonal secretion

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Friedrich Linhart, Apiparn Borisuit, Mirjam Münch

In sighted humans, light intensity, timing, exposure duration, and spectral composition of light are important to entrain the endogenous circadian pacemaker to the 24-h day-night cycle. We tested the impact of two realistic office lighting conditions durin ...

American Psychological Association2012

Comparison of objective and subjective visual comfort and associations with non-visual functions in young subjects

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Friedrich Linhart, Apiparn Borisuit, Mirjam Münch

Visual comfort is a key element at work places and at home. Besides task illuminance and color rendering it is the indoor light distribution, which strongly impacts visual comfort. We aimed to show possible relations between subjective and objective visual ...

EPFL2011

Age effects on spectral electroencephalogram activity prior to dream recall

Mirjam Münch

Ageing is associated with marked changes in sleep timing, structure and electroencephalographic (EEG) activity. Older people exhibit less slow-wave and spindle activity during non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, together with attenuated levels of rapid ey ...

Wiley-Blackwell2011

Daylight Exposure and Circadian Efficiency in Office Rooms Equipped with Anidolic Daylighting Systems

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Friedrich Linhart, Mirjam Münch

Anidolic Daylighting Systems (ADS) typically reduce the daylight flux reaching an office room‟s window section and increase it in the rear of the room. They offer interesting possibilities for the combination of comfortable daylighting and highly energy-ef ...

EPFL2009

Recent Research on Anidolic Daylighting Systems: Highly Reflective Coating Materials and Chronobiological Properties

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Friedrich Linhart, Mirjam Münch, Stephen Wittkopf

Making daylight more available in buildings is highly desirable for reasons of energy efficiency, visual comfort, occupant well-being and health. The Anidolic Integrated Ceiling (AIC) is a highly efficient daylighting system, designed to gather and redirec ...

2009