Publications by Victoria Eugenia Soto Magán

A conceptual simulation workflow to guide design decisions regarding the effects of daylight on occupants' alertness

Marilyne Andersen, Victoria Eugenia Soto Magán, Clotilde Marie A Pierson

Recent developments in the lighting research field have demonstrated the importance of a proper exposure to light to mediate several of our behavioral and physiological responses. However, we spend nowadays around 90% of our time indoors with an often quit ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Alertness in work environments : on the role of indoor daylight exposure

Victoria Eugenia Soto Magán

Light enables to see the world around us, while playing a key role in our biological functioning. During the last decades, light has become an important research topic for chronobiologists and neuroscientists, and their findings are increasingly interwoven ...

EPFL2021

Light hygiene in the built environment

Marilyne Andersen, Victoria Eugenia Soto Magán, Forrest Simon Webler, Clotilde Marie A Pierson

2020

How to assess alerting effects of daylight at the workplace? Learnings from semi-controlled studies

Marilyne Andersen, Victoria Eugenia Soto Magán

Daylight, in which we evolved, is naturally rich in the blue component of the spectrum and has key properties when it comes to impacts on body functioning. Current lifestyles are driving the emergence of a 24-hour society that spends most of the time indoo ...

2019

Audemars Piguet - Electrochromic Glazing Study

Marilyne Andersen, Victoria Eugenia Soto Magán, Forrest Simon Webler

The purpose of this report is to detail the findings of a long-term evaluation study on the impact of installing electrochromic glazing in two different buildings owned by Audemars Piguet. The two locations under investigation are the APRP ateliers in Le L ...

2018

Perceived and yet not seen: non-visual effects in daylit spaces

Marilyne Andersen, Victoria Eugenia Soto Magán, Forrest Simon Webler

Findings from neuroscience are increasingly interwoven with architectural research (1,2). Understanding physiological responses to environmental stimuli in the built environment is critical when evaluating occupant health and wellbeing. Research in the fie ...

2018

Applying non-invasive circadian phase measurement strategies to assess wellbeing in daylit environments

Marilyne Andersen, Victoria Eugenia Soto Magán, Forrest Simon Webler

2018

EPFL Smart Glass Field Study

Marilyne Andersen, Victoria Eugenia Soto Magán, Forrest Simon Webler

The objectives of this study are to evaluate (1) direct non-visual effects of red-impoverished daylight on circadian resetting and alertness and (2) the daily light-exposure pattern on indirect–circadian–effects. The novelty of this study is that it will b ...

KARGER2018

Towards Human-Centric Lighting for Office Buildings: Pilot Study on the Interactions of Visual, Perceptual and Non-Visual Effects of Workplace (Day) Lighting

Marilyne Andersen, Victoria Eugenia Soto Magán

Although knowledge about the impact of light on individuals beyond vision is becoming substantial and less and less controversial, there is still a gap on how to properly address what type of lighting quality one should seek in an indoor space. What consti ...

KARGER2017