Investigating Lighting Design for Improved Alertness
2:15 PM - 3:15 PMSat
Marlborough B
Paper Session
Speakers
Alexander Price
Infrastructure Sustainment, Recapitalization, & Modernization Analysis Manager
Air Force Institute of Technology
Increased levels of time are spent indoors, decreasing human interaction with nature and degrading photoentrainment, the synchronization of circadian rhythms with daylight variation. Recent research has shown that both the illuminance (i.e., perceived intensity) and wavelength of light affect photoentrainment and modern lighting technologies have improved our ability to construct lights with desired wavelengths. To improve photoentrainment in low light environments, the current research discusses a multiple regression model to explore the relationship between wavelength composition of artificial light and the circadian stimulus for a fixed illuminance.