Summary
This doctoral dissertation, conducted in collaboration between Audi AG and KIT's Lighting Technology Institute, investigates the non-visual (non-image-forming) effects of light within vehicle interiors, covering circadian, alertness, and wellbeing impacts. The findings are relevant for designing automotive ambient and functional lighting that supports driver alertness and passenger wellbeing during travel.
Categories
Sleep & Circadian Health: Investigates non-visual effects of light in vehicle interiors, including circadian and melatonin-related impacts of automotive lighting.
The Science of Light: Examines photobiological mechanisms underlying non-visual light effects relevant to lighting standards and melanopic metrics in automotive contexts.
Workplace Performance: Addresses alertness and cognitive effects of interior vehicle lighting on drivers and occupants.
Author(s)
A Niemeyer
Publication Year
2023
Related Publications
Sleep & Circadian Health
- Phototransduction by retinal ganglion cells that set the circadian clock
- The mammalian circadian timing system: organization and coordination of central and peripheral clocks
- The twoāprocess model of sleep regulation: a reappraisal
- Melanopsin is required for non-image-forming photic responses in blind mice
- Strange vision: ganglion cells as circadian photoreceptors
The Science of Light
- Phototransduction by retinal ganglion cells that set the circadian clock
- Color appearance models
- The mammalian circadian timing system: organization and coordination of central and peripheral clocks
- Diminished pupillary light reflex at high irradiances in melanopsin-knockout mice
- Melanopsin is required for non-image-forming photic responses in blind mice
Workplace Performance
- Acute alerting effects of light: A systematic literature review
- Effects of artificial dawn and morning blue light on daytime cognitive performance, well-being, cortisol and melatonin levels
- Can light make us bright? Effects of light on cognition and sleep
- Kruithof's rule revisited using LED illumination
- Shining light on memory: Effects of bright light on working memory performance