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This paper addresses current research activities on the interaction between light and humans, including visual perception as well as cognitive, biological, 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 nLightenend Workplace integrates illumination and information displays in offices. We present our latest developments such as “Heliosity”. We will give an outlook on our future research work on human factors in lighting.
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Braun, M., Stefani, O., Pross, A., Bues, M., Spath, D. (2009). Human Factors in Lighting. In: Karsh, BT. (eds) Ergonomics and Health Aspects of Work with Computers. EHAWC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5624. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02731-4_26
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