Narrative
Light exposure influences health, wellbeing and productivity but existing lighting regulations and practice do not take such ‘non-image-forming’ effects into account. Research from the University of Manchester has established a novel method for quantifying these effects and demonstrated the application of this approach for predicting meaningful biological effects of lighting in real world applications. As a result, the new metric has been adopted as a new international lighting standard, forms the basis of a new set of scientific consensus guidelines for healthy lighting and is being used by the lighting industry to develop products and systems maximising the biological potential of light.Impact date | 1 Aug 2013 → 31 Dec 2020 |
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Category of impact | Society and culture, Policy, Economic, Awareness and understanding, Health and wellbeing |
Impact level | Adoption |
Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms
- Thomas Ashton Institute
Documents & Links
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Research output
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Multiple hypothalamic cell populations encoding distinct visual information
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Melanopsin contributions to irradiance coding in the thalamo-cortical visual system
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Melanopic illuminance defines the magnitude of human circadian light responses under a wide range of conditions
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Measuring and using light in the melanopsin age
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Exploiting metamerism to regulate the impact of a visual display on alertness and melatonin suppression independent of visual appearance
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The melanopic sensitivity function accounts for melanopsin-driven responses in mice under diverse lighting conditions
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Impacts
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A new international lighting standard that meets our biological needs
Impact: Technological impacts, Health and wellbeing, Society and culture, Economic
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Re-designing artificial lights to suit our biological needs
Impact: Health impacts, Technological impacts