Resources

Handy links for more information

Light Beyond Vision

Versalux & Research Team – Full Brochure 

2020 Webinar: Sean Cain and Vince Macri – YouTube

CIE International Commission on Illumination

CIE Position Statement on Non-Visual Effects of Light – Recommending Proper Light at the Proper Time, 2nd Edition – October 2019 – PDF

Position Statement on the Blue Light Hazard – April 2019 – PDF

IES - USA (Illuminatin Engineering Society)

Circadian Lighting: a Neuroscientist’s Perspective – 2019 – Web Page

High Colour Rendering can enable Better Vision without requiring More Power – Web Page

LED's Magazine

Oil and Gas Industry Issues – Circadian Lighting Guidelines – Article

LEDs Magazine Lighting for Health and Wellbeing Conference – Article

MelaGen® Media Releases

Blue Light helps the Body Clock Tick – Science Meets Business – Article

Harnessing light to benefit our hospitals – Hospital and Healthcare – Article

The Cost Of Inadequate Sleep

Clare Anderson: Light Beyond Vision – Melbourne 2019 – YouTube

Ian Dunican: Sleep In… and Win! TEDxPerth – YouTube

Matt Walker: Sleep is Your Superpower TED Talk – YouTube

Monash University Recent Papers (Australian Research)

Do No Harm: The Beginning of the Age of Healthy Hospital Lighting – Web Page

A Blue-Enriched, Increased Intensity Light Intervention to Improve Alertness and Performance in Rotating Night Shift Workers in an Operational Setting – PDF

High Sensitivity and Interindividual Variability in the Response of the Human Circadian System to evening light – Web Page

Afraid of the Dark: Light acutely suppresses activity in the human amygdala – Web Page

The Dark Side: How too much light is making us sick – Web Page

 

Well Being

Circadian Lighting Design – WELL v2 Q1 2021 – View Guidelines

Additional Research

We can read each other’s emotions from subtle changes in facial colour – Web Page

Facial Colour is an Efficient Mechanism to Visually Transmit Emotion – Web Page

Impact of Upgraded Lighting on Falls in Care Home Residents – Web Page

Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety Final Report

How BAD is blue light for your sleep? – Watch Video