The second LEDs Magazine Lighting for Health and Wellbeing conference included a stellar roster of researchers and human-centric lighting experts, writes Maury Wright, and some of the more interesting talks focused on characterizing lighting for health and the direct positive and negative impacts of artificial light on health.
Figueiro began to discuss the LRC’s work on a spectral sensitivity function called Circadian Light or CLA that further leads to the Circadian Stimulus (CS) metric. She said most current thinking on physiological response is that it’s not just melanopsin and the intrinsically photoreceptive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs) of the non-visual system that impact physiology. The visual-centric rods and cones play a role as well, although researchers are still working to understand the interaction.
