Light

Laski and colleagues wanted to know more about how dynamic retail lighting could influence shopping behavior. 

Neuroscience research details the consequences of incorporating natural and circadian lighting into interior spaces. The benefits of doing so include improving mood as well as mental and physical performance and wellbeing.  This article highlights important research-based insights relevant regardless of user group or space type.

National culture drives outcomes

Experience, alertness effects

Research published in Sustainabilityindicates that even apparently low levels of outdoor light at night can degrade human lives. 

Researchers are developing a more nuanced understanding of when it is best to use lights of various colors.  and intensities

How can parking lot lighting help people in those lots at night feel safe? 

Bhattacharjee and Pal studied the implications of spotlighting paintings in dimly lit rooms with light of different colors.

Researchers at the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer and the US General Services Administration (GSA) conducted important research related to at-work alertness and nighttime sleep.  

Pelowski and colleagues studied how gallery lighting influences appraisals and emotional experience of visual art.