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Speaker spotlight – Professor Shadab Rahman
Up to 30% of shift workers meet the criteria for sleep disorder, linked to chronic physical and mental health conditions from depression to cancer and diabetes, along with an increased risk of errors and accidents – Lighting the path forward: the value of sleep- and circadian-informed lighting interventions in shift work.
Professor Shadab Rahman is clear that lighting can help, leading ground-breaking studies to identify the optimal intensity, spectrum and timing to create circadian-informed interventions and potentially mitigate the increased sleepiness and reduced reaction times that some female shift workers experience during critical phases in their menstrual cycle – A pilot study of light exposure as a countermeasure for menstrual phase-dependent neurobehavioral performance impairment in women.
Rahman’s most recent work explores practical strategies to optimise timing for shift patterns, comparing ‘slam’ or abrupt changes with delayed (progressively later) or advanced (progressively earlier) shifts and how lighting can help – Dynamic lighting schedules to facilitate circadian adaptation to shifted timing of sleep and wake.
Please join us for this unique chance to learn from Shadab and ask him questions in real-time – Register here.
With thanks to our sponsors Circadacare, ChromaViso, Commercial Lighting and Nobi and to our media partners Darc Media, Designing Lighting, the LIA, the Light Review and the SLL.
SmartTech25 – What’s lighting got to do with workplace technology?
Lighting is everywhere, connected to power and intimately connected to our physical and mental health the obvious gateway and backbone for an inclusive, sustainable and adaptive environment. So why do millions of us spend our working days under a uniform grid of grimly uniform panels, controlled by crude or poorly calibrated sensors that leave lights blazing in full sunlight – and make us wave in the dark when everyone else has gone home?
What will it take for smart lighting infrastructure to find its place at the heart of workplace technology? What are the ‘killer arguments’ that clients need to hear? And who in the value chain really has the skills (or the courage) to deliver truly smart solutions?
Please join my panelists Tom Riby, Global Business Development Manager K-Array; Ravi Lakhani – Head of Smart Solutions Cordless; Megan Dobstaff Design Director and Senior Associate at Gensler; and Rodney Hogg, Director of Property, Facilities, Fleet + Energy at VigrinMediaO2 and I at the SmartTech25.
A Pleasant Workplace Design Show
Three Mmm’s and a couple of ‘ooh’s from three packed floors at the Business Design Centre in London:
And some ‘oooh’s –
It’s World Information Architecture Day!
Challenges of Change: Adapting Information Architecture for an Evolving World.
Your sensory systems are generating around 109 . or 1,000,000,000 bits per second while you’re reading this. And yet the information throughput or response is around 10 bits per second, orders of magnitude slower – The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?
It turns out your brain is really functioning in two modes – an ultra-fast outer layer that handles fast, high-density sensory and motor data, and the slow inner layer that controls behaviour.
The Hollow Mask is a great example of an illusion that exposes that fast-slow tension in real time: your slow brain is fooled as you believe the face is ‘natural’ – nose is always sticking out. But if I showed you the hollow mask revolving in real life, your rapid motor response would not be fooled: if I asked you to touch the tip of the nose, your hand will reach out to the correct distance – The potency of architectural probabilism in shaping cognitive environments: A psychophysical approach.
Isn’t your brain an amazing thing?!