Resources

Explore our research publications, software tools, and related initiatives in the field of light exposure and health.

Preprints

  1. Biller, A. M., Zauner, J., Cajochen, C., Gerle, M. A., Kalavally, V., Mohamed, A., Rottländer, L., Seah, M.-Y., Stefani, O., & Spitschan, M. (2025). Physiologically-relevant light exposure and light behaviour in Switzerland and Malaysia. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.07.631760 View publication →
  2. Guidolin, C., Zauner, J., Hartmeyer, S. L., & Spitschan, M. (2024). Collecting, detecting and handling non-wear intervals in longitudinal light exposure data. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.23.627604 View publication →
  3. Zauner, J., Guidolin, C., & Spitschan, M. (2024). How to deal with darkness: Modelling and visualization of zero-inflated personal light exposure data on a logarithmic scale. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.30.630669 View publication →

Research Articles

  1. Zauner, J., Hartmeyer, S., & Spitschan, M. (2025). LightLogR: Reproducible analysis of personal light exposure data. In Journal of Open Source Software. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07601 View publication →
  2. Spitschan, M., Hammad, G., Blume, C., Schmidt, C., Skene, D. J., Wulff, K., Santhi, N., Zauner, J., & Münch, M. (2024). Metadata recommendations for light logging and dosimetry datasets. In BMC Digital Health. https://doi.org/10.1186/s44247-024-00113-9 View publication →
  3. Spitschan, M., Mead, J., Roos, C., Lowis, C., Griffiths, B., Mucur, P., Herf, M., Nam, S., & Veitch, J. A. (2022). luox: validated reference open-access and open-source web platform for calculating and sharing physiologically relevant quantities for light and lighting. In Wellcome Open Research. https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16595.3 View publication →
  4. Power analysis for personal light exposure measurements and interventions. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39661605/ View publication →

Software

Related Projects

  1. CIE JTC 20 (D6/D2) Wearable alpha-opic dosimetry and light logging methods, limitations, device calibration and data schemes. https://cie.co.at/technicalcommittees/wearable-alpha-opic-dosimetry-and-light-logging-methods-limitations-device View publication →
  2. MeLiDos – Metrology for wearable light loggers and optical radiation dosimeters. https://www.melidos.eu/ View publication →
  4. Research Data Alliance - Optical Radiation Exposure and Visual Experience Working Group. https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/optical-radiation-exposure-and-visual-experience-data-wg/activity/ View publication →