Spectroscopic Influence of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Display Devices on the Human Nonvisual Characteristics and Melatonin Suppression Response
It has been elucidated that the responses to light by the human eye influence not only color and brightness recognition but also physiological aspects such as hormones. Melatonin, which affects human circadian rhythms, is sensitive to the blue wavelength region of light. We have investigated the spe...
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| description | It has been elucidated that the responses to light by the human eye influence not only color and brightness recognition but also physiological aspects such as hormones. Melatonin, which affects human circadian rhythms, is sensitive to the blue wavelength region of light. We have investigated the spectroscopic effects of light from virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) display devices on nonvisual characteristics by means of an analysis of the spectral power distribution (SPD). The circadian illuminance and melatonin suppression value were introduced as representative figures of merits for spectroscopically evaluating nonvisual characteristics. A VR/AR-like custom-made instrument was used to study how the SPD of the display light source affects nonvisual characteristics. Moreover, using multilayer thin-film filters, optimal conditions for minimizing the change of the visual color characteristics of the display while reducing the influence on the non-visual characteristics are also discussed. For the AR device, we found that its spectrum was mostly affected by external light rather than by the spectrum of the AR display itself. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-95663bbac4c143eebe16791d429d1e672025-08-20T03:15:48ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552018-01-0110411110.1109/JPHOT.2018.28421248370671Spectroscopic Influence of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Display Devices on the Human Nonvisual Characteristics and Melatonin Suppression ResponseChangwook Kim0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8992-6923Hee Chang Yoon1Dae Hwan Kim2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2567-4012Young Rag Do3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0580-4628Circadian ICT Research Center, Kookmin University, Seoul, South KoreaDepartment of Chemistry, Kookmin University, Seoul, South KoreaCircadian ICT Research Center, Kookmin University, Seoul, South KoreaCircadian ICT Research Center, Kookmin University, Seoul, South KoreaIt has been elucidated that the responses to light by the human eye influence not only color and brightness recognition but also physiological aspects such as hormones. Melatonin, which affects human circadian rhythms, is sensitive to the blue wavelength region of light. We have investigated the spectroscopic effects of light from virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) display devices on nonvisual characteristics by means of an analysis of the spectral power distribution (SPD). The circadian illuminance and melatonin suppression value were introduced as representative figures of merits for spectroscopically evaluating nonvisual characteristics. A VR/AR-like custom-made instrument was used to study how the SPD of the display light source affects nonvisual characteristics. Moreover, using multilayer thin-film filters, optimal conditions for minimizing the change of the visual color characteristics of the display while reducing the influence on the non-visual characteristics are also discussed. For the AR device, we found that its spectrum was mostly affected by external light rather than by the spectrum of the AR display itself.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8370671/VR/AR display devicecircadian rhythmsmelatoninblue lightoptical filter. |
| spellingShingle | Changwook Kim Hee Chang Yoon Dae Hwan Kim Young Rag Do Spectroscopic Influence of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Display Devices on the Human Nonvisual Characteristics and Melatonin Suppression Response IEEE Photonics Journal VR/AR display device circadian rhythms melatonin blue light optical filter. |
| title | Spectroscopic Influence of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Display Devices on the Human Nonvisual Characteristics and Melatonin Suppression Response |
| title_full | Spectroscopic Influence of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Display Devices on the Human Nonvisual Characteristics and Melatonin Suppression Response |
| title_fullStr | Spectroscopic Influence of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Display Devices on the Human Nonvisual Characteristics and Melatonin Suppression Response |
| title_full_unstemmed | Spectroscopic Influence of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Display Devices on the Human Nonvisual Characteristics and Melatonin Suppression Response |
| title_short | Spectroscopic Influence of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Display Devices on the Human Nonvisual Characteristics and Melatonin Suppression Response |
| title_sort | spectroscopic influence of virtual reality and augmented reality display devices on the human nonvisual characteristics and melatonin suppression response |
| topic | VR/AR display device circadian rhythms melatonin blue light optical filter. |
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