Academic Awards 2025 booklet

75 DaylightGuide: A tool for personalized daylight recommendations for the home office The COVID-19 pandemic significantly increased remote work, highlighting the importance of home office environments on employee health and well-being. Light is a crucial factor in indoor environmental quality, impacting both visual tasks and physical and mental health. Adequate lighting ensures good visual performance, comfort, and regulates our biological clock, affecting sleep-wake cycles and overall well-being. Despite existing standards for office lighting, there are no official guidelines for home offices, which are often designed by the workers themselves. To address this gap, DaylightGuide was developed. This tool provides personalized daylight recommendations for home office workers. It was created by examining the current state of home office design in the Netherlands through a questionnaire study, daylight simulations and several rounds of user testing. These studies identified adjustments that can improve daylight exposure, stimulate the biological clock, minimize visual discomfort, and provide sufficient light for office tasks. This Engineering Doctorate project helps remote workers create home office environments with optimal daylighting conditions, promoting both productivity and well-being. Figure 1: User sketch. Figure 2: DaylightGuide.