In August, the European Union voted to abolish the bi-annual change in clock time. `Whether the continent will be in constant ‘wintertime’ or ‘summertime’ remains to be decided and this imposes a lot of debate in the various countries of the European Union. Chrono@Work is actively involved in international and national discussion. International and Dutch…
Marijke Gordijn from Chrono@Work co-authors a paper, published in Scientific Reports, about how the eye uses natural light information to synchronize the biological clock to the outdoor light, even when clouds are covering the sky. The mammalian circadian system encodes both absolute levels of light intensity and color to phaselock (entrain) its rhythm to the…
An overwhelming majority of the European population voted against the Daylight Saving Time (DST) clock shifts. Of the 4.6 million respondents to the online survey of the European Commission, no less than 80 percent indicated they wanted to get rid of the shift back and forth in time twice a year. It is now up…
Invited by Honeywell and Medilux, Chrono@Work gave a lecture in Muscat (Oman) on ‘human solutions for control rooms’. In between very technical lectures and for a very special, interested audience, we talked about putting the human in the center of attention. What can we do to optimize the 24h environment for people working 24/7 in…
On May 17th, Pauline Bollen and Marijke Gordijn from Chrono@Work organized an interactive workshop for a group of 15 social workers of academic institutes in the Netherlands. The assignment was clear: inform us on possible sleep problems we may encounter in our office and how to proceed if we recognize some. The 3h-workshop consisted of…
