Yvonne de Kort
Department / Institute
RESEARCH PROFILE
Yvonne de Kort is a Full Professor and Chair of Environmental Psychology of Human-Technology Interaction in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). With her group, she investigates the effects of lighting conditions on human functioning (e.g., alertness, stress, sleep, and health), specifically targeting light effects for day-active people in real-world conditions. This explicitly includes both visual effects and circadian and acute effects beyond vision, via our biological clock and neural regions related to alertness and mood. The research brings together insights from psychology, chronobiology, and neuroscience and aims to translate fundamental insights in human responses to light to implications for the design of environments, lighting scenarios, and intelligent lighting solutions. We use lighting technology and Virtual Reality to tune light spectra, temporal and spatial dynamics. We investigate their effects through self-reports, psychophysiology (e.g., HRV, EEG), and task performance and employ EMA, (ambulatory) sensing, advanced statistics, data science, and AI approaches.
Uniquely, in addition to controlled studies in laboratories, a growing part of the research of her group takes place in living labs and in the field, where the aim is to test the effects of interventions and interactive installations in real-life situations. Additional research topics include the restorative and invigorating effects of light and nature scenes.
The ties between our social, physical and technological context and human experience are many -- this web of relationships is the domain that I feel at home in, the domain of environmental psychology.
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Yvonne de Kort is a full professor of environmental psychology in the Human-Technology Interaction group and vice dean of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences at the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. She obtained her Ph.D. in Environmental Psychology from TU/e. Yvonne manages the interdepartmental Sound Lighting research program in TU/e’s Intelligent Lighting Institute and the Mental Health program in TU/e’s Center for Humans and Technology. She coordinates national and European projects, among which a recently acquired European Training Network under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN framework: LIGHTCAP.
Recent Publications
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Özge Karaman-Madan,Kynthia Chamilothori,Yvonne A.W. de Kort
Effects of dynamic light patterns with natural and non-natural temporal composition on reported stress recovery, fascination, and association with nature
(2023) -
Isabelle van der Linden,Esther Hazelhoff,Eline de Groot,Daniel Vijlbrief,Luc J.M. Schlangen,Yvonne A.W. de Kort,Marijn Vermeulen,Demy van Gilst,Jeroen Dudink,Laura Kervezee
Characterizing light-dark cycles in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Frontiers in Physiology (2023) -
Wei Luo,Rick P. Kramer,Maaike E. Kompier,Karin C.H.J. Smolders,Yvonne A.W. de Kort,Wouter van Marken Lichtenbelt
Correlated color temperature of light
(2023) -
Wei Luo,Rick Kramer,Maaike Kompier,Karin Smolders,Yvonne de Kort,Wouter van Marken Lichtenbelt
Personal control of correlated color temperature of light
Building and Environment (2023) -
Karin C.H.J. Smolders,Gerrieke B. Druijff-van de Woestijne,Kim Meijer,Hannah McConchie,Yvonne A.W. de Kort
Smartphone keyboard interaction monitoring as an unobtrusive method to approximate rest-activity patterns
Journal of Medical Internet Research (2023)
Current Educational Activities
- Advancing light for human functioning – entrepreneurship in lighting
- Advancing light for human functioning
- Psychology of light and time
- Environmental psychology
- Light and experience
- Sociophysics 2
- Social and environmental psychology
- Secret life of light USE project
- Healthful environments: light, wellbeing and the biological clock
- D-light
- D-light
Ancillary Activities
No ancillary activities