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Inadequate workplace illuminance is associated with visual fatigue, stress, and impaired attention, yet its effect on cognitive strain during screen-based tasks remains underexplored through objective physiological indicators, particularly given the confounding influence of the pupillary light reflex (PLR) on pupillometric measures.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Forty-eight working-age adults performed writing and working memory (N-back) tasks under both conditions in a controlled laboratory replicating office environments; pupil diameter was recorded continuously using Pupil Labs Core eye-tracking glasses, while the NASA-TLX and Visual Analog Scales (VAS) assessed subjective workload, stress, fatigue, and eye strain.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      A direct comparison between illuminance conditions (Holm-corrected) revealed no significant effects of illuminance on pupillary parameters (|d| \u2264 0.19), but subjective workload increased with illuminance during the most demanding task (\n                      <jats:italic>d<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.81). Both pupillometry and subjective measures detected significant pairwise differences between task demand levels consistently under both illuminance conditions (Kendall's W ranging from 0.29\u20130.35 for pupil diameter variance to 0.34\u20130.58 for NASA-TLX and VAS Stress). No significant differences were found for the writing task or the 2-back task across any measure.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The results indicate that pupillometry and subjective self-report measures are comparably sensitive to task demand, while only subjective workload was sensitive to illuminance, underscoring the value of combining objective and subjective indicators in occupational lighting research.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpubh.2026.1875100","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,3]],"date-time":"2026-09-03T06:40:42Z","timestamp":1788417642000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Beyond visual comfort: comparing pupillometry and subjective measures of cognitive strain in workplace 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