Adaptive lighting automation

A lighting control system for controlling one or more luminaires of a lighting system to illuminate an environment, the lighting control system comprising:

• an interface for sending control commands to the luminaires;
• an automation component configured to:
• automatically control, via the interface, the luminaires according to a set of one or more automation rules stored in a memory accessible by the lighting control system and
• a suppression component configured to:
• process data pertaining to a user in the environment from at least one data source to monitor activity exhibited by the user in the environment;
• detect a condition of increased user stress based on the activity monitoring;
• identify at least one of the automation rules as a potential cause of the increased user stress;
• suppress or modify the identified automation rule for at least one of the luminaires based thereon;
• and
• wherein the data source is a control device arranged to control one or more of the luminaries and wherein said data from the control device is user input provided by the user using the control device.