Video displays, work, and vision /
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| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
National Academy Press,
1983.
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=27111 |
Table of Contents:
- Summary of findings
- Introduction
- Field studies of VDT workers and workstations
- Equipment and workstation design
- The concept and study of "visual fatigue"
- Job design and psychosocial stress
- Design, practice, and standards
- Research needs
- Critique of survey methodology
- Introduction
- Surveys of VDT users
- Research design considerations
- Radiation emissions and their effects
- Types and levels of radiation emitted by VDTs
- Biological effects of radiation
- VDT use and cataracts
- Display characteristics
- Effects of CRT display variables
- Display measurement: techniques and problems
- Flat-panel displays
- Filters for VDTs
- Lighting and reflections
- Illumination
- Review of VDT studies
- Anthropometry and biomechanics in VDT applications
- Postural strain
- Overview of biomechanical factors
- Workstation design
- Visual tasks, functions, and symptoms
- Visual issues in VDT studies
- Oculomotor factors affecting visual performance
- Summary and conclusion
- Job design and organizational variables
- Introduction
- A framework for studying psychosocial stressors in VDT work
- Stressors for study in VDT work
- Discussion and conclusions
- Design, practice, and standards for VDT equipment and work
- Principles of good design and practice
- Standards and guidelines for VDT design
- Research needs
- Effects of displays on visual activity
- Psychosocial stressors.
- Appendixes
- A review of methodology in studies of visual functions during VDT tasks / John O. Merritt
- Review of a preliminary report on a cross-sectional survey of VDT users at the Baltimore Sun / R. Van Harrison
- Dissent / Lawrence W. Stark.