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Document ID (ISN)53522
CIS number 90-521
ISSN - Serial title 0037-4504 - Sicher ist Sicher
Year 1989
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Jaschinski-Kruza W.
Title Ergonomic advantages of greater distances to visual displays
Original title Ergonomische Vorteile eines grösseren Sehabstandes [in German]
Bibliographic information 1989, Vol.40, No.9, p.506-508. Illus. 14 ref.
Abstract Two types of tasks were performed by test persons at various distances from visual display screens: comparison of data on visual displays and copying of data from a manuscript. There was lower strain on eye muscles at a distance from visual display screens of 70-100cm.
Descriptors (primary) visual displays; visual comfort; comfort assessment; visual display terminals
Descriptors (secondary) subjective assessment; workplace design; equipment layout; comparative study; physiology of vision; human experiments; ergonomics
Document type D - Periodical articles
Subject(s) Ergonomics and work organization
Broad subject area(s) New technologies
Browse category(ies) Accident research
Visual display terminals (VDTs)
Office work