Some factors affecting reports of visual fatigue resulting from use of a VDU

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 49-59

  Dillon, Thomas W ^a   Emurian, Henry H ^b  

^a SALISBURY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COMPUTER MONITORS; COMPUTER TERMINALS; PHYSIOLOGY; SURVEYS;

OBJECTIVE PHYSIOLOGICAL INDICES; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT DATA; VALIDITY; VISUAL FATIGUE;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 0030109197     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0747-5632(95)00018-6     Document Type: Article

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