Reading with a head-mounted video magnifier

Optometry and Vision Science

Volumn 76, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 755-763

  Ortiz, Alberto ^a   Chung, Susana T L ^b   Legge, Gordon E ^a   Jobling, Jeremy T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Head mounted display; Low vision; Magnifiers; Reading; Video

Indexed keywords

CLOSED CIRCUIT TELEVISION SYSTEMS; DISPLAY DEVICES; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

HEAD-MOUNTED VIDEO MAGNIFIERS; LOW-VISION ENHANCEMENT SYSTEMS (LVES);

COMPUTER VISION;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEVICE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEORECORDING; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; AUDIOVISUAL AIDS; COMPUTER TERMINALS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; READING; VISION, LOW; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0033229772     PISSN: 10405488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006324-199911000-00024     Document Type: Article

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