The effects of visual display distance on eye accommodation, head posture, and vision and neck symptoms

Human Factors

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 830-838

  Rempel, David ^a   Willms, Kirsten ^a   Anshel, Jeffrey ^b   Jaschinski, Wolfgang ^c   Sheedy, James ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Corporate Vision Consulting ^*  (United States)

^c LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

^d PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; DISPLAY DEVICES; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; PATIENT TREATMENT; VISION;

COMPUTER DISPLAYS; COMPUTER SCREEN; IRRITATED EYES; VIEWING DISTANCES; VISUAL ACUITY;

MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

ACCOMMODATION; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; EYE IRRITATION; HEAD POSITION; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NECK INJURY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISPLAY UNIT; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DATA DISPLAY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HEADACHE; HUMANS; INTERNET; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; NECK PAIN; POSTURE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34548843889     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872007X230208     Document Type: Article

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