Accommodation and convergence during sustained computer work

Optometry

Volumn 82, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 434-440

  Collier, Juanita D ^a   Rosenfield, Mark ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Computer vision syndrome; Fixation disparity; Vergence; Video display terminal

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER TERMINAL; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; VISUAL DISORDER;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADULT; COMPUTER TERMINALS; CONVERGENCE, OCULAR; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REFERENCE VALUES; VISION DISORDERS; VISION DISPARITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959377402     PISSN: 15291839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optm.2010.10.013     Document Type: Article

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