Designing multiple visual demand environments for an ageing workforce

43rd Annual Conference of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia 2007, HFESA 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 116-120

  Long, Jennifer ^a,b  

^a Jennifer Long Visual Ergonomics   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Control rooms; Presbyopia; Spectacles; Visual displays; Workstation design

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CORRECTIONS; PRESBYOPIA; SPECTACLE LENS; SPECTACLES; VISUAL DISPLAY; WORK ENVIRONMENTS; WORKING DISTANCES; WORKSTATION DESIGN;

CONTROL ROOMS (POWER PLANTS); DESIGN; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

LENSES;

EID: 84879802896     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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