Word: eyestraining
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...help other out-of-touch hacks? Talk about the blind leading the blind! The growing legions of computer buffs and professionals are loaded with people who turn to an impersonal, unemotional computer to give them what they can neither give nor get from flesh-and-blood relationships. Are eyestrain, increased white-collar crime and broken marriages the improved world the computer has brought...
...major complaints voiced by students were that the lights are overly bright, causing eyestrain when reading, and that they hum annoyingly...
...terminal (VDT) has become an indispensable tool for 10 million clerical workers, typesetters, writers, editors and computer programmers. But as the number of people who regularly use VDTs has increased, so have complaints that long-term exposure to the machines can cause a variety of afflictions, including muscle fatigue, eyestrain, cataracts and miscarriages. Two years ago, a panel of vision experts and psychologists assembled by the National Research Council began a scientific investigation of the effects of VDTs on eyesight...
...some dissent. Panelist Lawrence Stark, a neurologist at the University of California, while agreeing that VDTs do not cause permanent eye damage, contested the view that they are not responsible for eye fatigue. "The report is a whitewash for the status quo," said Stark. "All the complaints of burning, eyestrain, headache, stinging, watery eyes connected with VDT use are valid claims. Just because you cannot measure visual fatigue does not mean it does not exist...
Similar surveys have been conducted by a Norwegian Computing Center, a Swedish Insurance Company, and a Sun Francisco bank. In each, a higher percentage than at Harvard indicates eyestrain, neck strain and back strain...