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Subject:Re: Screen Fatigue From:"Robert E. Allen" <re_allen -at- PNL -dot- GOV> Date:Fri, 14 Oct 1994 23:11:13 GMT
In article <01HI997Q1M7C9EIMIU -at- delphi -dot- com>, RJLIPPINCOTT -at- delphi -dot- com says:
>In effect, we're sitting at our desks with two out-of-synch strobe lights
>flashing in our faces. It would seem to me that this would cause fatigue.
That's the most ridiculous idea I've heard--today anyway. Of course,
it's also quite likely true. I'd like to test the hypothesis, but human
subject experimentation is not an "in thing" at government funded
labs right now.