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43‐4: Revisiting Lighting Standards for Critical Viewing Tasks
Author(s) -
Miller Michael E.,
Shorter Patrick
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
sid symposium digest of technical papers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.351
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 2168-0159
pISSN - 0097-966X
DOI - 10.1002/sdtp.10746
Subject(s) - alertness , computer science , human–computer interaction , intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells , psychology , neuroscience , retina , retinal ganglion cell , psychiatry
With the adoption of electronic displays for critical viewing tasks, lighting environments were specified to minimize the reflection of ambient light from the display, maximizing display contrast and user performance. While these standards were necessary for early CRT displays, they have remained relatively unchanged despite adoption of replacement display technologies. Increased awareness of the intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell (ipRGC) pathways and their impact on operator circadian rhythms, alertness, and other nonimage forming vision (NIF) processes, raises serious question about whether these lighting standards optimize user performance as originally intended or require serious revision.