Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hou5g.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!ariel!hou5f!hou5g!pgf From: pgf@hou5g.UUCP (Paul Fox) Newsgroups: net.works Subject: Re: Data Considered Harmful Message-ID: <489@hou5g.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 10:29:13 EST Article-I.D.: hou5g.489 Posted: Wed Jan 9 10:29:13 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 08:04:38 EST References: <159@topaz.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 20 a >I have occasionally become queasy when intently editing a long file >of addresses. I surmise that the intermittent, but nearly >continuous, upward scrolling has the same effect on my visual sense >as the picture of a heaving horizon would. > >Is it possible, then, that headaches, nausea, or even miscarriages, >are caused in some people by the constant scrolling of data? Fascinating idea! I've always noticed that I don't feel too good after, for instance, a long session of reading news, but I've always ascribed it to a management plot of some kind... :-) Seriously, though, scrolling tasks do bother me more than others. I wonder if there's a difference in the effects of smooth as opposed to jump scrolling? -- Paul Fox, AT&T Information Systems, Holmdel NJ. [ihnp4|vax135]!hou5g!pgf (201)834-3740