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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
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Posted: Wed Jan  9 10:29:13 1985
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Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ
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>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?
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			Paul Fox, AT&T Information Systems, Holmdel NJ.
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