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From: chrise@bcsaic.UUCP (Chris Esposito)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: Color in Screen Displays
Keywords: color, screen display, user interface, fatigue, ergonomics
Message-ID: <9012@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: 5 Dec 88 17:27:45 GMT
References: <2789@hound.UUCP>
Reply-To: chrise@bcsaic.UUCP (Chris Esposito)
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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In article <2789@hound.UUCP> nib@hound.UUCP (N.BENIMOFF) writes:
>Does anyone know where I can find some good empirical data relating to
>the following question:  
>
>Are there colors that should be avoided in constructing a user interface
>for presentation on a CRT due to fatigue factors?  I.E., consider the
>following scenario.  We have a user who sits in front of a color CRT
>looking at text and graphics for the better part of an 8-hour shift.
>Are there colors that, more than others, might cause problems of a 
>fatigue or perceptual nature?
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
>Nick Benimoff
>AT&T Bell Laboratories
>att!hound!nib

One reference is:

    `ACE: A Color Expert System for User Interface Design'
    Barbara J. Meier
    Comp. Sci. Dept
    Brown University
    Providence, RI 02912

Found in the Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on User Interface 
    Software
Banff, Alberta, Canada
October, 1988



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