Monitor situations may be seen as being workplace ergonomic issues. As
someone who works with three different computers & monitors on a typical
day, I have to adjust to differing work environments, and lighting,
while realizing that there are limitations as to what can be done to
improve the monitor of itself. [My purchasing input is certainly
limited.] A 0.28 dot pitch monitor will be 0.28 at the end of the day
no matter what I do. While I can exercise some minimal controls to
effect scan/refresh rates, the hardware ages (as do my eyes). The
hardware might not have met the spec numbers in the first place, when it
was shipped, other than having been within that magical +/- technical
range. [Much the same is true for our eye glasses, relative to the +/-
range of 'acceptable' optical quality.]
I tried to find a technical article written by Jim Seymour, concerning
monitors and viewing situations, a few years ago (in PCMagazine), but I
had no success. The following brief treatment of eyes and distance
situations was the best that I could do.
http://www.ur-net.com/office-ergo/viewing.htm
Now as then, the medical community seems to be in search of a few good
answers. With me, my doctor states the obvious, "you're getting old."
George S. Cole
gscole@ark.ship.edu
Shippensburg University