subject: Tips On How You Can Stop Straining Your Eye Before The Computer [print this page] Tips On How You Can Stop Straining Your Eye Before The Computer
Computer users often find themselves in a visually demanding job in a visually unfriendly environment. Here are some suggestion for preventing it.
Keep all light at the same level - Ideally, the brightness of the computer screen should be the same as the light in the room.
Get a glare-resistant screen - These filters that fit on your computer screen help decrease eye-straining and glare. Antireflection screen made of glass are better than the one made of meshed material for proper imagery.
Lighten the background, darken the letters - This contrast on the computer screen is most pleasing to the eye. Make the background white or near white and the letters a darker colour. Although you may not be consiously aware of it, your computer screen flickers, and your eye see this flickering. Lightening the background of your computer screen makes this flickering less discernible to your eyes.
Place your terminal slightly lower then the top of your hand - Your eyes should be looking at the computer at about 15-degree angle. The eyes are most comfortable viewing the screen at this angle rather than straight on.
Use a document holder - These metal stands decrease eyestrain by getting your work off a flat surface and putting it in the same line of sight as your computer screen.
Wear a visor - This helps to block overhead light that is too strong and that interferes with your peripheral vision, which can cause eyestrain.
Shut off a light - Many office environment are overlit. The lighting was originally set up for people looking down at work on their desks all day. But nowadays, people are often looking straight ahead at their computers and getting too much light in their eyes. If possible, shut off every fluorescent ceiling fixture (For example if there are four fixtures in a row shut off the second and fourth one) or at least remove one or two of the four tubes from each fixture.
Move your desk - If you can't shut the lights off, perhaps you can rotate the position of your desk to get the too-bright lighting out of your line of sight.
Get prescription glasses specially made for computer use - People with bifocal and trifocal often have a problem using a computer because the section of lens they need to use to focus on the computer screen is either too high or too low for working comfortably. An optometrist can fashion lenses for computer use.
