Relationship between Viewing Distance and Visual Fatigue in Relation to Feeling of Involvement

  • Authors:

  • Kiyomi Sakamoto;Shoichi Aoyama;Shigeo Asahara;Kuniko Yamashita;Akira Okada

  • Affiliations:

  • Corporate R&D Strategy Office, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan 570-8501;Corporate R&D Strategy Office, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan 570-8501;Corporate R&D Strategy Office, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan 570-8501;Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan 558-8585;Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan 558-8585

  • Venue:
  • APCHI '08 Proceedings of the 8th Asia-Pacific conference on Computer-Human Interaction
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

In this study, we carried out experiments to measure the effect of viewing distance on visual fatigue using two kinds of visual content. Both experiments showed that visual fatigue reached a minimum at a distance of 3 to 4 times the height of the display (3---4H) and that sympathetic nerve activity peaked at around 3H. These results indicate that the viewing distance for less visual fatigue and a closer feeling of involvement might be in between the two distances. These indices, which we adopt in this study, have the potential to be effective evaluation indices for measuring visual fatigue taking feeling of involvement into consideration.