Visual Display Terminals: A Manual Covering Ergonomics, WorkPlace Design, Health and Safety, Task Organization
Computer mediated work: the interplay between technology and structured jobs
Communications of the ACM - Special section on management of information systems
Electronic monitoring and the redundancy of control systems: The role of the supervisor
SIGCPR '88 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCPR conference on Management of information systems personnel
Examining the problems of computer-based anxiety: a systemic approach
CSC '87 Proceedings of the 15th annual conference on Computer Science
OCCUPATIONAL STRESS IN THE INFORMATION SYSTEMS PROFESSION
ACM SIGCHI Bulletin
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Magnitudes and correlates of stress were investigated among 248 office workplace VDT users and 85 nonuser counterparts using field survey and objective physical measurement techniques. Other than a tenuous indication of increased eyestrain and reduced psychological disturbances among users, the two groups were largely undifferentiated on job-attitudinal, affective, and somatic manifestations of stress. However, aspects of working conditions were judged less favorably by VDT users. Stress mechanisms were much the same for both groups, involving psychosocial as well as physical environmental job attributes. For VDT users, the chair and workstation configuration were particularly important predictors of musculo-skeletal disturbances, as were corrective eyewear use and ambient lighting for visuo-ocular disturbances.