RELATING POSTURE TO DISCOMFORT IN VDT USE

  • 1 January 1985
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 27  (4) , 269-271
Abstract
To identify sources of discomfort in video display terminal (VDT) work stations, the working postures of 100 telephone operators who used VDT to retrieve directory listings were photographed. Attempts to correlate postural angles and distances derived from the photographs with subjective judgments of physical discomfort reported on a questionnaire were unsuccessful. Possible explanations for the failure of the postural parameters to predict discomfort were discussed, and the absence of other postural data that may have been appropriately applied to the specification of VDT work stations was noted. Recommendations for VDT work stations that were phrased in terms of static angles and distances were unsubstantiated and were not yet ready to be codified as formal standards.

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