First Advisor

Gerald Murch

Term of Graduation

Fall 1986

Date of Publication

10-15-1986

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (M.S.) in Psychology

Department

Psychology

Language

English

Subjects

Video display terminals, Word processing, Computer graphics, Text processing (Computer science), Word processing operations

DOI

10.15760/etd.5581

Physical Description

1 online resource (2, 52 pages)

Abstract

Two hardware factors contributing to the overall image quality of digital CRTs are display resolution and addressability. The relationship between these two factors and human performance was modeled by a metric of display quality, the Resolution Addressability Ratio (RAR), and investigated within the contexts of Word-Processing (WP) and Computer-Aided-Drafting (CAD) tasks. The findings indicate a perceptual limit to MTF bandwidth improvements, and significant differences in display quality requirements between the two applications. The regression of image quality as a function of RAR metric values resulted in an r² = 0.94 for the WP task and an r² = 0.79 for the CAD task. These findings are discussed in terms of engineering guidelines for the design of CRT and flat-panel displays for applications which vary by the amount of the density of information in their typical displays.

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https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/20728

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