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Background illumination and its effects on peripheral visual awareness for miners using cap lamps

✍ Scribed by R. Martin; R.A. Graveling


Book ID
102637560
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1983
Tongue
English
Weight
285 KB
Volume
14
Category
Article
ISSN
0003-6870

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✦ Synopsis


The effects on the detection of objects moving in the peripheral field of adding ambient illumination (giving an illuminance of 5 lux) to that provided by a miner's cap lamp were examined in simulated underground conditions. The results indicated that an object moving into the visual field was detected at a significantly wider angle with the 5 lux ambient illuminance than without it and that greater target reflectance also increased the range of peripheral vision.