Title :
Accommodation training in foreign workers
Author :
Takada, Masumi ; Miyao, Masanobu ; Matsuura, Yasuyuki ; Takada, Hiroaki
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Physiol., Aichi Med. Univ., Nagakute, Japan
Abstract :
By relaxing the contracted focus-adjustment muscles around the eyeball, known as the ciliary and extraocular muscles, the degree of pseudomyopia can be reduced. This understanding has led to accommodation training in which a visual target is presented in stereoscopic video clips. However, it has been pointed out that motion sickness can be induced by viewing stereoscopic video clips. In Measurement 1 of the present study, we verified whether the new 3D technology reduced the severity of motion sickness in accordance with stabilometry. We then evaluated the short-term effects of accommodation training using new stereoscopic video clips on foreign workers (11 females) suffering from eye fatigue in Measurement 2. The foreign workers were trained for three days. As a result, visual acuity was statistically improved by continuous accommodation training, which will help promote ciliary muscle stretching.
Keywords :
eye; patient treatment; vision defects; visual perception; accommodation training; ciliary muscles; contracted focus adjustment muscles; extraocular muscles; eye fatigue; eyeball; foreign workers; motion sickness; pseudomyopia; stabilometry; stereoscopic video clips; visual acuity; visual target; Fatigue; Lenses; Muscles; Stereo image processing; Three-dimensional displays; Training; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Osaka
DOI :
10.1109/EMBC.2013.6611218