Researchers evaluate new technology for prescribing glasses Red, sore eyes. If you work long hours on a computer, you know the symptoms. As far back as 1991, a Harris poll identified eyestrain as the top office-related complaint, affecting 47 percent of all office workers. Peterson has been known to sit in front of his computer for 16 hours straight. Between his studies and his computer-related campus jobs, he spends at least five hours a day, seven days a week looking at a computer monitor.
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Emily Swensen '88, J.D. '96, uses a personal computer at work and a laptop for notetaking in her law school classes at night. She figures she spends a minimum of six hours a day staring at a computer screen. She suffers from blurred vision, sore eyes and even headaches. Sometimes they can't live up to my expectations. And we certainly see computer-related symptoms with college students, who spend many hours on the computer doing research and writing papers.