scope:

This Part of the Defence Standard should be used by designers who wish to develop workstations and working environments that are visually comfortable and reduce visual workload. The majority of recommendations cover conventional visual displays seen with normal vision, but head-up displays and night vision goggles are referred to where necessary.

This Part of the Defence Standard has been divided into four sections as follows:

(a) Section one is a general introduction, including definitions of technical terms and a glossary used in the remaining sections.

(b) Section two deals with human vision and makes specific design guidelines based on our current knowledge.

(c) Section three describes measurement of light and colour. The information in this section is needed to implement many of the recommendations in sections two and four.

(d) Section four deals with basic features of lighting design practice and applications.