by AF 0618 h3 NEOCON — June 22, 2009—Details, a Steelcase company, introduced Eyesite, an innovative monitor arm that supports multiple flat panel displays, during NeoCon 2009 in Chicago.
The Eyesite monitor arm provides one solution for all needs with up to three monitors from one arm, also known as a single architecture. Publicly available research reports indicate that office workers can increase their efficiency by up to 50 percent through the use of multiple flat panel displays, says the company. In addition, the Eyesite monitor arm features address one of the most significant repetitive stress injuries among knowledge workers, eyestrain.
Over the past two years, Details, in conjunction with IDEO, conducted both user interviews and observational research to study the visual display needs of active and passive computer users.
Active users who frequently need to manipulate on-screen data are found in work environments such as data entry, computer coding, and graphic design. Passive users who monitor data and are found in environments like control rooms, production studios, and healthcare settings. The key findings related to how users expected a multiple flat panel display to articulate and which articulations were most important in both the active and passive applications.
Research reports indicate increased active user efficiency relative to the ability to segregate work on multiple flat panel monitors that enabled them to view multiple projects simultaneously, rather than toggling back and forth between windows on a single monitor. Details found that users prefer to align both displays on a single plane, directly adjacent to each other in a cockpit-type orientation and articulate them vertically and focally as one unit.
The Eyesite monitor arm’s “move as one” key design feature provides the vertical position and focal adjustment of both monitors occurs as if they were a single display.
In passive environments, multiple Eyesite supports can be arranged to create a wraparound cockpit effect that makes it easy to monitor data at a glance. All of these features multiple monitors, the simultaneous adjustment of adjacent monitors, and the cockpit effect work together to minimize eyestrain.
The Eyesite monitor arm is expected to meet Cradle to Cradle Silver certification, maintaining Details commitment to environmentally sustainable products.
For more information, see the Details Web site.
