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Indlela Yokuphucula Amehlo Akho Ngemizuzu engama-20 okanye Ngaphantsi

By JD H

Umbuzo wemithombo yeendaba yentlalo ucele abasebenzisi ukuba "bachaze kakubi into oyenzayo ukuze uziphilise." Iimpendulo zazisusela “ndigqobhoza kucango lwakho lwangaphambili kwaye nditshize zonke izinto zakho ngamanzi” (umcimi-mlilo) ukuya “kumvuzo wokuba ngomnye umntu” (umdlali weqonga). Impendulo ecacileyo endiyinika abantu ngamanye amaxesha ithi “Ndijonga kwiscreen sekhompyuter imini yonke.” Nokuba umsebenzi wakho unjani na nokuba umsebenzi wakho ungaphakathi emntwini okanye ukude, bangaphi kuthi abanokuyichaza ngaloo ndlela imisebenzi yethu? Kwaye xa singakhange sijonge kwiscreen sekhompyuter, sihlala sijonga iifowuni zethu, iitafile, okanye izikrini zikamabonwakude.

Njengomphumo wokujonga izikrini, ngaphezu kwesiqingatha sabo bonke abantu abadala kunye nenani elandayo labantwana e-United States nakwamanye amazwe bahlushwa yi-digital eye strain okanye i-DES.[i] I-DES ichazwa yi-American Optometric Association njenge "iqela leengxaki ezinxulumene neliso kunye nombono ezibangelwa ukusetyenziswa ixesha elide kweekhomputha, iipilisi, i-e-readers, kunye neeselfowuni ezibangela uxinzelelo olwandisiweyo ukuya kumbono osondeleyo ngokukodwa. Ikwachaza ukubandakanywa kweempawu zamehlo, ezibonakalayo kunye ne-musculoskelet ngenxa yokusebenzisa ixesha elide ikhompyutha. "[ii]

Oogqirha bamehlo bamisele umthetho othi "20-20-20" ukunciphisa i-DES: rhoqo ngemizuzu engama-20, susa amehlo akho esikrinini imizuzwana engama-20 kwaye ujonge into ekude ubuncinci kangangeenyawo ezingama-20.[iii] Ikhefu elide le-15 imizuzu nganye kwiiyure ezimbini nazo ziyacetyiswa. Ewe, ukuba ufana nam ndiyahendeka ukuba ndichithe elo xesha ndijonge esinye isikrini. Yintoni ke esinokuyenza ukuze ngokwenene sinike amehlo ethu ikhefu?

NgoJanuwari 20 luSuku lokuHamba ngaphandle. Ukuthatha uhambo ngaphandle kuqinisekisiwe ukuba ugxininise amehlo akho kwizinto ubuncinane kwii-20 ezinyaweni. Nokuba uhambo lwakho lukuhambisa kwizitrato zedolophu okanye iindlela zendalo, utshintsho lwendawo luya kwenza amehlo akho adiniweyo alungile. Njengoko sisazi, iColorado iyazingca ngaphezu kweentsuku ze-300 zokukhanya kwelanga ngonyaka kodwa ukuhamba emvuleni okanye kwikhephu kuya kuba luncedo ngokulinganayo, kungekuphela nje kwamehlo, kodwa nakwabanye. Ukuhamba kunceda kwi-cardiovascular fitness, ukomelela kwezihlunu kunye namathambo, amanqanaba amandla, isimo sengqondo kunye nokuqonda, kunye ne-immune system. Njengoko uHippocrates waphawulayo, “Ukuhamba lelona yeza libalaseleyo.”

Ukuhamba nelungu losapho okanye umhlobo kukunceda uhlale uxhumekile kwaye wakhe ubudlelwane. Izinja ngamahlakani abalaseleyo ahambahambayo kwaye zilungile nakuzo. Ukuhamba wedwa nako kunokuba mnandi, nokuba kukhatshwa ngumculo, iipodcasts, iiaudiobooks, okanye ukuntywila kwizandi zendalo.

Nokwazi zonke ezi nzuzo kulula ukusebenzisa isizathu sokuba sixakeke kakhulu. Kodwa qwalasela uphando olwenziwe yiMicrosoft's Human Factors Lab. Abathathi-nxaxheba balinganiswa ngezixhobo ze-electroencephalogram (EEG) ngexesha leentlanganiso zevidiyo ezibuyela emva. Abo bathathe ikhefu phakathi kweentlanganiso babonise umsebenzi wobuchopho obandakanyekayo kunye noxinzelelo oluncinci xa kuthelekiswa nabangazange bakwenze. Uphononongo lwaqukumbela ngelithi: “Ngamafutshane, ikhefu alilunganga nje kwimpilo-ntle, likwaphucula amandla ethu okwenza owona msebenzi ubalaseleyo.”[iv]

Ukuba kulungile emehlweni akho kunye nempilo iyonke, kwaye ikwenza usebenze ngakumbi emsebenzini wakho, kutheni ungakhe uthathe ikhefu? Nangona ndibhala le post yebhlog, ndifumanisa ukuba ndifumana iimpawu ze-DES. Ixesha lokuhamba.

[i] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6020759/

[ii] https://eyewiki.aao.org/Computer_Vision_Syndrome_(Digital_Eye_Strain)#Definition

[iii] https://www.webmd.com/eye-health/prevent-digital-eyestrain

[iv] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/work-trend-index/brain-research#:~:text=Back%2Dto%2Dback%20meetings%20can,higher%20engagement%20during%20the%20meeting.