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Measuring How Quickly the Eye Focuses After Sustained Viewing of Close-up Images and Videos

NCT07679048 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2026-07-08

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Summary

In this experiment, subjects will view a cross pattern on the screen and be asked to focus their eyes on it. The cross pattern will look like it is moving towards and away from the eye in a back-and-forth motion. As the subjects focus their eyes on the shapes, the investigators will measure the focus of their eyes using a device called a wavefront sensor. This device uses infrared light to measure the optical properties of the eye in real time. Our goal is to find out how well the eye focuses before and after viewing images on a screen up close (25cm). Since many people spend a lot of time looking at a computer screen while at work or at school, it is important to understand how this affects the eye's ability to focus.

Conditions

  • Distance Viewing
  • Prolonged Near Viewing

Interventions

OTHER

Near viewing first

In a given session of the experiment (1.5 hours), participants do 2 sets of accommodation tasks. One task happens after viewing a screen for 20 minutes at 25cm, and the other task happens after looking at a distant object (10m) for 20 minutes. In one intervention, the session is structured such that the screen is viewed first ('near viewing first').

OTHER

Distant viewing first

In a given session of the experiment (1.5 hours), participants do 2 sets of accommodation tasks. One task happens after viewing a screen for 20 minutes at 25cm, and the other task happens after looking at a distant object (10m) for 20 minutes. In one intervention, the session is structured such that the distant object is viewed first ('distant viewing first').

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Eye Institute (NEI)

    collaborator NIH

  • Rochester Institute of Technology

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Benjamin M Chin, Doctorate · Rochester Institute of Technology

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
35 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-06-25
Primary Completion
2026-12-15
Completion
2026-12-15

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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