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Assignment 1                                 

Deadline: 14.10.02 (4 weeks)

Student Name_______________________________     Date handed in__________

Assignment Document Checklist

The table below provides a quick checklist of all the documents that should be handed in for this assignment.

	Documents	Tick
1.1.a	Report on ergonomics & physical health
1.2.a	List of ergonomic principles & explanation
1.3.a	Interview questions and justification
2.1.a	Safety poster sketch
2.1.b	Safety poster
3.1.a	Table of monitor specifications
3.1.b	Short evaluation of monitor capabilities
3.1.c	Recommendation of display settings
3.2.a	4 video cards/monitors evaluated

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Assignment 1                                 

Part 1

Question 1.1

1. Explain the relationship between ergonomics and personal physical health and comfort

Question 1.2

Imagine you are a Health & Safety inspector and are going to inspect an ICT based office to determine if good ergonomic principles have been applied:-

1. Create a list detailing exactly what ergonomic principles you are going to look for and why.   

Question 1.3

Imagine you are a Health & Safety inspector and you need to determine if the health, safety and welfare of the workers in an ICT based office are being properly protected.:-

1. Compose an interview list with questions you would ask the workers.  Give a reason why you would ask each question  

Part 2

Question 2.1

The computer workshop room you are working in needs a new safe practices poster to inform students of safety issues when working with computers.

1. Produce a design sketch for this poster ensuring you cover safety issues such as ESD and safe practices when dismantling and assembling computers.

2. Produce a poster from your sketch

Part 3

Question 3.1

Your task is to carry out Internet research and determine typical specifications for a 15" and 19" monitor. 

1. Produce a table that records the following details for each monitor 

	monitor model
	monitor and screen size
	horizontal & vertical refresh range
	resolution range

2. Write a short evaluation of the typical specification range for new monitors

3. Give your recommendation for a reasonable display setting for both monitors.

Question 3.2

Two different monitors will be available to you in the classroom along with two different graphics cards.  Thus we can have 4 different arrangements of monitor/graphic card.  

1. For each of the 4 arrangements

	find out and record the maximum and minimum resolution available for the highest colour range
	find out and record the maximum refresh frequency for the maximum resolution and colour range
	decide which display setting is the most appropriate and print out a screen shot of the desktop.  Explain your choice.

That's it for this assignment!