Ergonomics Concept – A Day/Night Toggler!
from personal expirience, programs provide little control to users over the brightness and contrast of the program.
For example, i am working on my laptop at night and my environment has little light surrounding the computer, yet the program i use has alot of white space, and this white color is really bright compared to my surroundings, making me discomfortable from the brightness.
Hence, i decided to tackle this ergonomical issue in my program, with the introduction of a Day/Night Toggler function; i was inspired by the same concept that is currently in GPS systems; the user can select a day time brightness and a night time brightness setting, to ease them in focusing on the road rather than the GPs itself.
The Day/Night toggler rather than changing the brightness of the screen/monitor itself.. would change the “white space” of the program; during the day, the white space would be white, and duing the night, the “white space” would be black.
this allows the user to focus more on the programs functions rather than the “white space” the color black also mimics the feeling of a loss in brightness, compared to the color white, which increasing the feeling of brightness.
you may ask, why not just let the user change thier monitors brightness itself?
well, when the monitor’s contrast decreases of increases, the whole screens brightness also follows the same patterns.. which in this case, if the monitor is dimmer, then the whole program also is dimmer, which i dont want in this case: i want “white space” to become dim, yet i want the same brightness and contrast for important functions of the program. hmm i might have to check if this concept is already patent, if not… woot, i mgonna be making some money!
