This book is the product of Research Study Group (RSG) 13 on "Human
Engineering Evaluation on the Use of Colour in Electronic Displays," of
Panel 8, "Defence Applications of Human and Biomedical Sciences," of the
NATO Defence Research Group. RSG 13 was chaired by Heino Widdel
(Germany) and consisted of Jeffrey Grossman (United States), Jean-Pierre
Menu (France), Giampaolo Noja (Italy, point of contact), David Post
(United States), and Jan Walraven (Netherlands). Initially, Christopher
Gibson (United Kingdom) and Sharon McFaddon (Canada) participated also.
Most of these representatives served previously on the NATO program
committee that produced Proceedings of a Workshop on Colour Coded vs.
Monochrome Displays (edited by Christopher Gibson and published by the
Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, England) in 1984. RSG 13 can
be regarded as a descendent of that program committee. RSG 13 was formed
in 1987 for the purpose of developing and distributing guidance
regarding the use of color on electronic displays. During our first
meeting, we discussed the fact that, although there is a tremendous
amount of information available concerning color vision, color
perception, colorimetry, and color displays-much of it relevant to
display design-it is scattered across numerous texts, journals,
conference proceedings, and technical reports. We decided that we could
fulfill the RSG's purpose best by producing a book that consolidates and
summarizes this information, emphasizing those aspects that are most
applicable to display design.