This paper presents an image quality evaluation of privacy filters for CRT display workstations. A photometric procedure was developed to evaluate the optical quality of privacy filters across horizontal display viewing angles. Then, the procedure was applied to two commercially-available privacy filter products. The results of the optical evaluation were compared with subjective image quality judgments of the privacy-filtered CRTs viewed under various ambient illumination, screen contrast polarity, and viewing angle conditions. The findings establish a human factors basis and procedure for objectively characterizing the image quality of privacy filters used on CRT displays.
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