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Stephen Dain
Prof Stephen Dain

BSc PhD City Lond., FC Optom, FAAO, FIES(A&NZ), FMSA

Professor

Room No: OMB LG22

Office: Lower Ground, Old Main Building

Phone: 9385 4622

Fax: 9313 8602

Email: s.dain@unsw.edu.au

Research Interests:

Colour

  • Development of colour vision (school age and beyond)
  • Clinical examination and psychophysics of colour vision
  • Colour metrology
  • Colour and reading disabilities
Occupational

  • Eye protection
  • Visual ergonomics and the visual environment
  • Lighting
  • Occupational and practical issues of colour vision deficients
  • Physical optics and the eye
Selected Publications (last five years):

  • Omar R Dain SJ Herse PR. Color Vision Deficiency In Retinitis Pigmentosa. International Congress Series 2005. 1282: 684-688.
  • Dain SJ. Illuminant and observer metamerism and the Hardy-Rand-Rittler colour vision test editions. Visual Neuroscience 23(3-4) 2006: 685-694.
  • Dain SJ. Know your colour vision challenges. Clin Exp Optom 90 (3) 2007: 155-156.
  • Dain SJ (2007). Color changes in cyanosis and the significance of congenital dichromasy and lighting. Color: Research and Application 32(6): 428-432.
  • Boon MY Suttle CM Dain SJ (2007) Transient VEP and Psychophysical Chromatic Contrast Thresholds in Children and Adults. Vis Res.47(16) 2007: 2124-2133
  • Boon, MY, Henry, BI., Suttle, CM., & Dain, SJ. (2008). The correlation dimension: A useful objective measure of the transient visual evoked potential? Journal of Vision, 8(1):6, 1–21, http://journalofvision.org/8/1/6/, doi:10.1167/8.1.6.
  • Ling BY Dain SJ (2008). Colour Vision in Children and the Lanthony New Color Test. Vis Neurosci 25:441-444.
  • Dain SJ Floyd RA Elliot RT (2008) Colour and Luminance Increment Thresholds in Poor Readers. Vis Neurosci 25:481-486.
  • Dain SJ, Ling BY. Cognitive abilities of children on a grey seriation test. Optometry and Vision Science (2009) 86(6):E701–E707.
  • Dain SJ, Wood JM, Atchison DA. Sunglasses, Traffic Signals and Color Vision Deficiencies. Optometry and Vision Science (2009) 86(4):E296–E305.
  • Boon MY, Suttle CM, Henry BI, Dain SJ. Dynamics of chromatic visual system processing differ in complexity between children and adults. Journal of Vision (2009) 9(6):22, 1–17.
  • Dain SJ, Ngo TPT, Cheng BB, Hu A, Teh AGB, Tseng J, Vu N. Sunglasses, the European Directive and the European Standard. Ophthal Physiol Opt 2010; 30: 253-256.
  • Zaeni A, Bandyopadhyay S, Yu A, Rider J, Sorrell C, Dain S, Blackburn D, White C. Colour control in fly ash as a combined function of particle size and chemical composition. Fuel 89 (2010) 399–404.
  • McNamara, R, Taylor, C, McKenzie, D, Coroneo, M, Dain, S. Colour change in cyanosis and the confusions of congenital colour vision deficient observers. Ophthal Physiol Opt (in press).
  • Moreland J, Cheung, V, Dain S, Westland S. Quantitative assessment of commercial filter 'aids' for redgreen colour defectives. Ophthal Physiol Opt (in press).
  • Yuen G S-C Sproul AB Dain SJ. Performance of ‘energy efficient” compact fluorescentlamps. Clin Exp Optom 2010; 93(2): 66-76.
Other Professional Activities:

  • Honorary Life Member, International Colour Vision Society.
  • Associate Editor, Color: Research and Application.
  • Editorial Board, Clinical and Experimental Optometry.
  • Chair, Standards Australia Committee SF-006 Eye and Face Protection.
  • Acting Chair, Standards Australia Committee CS-053 Sunglasses and fashion spectacles.
  • Member of a number of Standards Australia Committees
  • Member, Optics and Radiometry Technical Advisory Group, National Association of Testing Authorities.
  • Assessor, National Association of Testing Authorities.
  • Member, NSW Optometrists Registration Board.
  • Leader of Australian delegation to ISO Committee TC85/SC6 Eye and Face Protection.