CHRIS N FRENCH'S PUBLICATIONS
See following headings below: UMIST Eye System,
Health Care Management/Professional Matters,
Optometric Methodology,
Software & Hardware,
Perception,
Miscellany,
Art,
Computer Art, and
Book Reviews & Other Articles. (revised 11th March 96)
UMIST EYE SYSTEM (REPRINTS AVAILABLE ON
REQUEST)
- French C N, The PC Potential in Practice, The Optician, 1993, January 29th, pages 28-30,
(pp3).
- French C N, PC Practice in Theory, The Optician, 1993, March 5th, 18-20, (pp3).
- Trevor Hopkins and Sally French-Teeling, The UMIST Eye System in Practice, The
Optician, 1993, April 9th, pages 18-21, (pp3).
- French-Teeling Sally and French C N, The Portable Practice, Optometry Today, 1994,
August 1st, pages 28-32, (pp5).
HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT/PROFESSIONAL
MATTERS
- French C and Tomlinson A, Factors in professional examination performance, The
Optician, January 28th 1972, 163, 18-20.
- French C and Monk J, Patients' attitudes to the sex and age of opticians, The Optician,
October 15th 1976, 172, 21-24.
- French C, Mellor M and Parry L, Patients' views of the ophthalmic optician - Part 1
Communication between practitioners and patients, The Ophthalmic Optician, 1978, 18,
784-786.
- French C, Mellor M and Parry L, Patients' views of the ophthalmic optician - Part 2
Practitioners' work, training and valuation, The Ophthalmic Optician, 1978, 18, 837-842.
- French C, Allen J, Bradbury J, Hardwick G, Smith A and Worthington W, Public attitudes
to earnings, The Ophthalmic Optician, 1981, 21, 457-462.
- French C, Allen J, Bradbury J, Hardwick G, Smith A and Worthington W, Graduate
opticians' work and earnings, The Ophthalmic Optician, 1981, 21, 473-476.
- French C N, Selecting students for optometry: some trends and the problem of the mature
applicant, The Ophthalmic Optician, 1982, 22, 578 (pp5).
- French C N, Selecting students for optometry: the school leaver, The Ophthalmic Optician,
1982, 22, 609 (pp6).
- French C N and Loran D F C, Optometry manpower up to the year 2000 and beyond - Part
1: The past and present, The Ophthalmic Optician, 1983, 23, 421 (pp6).
- French C N and Loran D F C, Optometry manpower up to the year 2000 and beyond - Part
2: The future, The Ophthalmic Optician, 1983, 23, 449 (pp7).
- French C N and Loran D F C, Attitudes of optometrists towards their profession - Part 1,
The Optician, September 16th 1983, 186, 16 (pp3).
- French C N and Loran D F C, Attitudes of optometrists towards their profession - Part 2,
The Optician, September 23rd 1983, 186, 12 (pp4).
- French C N and Loran D F C, Attitudes of optometrists towards their profession - Part 3,
The Optician, September 30th 1983, 186, 20 (pp4).
- French C N and Loran D F C, Attitudes of optometrists towards their profession - Part 4,
The Optician, October 14th 1983, 186, 12 (pp5).
- French C, Planning for the future of optometry - Part 1: Conventional workloads, The
Optician, July 12 1985, 190, 14 (pp3).
- French C, Planning for the future of optometry - Part 2: The future demand for sight
testing, The Optician, July 19 1985, 190, 12 (pp3).
- French C, Planning for the future of optometry - Part 3: Looking beyond the light-bulb,
The Optician, July 26 1985, 190, 16 (pp2).
- French C N, Sight test times, domiciliaries and child vision care, The Optician, June 12
1987, 193, 28 (pp6).
- French C N and French-Teeling S, National variations in sight test patterns, The Optician,
June 19 1987, 193, 24 (pp8).
- French C N, The average interval of time between GOS sight tests, Optometry Today, July
4 1987, 27, 449 (pp5).
- French C N, The current strength of the optometry profession: background and survey
technique, The Optician, October 16 1987, 194, 35 (pp5).
- French C N, Working lives of optometrists, Optometry Today, October 24 1987, 27, 674
(pp4).
- French C N, The current strength of the optometry profession: the influence of age and sex,
The Optician, November 20 1987, 194, 22 (pp5).
- French C N, Ideal average times for sight tests, Optometry Today, November 21 1987, 27,
741-743.
- French C N, Growth in Register Strength and Numbers, The Optician, February 12 1988,
195, 29 (pp5).
- French C N, Future sight test workloads, The Optician, February 26 1988, 195, 16 (pp3).
- French C N, A question of recruitment, Optometry Today, August 27 1988, 28, 474 (pp3).
- French C N, Women optometrists: the work potential for professional women in general?
Equal Opportunity International, 1989, 8, 2, 21 (pp10).
- French C N, The rise and fall of Optometry? Optometry Today, 1993, ??, ?? (pp?).
OPTOMETRIC METHODOLOGY
- French C, Laverty S, Pyke R, Ridgewell G and Vitkovitch P, Psychological aspects of
Snellen VA scores, The Ophthalmic Optician, 1973, 13, 1265-1268.
- French C N and Jennings J A M, Errors in subjective refractions - an exploratory study,
The Ophthalmic Optician, 1974, 14, 797-800.
- Tomlinson A and French C N, The prediction of glaucoma from ocular biometric data -
Part 1, American Journal of Optometry, 1975, 52, 817-822.
- Tomlinson A, French C N and Storey J K, The prediction of glaucoma from ocular
biometric data - Part 2, American Journal of Optometry, 1975, 52, 817-822.
- Loran D F C and French C N, The efficacy of verifying the base curve of hydrogel contact
lenses, International Contact Lens Clinic, 1978, 15, 39-44.
- Wood I and French C, The Dioptron II - in theory, The Optician, August 14th 1981, 181,
7-11.
- French C and Wood I, The Dioptron II - in practice, The Optician, September 4th 1981,
181, 18-21.
- French C N and Wood I C J, The Dioptron II's validity and reliability as a function of its
three accuracy indices. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 1982, 2, 57-74.
- Loran D F C, French C N and Auerbach D, The validity of determining the hydrogel lens
thickness from the swell factor, Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 1982, 2, 231-234.
- French C N, Nixon J A and Wood I C J, Dioptron-subjective and retinoscopy-subjective
discrepancies: effect of age. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 1982, 2, 227-230.
- Loran D F C, French C, Lam S Y and Papas E, Reliability of the tears wetting value,
Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 1987, 7, 53-56.
- French C N and Wood I C J, Behavioral Control of visual field screening using a
microcomputer, Optometry and Vision Science, 1989, 66, 871-876 (pp6).
SOFTWARE & HARDWARE
- French C N, A repeated measure anova for a design with N factors, Behavioral Science,
1971, 16, 415.
- French C N, A program to analyse binary sequences to depth N, Behavioral Science, 1971,
16, 516.
- French C N, The PC Potential in Practice, The Optician, 1993, ??, ???, (pp?).
- French C N, PC Practice in Theory, The Optician, 1993, ??, ???, (pp?).
- French-Teeling Sally and French C N, The Portable Practice, Optometry Today, 1994,
August 1st, pages 28-32, (pp5).
PERCEPTION
- French C, Tactile-vision: thermal and texture cues in the discrimination of black and white,
Nature, 1965, 208, 1352.
- Watson A and French C, Muller-Lyer haptic illusion and a confusion theory explanation,
Nature, 1966, 209, 942.
- Ciesielski K T and French C N, Event-Related Potentials Before and After Training:
chronometry and lateralisation of visual N1 and N2, Biological Psychology, 1989, 28, 227-238
(pp12).
MISCELLANY
- Loran D F C, Lam S Y and French C N, An ethnic comparison of anterior segment
characteristics: a preliminary report, Journal of the British Contact Lens Association, 1984, 7,
158-162.
ART
- French C, Computer art - a load of quasi-spherical objects? Page 44 Computer Arts Society
Quarterly, April 1980, 1-12 - illustrations also in Page 43, 16-17; Page 45, 26-27; and Computer
Bulletin, June 1981, 14.
- French C, Taylor J and Trimby S, Mood judgements in black and white pictures as a
function of tonality and polarity, Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 1981, 1, 115-122.
COMPUTER ART
- cover for Discrimination Learning Symposium, Aberdeen University Psychology
Department, 1967.
- cover for Ophthalmic Optics At UMIST - department prospectus for 1981, 1982, 1983.
- cover for Ophthalmic Optics At UMIST - department prospectus for 1984, 1985, 1986
- cover for P Weston and M Roberts' Computers: Applications and Implications, Harrap,
1982.
- illustrations for H W Franke's Computergrafik-Galerie: Chris French, Angewandte
Informatik, 1982, 519-521; reprinted in H W Franke, Computergrafik-Galerie, Cologne: DuMont
Buchverlag, 1984.
- illustration in H W Franke's Computer Graphics - Computer Art (second edition), Berlin:
Springer-Verlag, 1985.
- illustrations for Zukunft fur die Frau? Voilą, March 1985, 63-64.
BOOK REVIEWS & OTHER ARTICLES
- French C, Computerised mumbo-jumbo, New Scientist, 1975, 67, 317-319. - reprinted in
Worm Runners' Digest, 1977, 19, 87-89.
- French C, Review of Van Tassel's The Compleat Computer, New Scientist, 1976, 71, 32.
- French C N, Review of Agoston's Colour Theory and Its Application in Art and Design,
Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics, 1981, 1, 128-129.
- French C, Look to the future! The Optician, supplement September 28th 1984, 188, 5
(pp1).
- French C and French-Teeling S, Review of Humphriss' Refraction Science and
Psychology, The Optician, 1985, 190, 34 (pp1).
- French C, The need for research, The Optician, supplement March 28 1986, 191, 7 (pp2).