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look up "misplaced salience" - over use of colour in human machine interfaces.
More recent guidelines stress the use of low contrast gray backgrounds and limited use of color.
http://www.marinetech.org/files/mari...8-phpapp02.pdf
check the references - it may be that CVD actually
improves situational awareness by filtering out unnecessary colour detail (misplaced salience)