Flexibility and repeatability of finger movements during typing: Analysis of multiple degrees of freedom

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 29-46

  Soechting, John F ^a   Flanders, Martha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Degrees of freedom; Finger movements; Kinematics

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ERGONOMICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

% REDUCTIONS; DEGREE OF FREEDOM; FINGER MOVEMENTS; FREEDOM OF MOTION; MULTIPLE DEGREES OF FREEDOM; NUMBER OF DEGREES OF FREEDOM; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; WRIST MOTIONS;

KINEMATICS;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COORDINATION; FINGER; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT MOBILITY; MOTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; THUMB; WRIST;

EID: 0031040136     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008812426305     Document Type: Article

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