The retention of balance: An exploratory study into the limits of acceleration the human body can withstand without losing equilibrium

Human Factors

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 111-118

  De Graaf, Bernd ^a   Van Weperen, Willem ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b National Reference Laboratory   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; HUMAN REACTION TIME;

INITIAL IMPETUS; POSTURAL BALANCE;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PROPRIOCEPTION; SIMULATION;

EID: 0031104657     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872097778940614     Document Type: Article

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