Seated work postures for manual, visual and combined tasks

Ergonomics

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1060-1086

  Li, Guangyan ^a,b   Haslegrave, Christine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Back; Elbow; Interaction; Shoulder; Sitting; Task difficulty; Task position; Workplace design

Indexed keywords

MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SUBJECTIVE TESTING; VISION;

WORK POSTURES;

ERGONOMICS;

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; ERGONOMICS; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB ANALYSIS; MALE; MANUAL LABOR; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NECK; NORMAL HUMAN; SITTING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRUNK; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY CONSTITUTION; FEMALE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; POSTURE;

EID: 0032789305     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/001401399185144     Document Type: Article

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