Comparison of the sensitivity of three psychophysical techniques to three manual materials handling task variables

Ergonomics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 61-73

  Kumar, Shrawan ^a   Narayan, Yogesh ^a   Bjornsdottir, Sigrun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lifting; Manual materials handling; Psychophysics; Sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; MALE; MATERIALS HANDLING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL STRESS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RATING SCALE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE;

ADULT; EXERTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFTING; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSYCHOPHYSICS; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0033008680     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/001401399185801     Document Type: Article

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