Normal horizontal working area: The concept of inner boundary

Ergonomics

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 638-646

  Wang, Yanqing ^a   Das, Biman ^b   Sengupta, Arijit K ^c  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Engineering anthropometry; Inner and outer boundaries; Normal horizontal working area; Workstation design

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

NORMAL HORIZONTAL WORKING AREA;

ERGONOMICS;

ACCURACY; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; FEMALE; FOREARM; HAND; HUMAN; MALE; MODEL; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0033120175     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/001401399185522     Document Type: Article

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