An ergonomic design and performance evaluation of pipettes

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 487-493

  Lee, Yung Hui ^a   Jiang, Mon Shing ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Ergonomic design; Musculature strain; Pipette

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; ERGONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB PERFORMANCE; MALE; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; MUSCLE INJURY; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY;

EID: 0033485498     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-6870(99)00011-3     Document Type: Article

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