Determination and evaluation of acceptable force limits in single-digit tasks

Human Factors

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 545-556

  Nussbaum, Maury A ^a,b,c   Johnson, Hope ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

^c Virginia Tech ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORCE CONTROL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

MAXIMAL ACCEPTABLE LIMITS (MAL);

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; MALE; MUSCLE FORCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THUMB;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EXERTION; FEMALE; FINGERS; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE VALUES; THUMB; WEIGHT-BEARING; WORKPLACE;

EID: 0036960523     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/0018720024496908     Document Type: Article

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