A statistical method for predicting automobile driving posture

Human Factors

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 557-568

  Reed, Matthew P ^a   Manary, Miriam A ^a   Flannagan, Carol A C ^a   Schneider, Lawrence W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE SEATS; AUTOMOBILES; INVERSE KINEMATICS; PRODUCT DESIGN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

POSTURE PREDICTION MODELS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ACCURACY; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CAR DRIVING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ERROR; EYE; HIP; KINEMATICS; PREDICTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOINTS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ORIENTATION; POSTURE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0036962740     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/0018720024496917     Document Type: Article

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