Impact of observers' experience and training on reliability of observations for a manual handling task

Ergonomics

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 441-454

  Denis, Denys ^a   Lortie, Monique ^b   Bruxelles, Mélanie ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Confidence rating; Experience; Observation; Reliability; Training

Indexed keywords

MANUAL CONTROL; PERSONNEL TRAINING; PHOTOGRAPHY;

OBSERVATION RELIABILITY;

ERGONOMICS;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ERGONOMICS; EXPERIENCE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MANUAL LABOR; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF EVALUATION; STAFF TRAINING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; HAND STRENGTH; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037095545     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130210136044     Document Type: Article

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