The integration of 3-D hip-shape anthropometric data bank and human-engineered seat-cushion: The classification of hip shapes and category of seat cushions

Biomedical Engineering - Applications, Basis and Communications

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 77-81

  Sun, Shuh Ping ^a   Chen, Hsiang Ho ^a   Lin, Li Chun ^b   Niu, Gregory Cheng Chie ^a   Chen, Yu Fu ^a  

^a I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b KAOHSIUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Anthropometric Measurement; Hip form; Human Factor Engineering

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; PATIENT MONITORING;

SEAT CUSHIONS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BODY BUILD; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN FACTORS RESEARCH; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; SEAT; THIGH;

EID: 0038573665     PISSN: 10162372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4015/S1016237203000122     Document Type: Article

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