Comfortable driving postures for Koreans

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 489-497

  Park, Se Jin ^a   Kim, Chae Bogk ^b   Kim, Chul Jung ^a   Lee, Jeong Woo ^a  

^a Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science   (South Korea)

^b Korea National University of Education   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Body dimensions; Driving comfort; Posture; Seat adjustment

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; AUTOMOBILE SEATS; PRODUCT DESIGN;

BODY DIMENSIONS; DRIVING COMFORT; DRIVING POSTURES;

ERGONOMICS;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CAR DRIVING; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KOREA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SITTING;

EID: 0342954978     PISSN: 01698141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-8141(00)00020-2     Document Type: Article

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