Health effects of 'the Paperless Office' - Evaluations of the introduction of electronic document handling systems

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 389-396

  Åborg, Carl ^a   Billing, Anders ^b  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ArbetsMiljöResursen   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATA ACQUISITION; DECISION MAKING; HEALTH RISKS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS); MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

COMPUTERIZATION; PSYCHOSOCIAL WORK ENVIRONMENT; STATIC WORK POSTURES; STRESS-RELATED DISORDERS;

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE;

EID: 0344201915     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01449290310001624338     Document Type: Conference Paper

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