Office seating behaviors an investigation of posture, task, and job type

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 1245-1248

  Dowell, William R ^a   Yuan, Fei ^a   Green, Brian H ^a  

^a Herman Miller Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER KEYBOARDS; MANAGERS; MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS); MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; WORD PROCESSING;

EVENT RECORDING SOFTWARE; OFFICE WORKFORCE;

JOB ANALYSIS;

EID: 0442295332     PISSN: 10711813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1177/154193120104501602     Document Type: Conference Paper

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