Technical note: Kinematics of head-trunk movements while entering and exiting a car

Ergonomics

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 343-359

  Andreoni, Guiseppe ^a   Rabuffetti, M ^b   Pedotti, A ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE DON CARLO GNOCCHI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automobile ergonomics; Biomechanics; Human machine interface

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; AUTOMOBILES; BIOMECHANICS; KINEMATICS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MOTION CONTROL;

HEAD-TRUNK MOVEMENT; MOTION ANALYSIS;

ERGONOMICS;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSTURE; CAR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRIVER; FEMALE; GEOMETRY; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; TRUNK; ABDOMEN; HEAD; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ABDOMEN; ANTHROPOMETRY; AUTOMOBILES; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HEAD; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 1542753574     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0014013032000157913     Document Type: Article

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