The effects of a typing task on the hand volume of the worker

Work

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 111-115

  Francis, Morrisa ^a   Good, Genevieve ^a   Johnson, Jessica ^a   Lathrop, Jill ^a   Ryan, Lee ^a   Propst, Sarah ^a   Shaw, Manali ^a   Moyers, Penelop ^a   Beebe, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Hand volume; Repetitive motion; Typing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ERGONOMICS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUMETRY; WORKER; WORKING TIME;

AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; COMPUTER TERMINALS; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS;

EID: 1642374690     PISSN: 10519815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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