Glove comfort vs. discomfort: Are they part of a continuum or not? A mulit-dimensional scaling analysis

Proceedings of the XIVth Triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics Association and 44th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Association, 'Ergonomics for the New Millennium'

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 95-98

  Cherry, Jennifer ^a   Christensen, Adam ^a   Bishu, Ram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING (MDS); REGRESSION LINE;

BLOOD; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CONVEYORS; CORRELATION METHODS; ERGONOMICS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; METABOLISM; MUSCLE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

BIOMECHANICS;

EID: 1842659237     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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