Upper quadrant postural changes of school children in response to interaction with different information technologies

Ergonomics

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 790-819

  Briggs, Andrew ^a   Straker, Leon ^a   Greig, Alison ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Children; Computers; Discomfort; Information technology; Muscuoskeletal disorders; Posture

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; STUDENTS;

BIOPHYSICAL IMPACT; POSTURAL CHANGES; SITTING POSTURE;

ERGONOMICS;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; BODY POSTURE; CALCULATION; CERVICAL SPINE; CHAIR; CHILD; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GAZE; HEAD TILTING; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION SYSTEM; JOINT FUNCTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SITTING; TRUNK; VIDEORECORDING;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUSTRALIA; BIOMECHANICS; BOOKS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCOMPUTERS; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; NECK; POSTURE; READING; SCHOOLS; STUDENTS; UPPER EXTREMITY; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 3142764004     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130410001663569     Document Type: Article

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