Introducing quantitative analysis methods into virtual environments for real-time and continuous ergonomic evaluations

Computers in Industry

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 283-296

  Jayaram, Uma ^a   Jayaram, Sankar ^a,c   Shaikh, Imtiyaz ^a,d   Kim, Youngjun ^a   Palmer, Craig ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Paccar   (United States)

^c Translation Technologies Inc

^d Gehry Technologies Inc

Author keywords

Ergonomics; Software integration; Upper limb assessment; Virtual assembly; Virtual environment

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE INTEGRATION; UPPER LIMB ASSESSMENT; VIRTUAL ASSEMBLY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ERGONOMICS; INTEGRATION;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 33644864530     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compind.2005.12.005     Document Type: Article

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