Postural versus chair design impacts upon interface pressure

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 619-628

  Vos, Gordon A ^a   Congleton, Jerome J ^a   Steven Moore, J ^a   Amendola, Alfred A ^b   Ringer, Larry ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Chair design; Interface pressure; Posture

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ERGONOMICS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; PRODUCT DESIGN;

CHAIR DESIGN; INTERFACE PRESSURE; POSTURAL VARIABLES; POSTURE;

SEATS;

ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; BODY POSTURE; CHAIR; ERGONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATIN SQUARE DESIGN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESSURE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 33746791062     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2005.09.002     Document Type: Article

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