A physiological index of the mental stresses cased by the deskwork with VDT and the relaxation by music

2005 Asian Conference on Sensors and the International Conference on New Techniques in Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Research - Proceedings

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 130-134

  Nomura, S ^a   Tanaka, H ^b   Nagashima, T ^b  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MURORAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; IMMUNIZATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; STRESS RELAXATION;

MENTAL STRESSES; OFFICE WORK ENVIRONMENTS; RELAXATION INDEX;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 33846334062     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASENSE.2005.1564522     Document Type: Conference Paper

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