Discomfort from sinusoidal oscillation in the roll and lateral axes at frequencies between 0.2 and 1.6 Hz

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2644-2654

  Wyllie, I H ^a   Griffin, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; GRAVITATION; SEATS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; ROLL OSCILLATIONS; SINUSOIDAL OSCILLATION;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

ACCELEROMETER; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION METHOD; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRATION;

ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BODY MASS INDEX; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION; SOUND;

EID: 34247874691     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2715654     Document Type: Article

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