Association between objective and subjective measurements of comfort and discomfort in hand tools

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 643-654

  Kuijt Evers, L F M ^a,b   Bosch, T ^a   Huysmans, M A ^c   de Looze, M P ^a,c   Vink, P ^a,b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Comfort discomfort; Hand tools; Objective measurements

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; JOB ANALYSIS; MUSCLE; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRODUCTIVITY;

CONTACT PRESSURE; HANDSAWS; MUSCLE ACTIVITY;

HAND TOOLS;

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; CARPENTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ERGONOMICS; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PNEUMATIC TOOL; PRODUCTIVITY; SELF EVALUATION; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 34249740726     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2006.05.004     Document Type: Article

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