Alternative computer mouse design and testing to reduce finger extensor muscle activity during mouse use

Human Factors

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 573-584

  Lee, David L ^a   Fleisher, Jacob ^b   McLoone, Hugh E ^b   Kotani, Kentaro ^c   Dennerlein, Jack T ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

^c KANSAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS); MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

COMPUTER MOUSE DESIGN; COMPUTER USERS; DRAG TASKS; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN;

BIOMECHANICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FINGER; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ADULT; COMPUTER PERIPHERALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FINGER INJURIES; HUMANS; MALE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 34547201444     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872007X215665     Document Type: Article

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31. David L. Lee is a doctoral candidate in ergonomics and injury prevention at Harvard University, School of Public Health. He received his M.S. in occupational therapy from Boston University, Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation, in 2001. Jacob Fleisher is a senior product design researcher at Pacific Market International. He received his master's degree in design in 2001 from the Illinois Institute of Technology's Institute of Design. Hugh E. McLoone is an ergonomist at Microsoft Corporation and also a director of the Office Ergonomics Research Committee (www.oerc.org). He obtained his master's degree in occupational health from the University of Washington in 1990. Kentaro Kotani is an associate professor in the Department of Systems Management Engineering at Kansai University, Osaka, Japan. He obtained his Ph.D. in industrial engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 1995. Jack T. Dennerlein is an associate professor of ergonomics and safety within the School of Public Health at Harvard University. He obtained his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1996.