Seat adjustment - Capacity and repeatability among occupants in a modern car

Ergonomics

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 232-241

  Jonsson, Bertil ^a   Stenlund, Hans ^a   Svensson, Mats Y ^b   Björnstig, Ulf ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Age; Car; Length; Seat; Sex

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; SEATS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

INTRACLASS CORRELATION; INTRAPERSONAL REPEATABILITY;

ERGONOMICS;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; CAR; ERGONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; SEAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; AUTOMOBILES; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURE;

EID: 38649101563     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130701561793     Document Type: Article

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