Children's posture and muscle activity at different computer display heights and during paper information technology use

Human Factors

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 49-61

  Straker, Leon ^a   Burgess Limerick, Robin ^b   Pollock, Clare ^a   Coleman, Jemma ^a,b   Skoss, Rachel ^a   Maslen, Barbara ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DISPLAY DEVICES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MUSCLE;

CERVICAL ERECTOR SPINAE; COMPUTER DISPLAY; SYMMETRICAL POSTURE;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; BACK MUSCLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY POSTURE; COMPUTER; ERGONOMICS; FEMALE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NECK; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; VISION;

CHILD; COMPUTER TERMINALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURE; UNITED STATES; UPPER EXTREMITY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WRITING;

EID: 40449129470     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872008X250575     Document Type: Article

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