Revisiting sitting cross-cultural aspects of seating

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 814-819

  Noro, Kageyu ^a   Lueder, Rani ^d   Yamada, Shunji ^b   Fujimaki, Goroh ^c   Oyama, Hideki ^a   Hashidate, Yuki ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ErgoSeating Co Ltd   (Japan)

^c Gifu Prefectural Human Life Technology Research Institute   (Japan)

^d Humanics ErgoSystems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS-CULTURAL ASPECTS;

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL ASPECTS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 44349151441     PISSN: 10711813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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