Task specificity of finger dexterity tests

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 145-147

  Berger, Monique A M ^a   Krul, Arno J ^b   Daanen, Hein A M ^b,c  

^a THE HAGUE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dexterity tests; Gloves

Indexed keywords

WETTING;

DRY AND WET CONDITIONS; DRY CONDITION; GLOVES; SPECIFIC TASKS;

TESTING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COLD EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; O'CONNOR FINGER DEXTERITY TEST; PERFORMANCE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; PURDUE PEGBOARD TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VOLUNTEER;

EID: 51349164886     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2008.01.014     Document Type: Article

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