Muscle strain of the hand-arm-shoulder system during typing at conventional and ergonomic keyboards

Occupational Ergonomics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 105-119

  Strasser, Helmut ^a   Fleischer, René ^a   Keller, Erwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conventional and ergonomic keyboards; Multi channel electromyography; Muscle strain; Standardized working tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 6344222444     PISSN: 13599364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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