The effects of split keyboard geometry on upper body postures

Ergonomics

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 104-111

  Rempel, David ^a   Nathan Roberts, Dan ^a   Chen, Bing Yune ^b   Odell, Dan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Input device design; Keyboard design; Upper extremity posture

Indexed keywords

BODY POSTURES; COMPUTER USERS; FOREARM PRONATION; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; INPUT DEVICES; KEYBOARD DESIGN; MIXED EFFECTS; MOTION TRACKING SYSTEM; OPENING ANGLE; RIGHT AND LEFT; TYPING SPEED; UPPER ARM; UPPER EXTREMITY;

COMPUTER KEYBOARDS; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; KNOBS; MACHINE DESIGN; TRACKING (POSITION);

TYPEWRITER KEYBOARDS;

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; ERGONOMICS; EXTENSOR REFLEX; FEMALE; FOREARM; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KEYBOARD; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; RANGE OF MOTION; REFLEX; SPLIT KEYBOARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; ULNA; VELOCITY; WRIST; ARTHROMETRY; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; PHYSIOLOGY;

ARTHROMETRY, ARTICULAR; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER PERIPHERALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POSTURAL BALANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 66149163353     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130802481040     Document Type: Article

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