Workload assessment in field using the ambulatory CUELA system

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5620 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 221-226

  Ellegast, Rolf ^a   Hermanns, Ingo ^a   Schiefer, Christoph ^a  

^a INSTITUT FÜR ARBEITSSCHUTZ DER DEUTSCHEN GESETZLICHEN UNFALLVERSICHERUNG IFA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ambulatory workload assessment; CUELA; Ergonomic field analysis; Inertial tracking device; Motion capturing

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY WORKLOAD ASSESSMENT; CUELA; ERGONOMIC FIELD ANALYSIS; INERTIAL TRACKING DEVICE; MOTION CAPTURING;

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS;

ERGONOMICS;

EID: 70350342000     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02809-0_24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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