Varying the office work posture between standing, half-standing and sitting results in less discomfort

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

Volumn 5624 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 115-120

  Vink, Peter ^a,b   Konijn, Ineke ^c   Jongejan, Ben ^d   Berger, Monique ^d  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c Ergoshop ^*  (Netherlands)

^d THE HAGUE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Discomfort; Sitting; Standing work; Variation in posture; VDU work

Indexed keywords

STANDING POSTURE; VDU WORK; WORK POSTURES; WORK STATION;

ERGONOMICS;

EID: 76649132308     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02731-4_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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