The interaction effect of posture and psychological stress on neck-shoulder muscle activity in typing: A pilot study

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

Volumn 6779 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 22-29

  Chou, Wei Ying ^a,b   Chen, Bi Hui ^a,b   Chiou, Wen Ko ^a,b  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHIHLEE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

EMG; Neck pain; Psychological stress; Typing task; Working posture

Indexed keywords

EMG; NECK PAIN; PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS; TYPING TASK; WORKING POSTURES; INTERACTION EFFECT; MUSCLE RECRUITMENT PATTERNS; NECK PAINS; NECK-SHOULDER MUSCLES; WORK-RELATED MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; HEALTH; MUSCLE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS;

ERGONOMICS;

EID: 79960087913     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21716-6_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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