Office task effects on comfort and body dynamics in five dynamic office chairs

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 320-328

  Groenesteijn, Liesbeth ^a,b   Ellegast, Rolf P ^c   Keller, Kathrin ^c   Krause, Frank ^a   Berger, Helmut ^d   de Looze, Michiel P ^a,e  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c BGIA Inst for Occupational Health and Safety of the German Accident Insurance   (Germany)

^d VBG Accident Prevention and Insurance Association for Administration   (Germany)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

(Dis)comfort; Office seating and tasks; Physical effects

Indexed keywords

ERGONOMICS; PHYSICAL THERAPY;

(DIS)COMFORT; CERVICAL SPINE; COMFORT RATINGS; COMPUTER WORK; HEAD POSITION; OFFICE SEATING AND TASKS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL EFFECTS;

OFFICE EQUIPMENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACK; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; CERVICAL SPINE; CHAIR; COMFORT; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; DYNAMIC OFFICE CHAIR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ERGONOMICS; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB PERFORMANCE; KYPHOSIS; LEG; MALE; MANUAL LABOR; MECHANICAL STRESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TELEPHONING;

EID: 80054691280     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: 18729126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2011.06.007     Document Type: Article

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