Impact of multimodal feedback on simulated ergonomic measurements in a virtual environment: A case study with manufacturing workers

Human Factors and Ergonomics In Manufacturing

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 145-155

  Hu, Bo ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Salvendy, Gavriel ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Digital human modeling; Multimodal feedback; Physical ergonomics; Virtual reality; Work evaluation

Indexed keywords

BODY PARTS; CAPACITY REDUCTION; DIGITAL HUMAN MODELING; ERGONOMIC EVALUATION; FOUR-GROUP; MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES; MANUFACTURING WORKERS; MULTIMODAL FEEDBACK; PERCEIVED EXERTION; REAL ENVIRONMENTS; TACTILE FEEDBACK; TASK COMPLETION TIME; TASK DIFFICULTY; TREATMENT GROUP; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS; VIRTUAL REALITY SIMULATIONS; WORK DESIGN; WORK EVALUATION;

JOB ANALYSIS; RATING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ERGONOMICS;

EID: 84857238356     PISSN: 10908471     EISSN: 15206564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hfm.20293     Document Type: Article

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