Temporal strategy and performance during a fatiguing short-cycle repetitive task

Ergonomics

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 863-873

  Bosch, T ^a,b,c   Mathiassen, S E ^c   Hallman, D ^c   de Looze, M P ^a,b,d   Lyskov, E ^c   Visser, B ^d,e   van Dieen J H ^b,d  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b Body Work   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

EMG; fatigue; performance; repetitive work; temporal movement strategy

Indexed keywords

EMG; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; PERFORMANCE; REACHING MOVEMENTS; REPETITIVE TASK; REPETITIVE WORKS; SUBJECTIVE RATING; SUSTAINED PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CHANGE; TEMPORAL MOVEMENT STRATEGY; TIMING ERRORS; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; WAITING-TIME;

COMPETITION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS;

ERRORS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; HUMAN; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84864564945     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140139.2012.682739     Document Type: Article

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