The pathology of everyday things - Stairways - Revisted

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 580-584

  Pauls, Jake ^a  

^a Independent Consultant ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACRO-ERGONOMICS; MICRO AND MACRO; STANDARDS AND CODES;

PATHOLOGY;

ERGONOMICS;

EID: 84889812690     PISSN: 10711813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1177/1541931213571124     Document Type: Conference Paper

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