Assessing the ability of a vr-based assembly task simulation to evaluate physicalrisk factors

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 664-674

  Pontonnier, Charles ^a   Samani, Afshin ^b   Badawi, Marwan ^c   Madeleine, Pascal ^a   Dumont, Georges ^a  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

Author keywords

assembly task; emg; ergonomics; Fidelity; motion capture; user study

Indexed keywords

MOCKUPS; MUSCLE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ASSEMBLY TASKS; EMG; FIDELITY; MOTION CAPTURE; USER STUDY;

ERGONOMICS;

EID: 84897086277     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2013.252     Document Type: Article

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