Proposal of a new quantitative method for postural comfort evaluation

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

Volumn 48, Issue , 2015, Pages 25-35

  Naddeo, A ^a   Cappetti, N ^a   D'Oria, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Comfort evaluation; Ergonomics; Industrial design; Postural analysis

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; DESIGN; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES; COMFORT EVALUATION; HUMAN MACHINE INTERFACE; PASSENGER COMPARTMENT; POSTURAL ANALYSIS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION;

ERGONOMICS;

ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; COMFORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDUSTRY; JOINT FUNCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NECK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANGE OF MOTION; SHOULDER; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WRIST;

EID: 84927537480     PISSN: 01698141     EISSN: 18728219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ergon.2015.03.008     Document Type: Article

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