Documenting the Temporal Pattern of Fatigue Development

IISE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors

Volumn 5, Issue 3-4, 2017, Pages 115-135

  Yung, Marcus ^a   Wells, Richard P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

central and peripheral fatigue; light precision task; Neuromuscular fatigue; workplace measure ment

Indexed keywords

EID: 85109321308     PISSN: 24725838     EISSN: 24725846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/24725838.2017.1373714     Document Type: Article

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