Effects of Sitting and Standing Work Postures on Short-Term Typing Performance and Discomfort
| Autor: | Gourab Kar, Alan Hedge |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
05 social sciences Work (physics) Repeated measures design Sitting Term (time) Medical Terminology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Physical therapy medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 030212 general & internal medicine Psychology 050107 human factors Medical Assisting and Transcription |
| Zdroj: | Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting. 60:460-464 |
| ISSN: | 1071-1813 2169-5067 |
| Popis: | The study evaluated effects of sitting and standing work postures on objective short-term computer typing performance and perceived discomfort. A randomized, repeated measures, study design was used to assess typing performance and perceived discomfort for 12 participants on a 15-minute computer-typing task. Typing performance was measured by number of characters typed and number of errors. Perceived discomfort was measured for the whole body, as well as for upper body and lower body, using a visual analog scale. Results suggest that for a short-term computer typing task, compared to a sitting work posture a standing work posture leads to fewer typing errors without impacting typing speed. Overall levels of perceived discomfort for the whole body are similar for sitting and standing work postures. However, for perceived discomfort there is an interaction of work posture and body region - upper body discomfort is higher in the sitting work posture while lower body discomfort is higher in the standing work posture. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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