Relationships of contact pressure with subjective experiences of comfort and discomfort in using hand saws
conference paper
The relationships of objective measurements (contact pressure and productivity) with subjective experienced comfort and discomfort in using hand saws was examined. Professional carpenters evaluated five different hand saws. The pressure-time integral during the static pressure measurement (beta = –0.24, p<.01) was highly related to comfort and the pressure area during static pressure measurement was highly related to local perceived discomfort (beta = 0.45, p<.01). Additionally, productivity was highly correlated to comfort (beta=0.31, p<.01) and discomfort (beta –0.49, p<.01). It was concluded that static contact pressure measurement can be used to support subjective measured comfort and discomfort. An increase of productivity can be an argument to design comfortable hand tools.
TNO Identifier
526578
ISBN
8299574714
Publisher
Nordic Eronomics Society (NES) ; Norsk Eronomiforening (NEF)
Source title
NES 2005 Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference on Ergonomics as a tool in Future Development and Value Creation, 10-12 October 2005, Oslo, Norway
Editor(s)
Veiersted, B.
Fostervold, K.I.
Gould, K.S.
Fostervold, K.I.
Gould, K.S.
Place of publication
Oslo
Pages
299-303
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