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The Modeling of the Interaction of the Human Hand with Products
Medland, Anthony John; Matthews, Jason
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Year:
2009
Editor:
Norell Bergendahl, M.; Grimheden, M.; Leifer, L.; Skogstad, P.; Lindemann, U.
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Series:
ICED
Section:
Human Behavior in Design
Page(s):
47-56
Abstract:
Many products are designed to be hand operated in use. These extend from industrial machine tools to domestic appliances. In these the designer has to rely upon experience and ergonomic guidelines to ensure that the final product is comfortable, usable and not dangerous when in use. In order to aid in this problem a computer-based manikin has been created to investigate the posture of humans, which now incorporates the movements of the hand.This creates a number of difficulties, which extend from the large number of degrees of freedom to those of redundancy and interaction.In representing such hand movements within a modelling environment it is necessary to firstly understand the natural motions and to then represent then in a realistic manner. Whilst some of the responses are required to form contact with surfaces, to affect a grip or reaction, others are the responses arising from the interaction between the fingers. Other more complex actions require both combinations and sequences of grip actions to achieve the desired use, such as occurs when a manually powered wheel chair is in use.
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