TY - GEN
T1 - Convergent validity of an application for hand anthropometric measurement
AU - Massiris, Manlio
AU - Maestre-Meyer, Marla
AU - Niebles, Rita Penabaena
AU - Oviedo-Trespalacios, Oscar
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - There is a need to know the anthropometric parameters of each population to improve the ergonomic design of tools, workstations and personal protective equipment. In their regular work, humans use their hands to develop their activities, and the required equipment should match with the physical dimensions of the workers. The traditional manual method for measuring takes a long time because of the number of measures and the training of the measurer, who has to first learn how to take each measure, which is why the objective of the software is to diminish the time employed in the taking of the data by systemizing the process. This paper shows a compilation of 25 hand anthropometric measurements from a sample of 41 subjects from the Colombian Caribbean Coast. To take the measures, software was developed and validated with manually taken measures using the t-test for each dimension. The results showed that there was no significant difference between the two methods, which proves the precision of the software. The gather of more data employing the software may represent a reliable normative data set of the hand measurements.
AB - There is a need to know the anthropometric parameters of each population to improve the ergonomic design of tools, workstations and personal protective equipment. In their regular work, humans use their hands to develop their activities, and the required equipment should match with the physical dimensions of the workers. The traditional manual method for measuring takes a long time because of the number of measures and the training of the measurer, who has to first learn how to take each measure, which is why the objective of the software is to diminish the time employed in the taking of the data by systemizing the process. This paper shows a compilation of 25 hand anthropometric measurements from a sample of 41 subjects from the Colombian Caribbean Coast. To take the measures, software was developed and validated with manually taken measures using the t-test for each dimension. The results showed that there was no significant difference between the two methods, which proves the precision of the software. The gather of more data employing the software may represent a reliable normative data set of the hand measurements.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84906891502&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/BHI.2014.6864300
DO - 10.1109/BHI.2014.6864300
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84906891502
SN - 9781479921317
T3 - 2014 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, BHI 2014
SP - 45
EP - 48
BT - 2014 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, BHI 2014
PB - IEEE
T2 - 2014 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, BHI 2014
Y2 - 1 June 2014 through 4 June 2014
ER -