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Tactile sensitivity of gloved hands in the cold operation

In English

Författare

  • Qiuqing Geng
  • Kalev Kuklane
  • Ingvar Holmér

Summary, in English

In this study, tactile sensitivity of gloved hand in the cold operation has been investigated. The relations among physical properties of protective gloves and hand tactile sensitivity and cold protection were also analysed both objectively and subjectively. Subjects with various gloves participated in the experimental study during cold exposure at different ambient temperatures of -12°C and -25°C. Tactual performance was measured using an identification task with various sizes of objects over the percentage of misjudgment. Forearm, hand and finger skin temperatures were also recorded throughout. The experimental data were analysed using analysis of variance (ANOVA) model and the Tukey's multiple range test. The results obtained indicated that the tactual performance was affected both by gloves and by hands/fingers cooling. Effect of object size on the tactile discrimination was significant and the misjudgment increased when similar sizes of objects were identified, especially at -25°C.

Publiceringsår

1997

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

229-236

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Physiological Anthropology Applied Human Science

Volym

16

Issue

6

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

BioMed Central (BMC)

Ämne

  • Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Thermal Environment Laboratory

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1345-3475