The effect of dynamic workstations on the performance of various computer and office-based tasks

Conference Paper (2013)
Author(s)

Eva Maria Burford (German Social Accident Insurance)

Juliane Botter (German Social Accident Insurance)

Dianne Commissaris (TNO)

Reinier Könemann (TNO)

Suzanne Hiemstra-Van Mastrigt (TNO)

Rolf Peter Ellegast (German Social Accident Insurance)

DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39182-8_24 Final published version
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Publication Year
2013
Language
English
Pages (from-to)
205-212
ISBN (print)
9783642391811
Event
4th Int. Conf. on Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics, and Risk Management: Human Body Modeling and Ergonomics, DHM 2013, Held as Part of 15th Int. Conf. on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI 2013 (2013-07-21 - 2013-07-26), Las Vegas, NV, United States
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Abstract

The effect of different workstations, conventional and dynamic, on different types of performance measures for several different office and computer based task was investigated in this research paper. The two dynamic workstations assessed were the Lifespan Treadmill Desk and the RightAngle LifeBalance Station, and the two conventional workstations assessed were a seated and a standing workstation. Through a randomized repeated measures design, the effect of these different workstations was assessed for a series of tasks consisting of a reading, typing, telephone, mouse dexterity task and a battery of computer-based cognitive tasks. Hypothesized was that the use of these dynamic workstations would have different effects on the performance measures for the different types of tasks.