A significant part of manual work is still done using hand-tools. Therefore, a correct design is
crucial for preventing upper-extremity musculoskeletal disorders, such as carpal tunnel …

The kinematic analysis of human grasping is challenging because of the high number of
degrees of freedom involved. The use of principal component and factorial analyses is …

This chapter provides fundamentals and a summary of recent relevant literature of interest
back to a human factors and ergonomics audience. Digital Human Modeling can be …

One of the main features of the human hand is its grasping ability. Robot grasping has been
studied for years and different quality measures have been proposed to evaluate the stability …

Tasks that require the cooperation of both hands and arms are common in human everyday
life. Coordination helps to synchronize in space and temporally motion of the upper limbs. In …

Human digital modeling can be considered a digital representation of the human inserted
into a simulation or virtual environment to facilitate prediction of safety and/or performance …

The purpose of this paper is to analyze in some depth the kinematic behaviour of the human
hand, in order to obtain simplified human hand models with the minimum and optimal …

Tool-handle design research has been previously limited to determination of diameters of
cylindrical handles to increase performance, comfort and avoid acute and cumulative …

nowadays, fingers movement and hand gestures can be used as main activities in
translating by naturally and convenient way to the human computer interaction. The purpose …

In this chapter, a review of the literature regarding biomechanical and ergonomics hand
models is presented. The current knowledge on hand models is used to draw out the rules …