Accession Number:

ADA289405

Title:

Gloved Operator Performance Study. The Effects of Hand Wear and Elastic Resistance of a Control During Tracking Performance.

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.,

Corporate Author:

ARMY RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD

Personal Author(s):

• Anderson, Glen
• Berkhout, Jan
• Granaas, Michael
• Canakapalli, Sri

Report Date:

1994-05-01

Pagination or Media Count:

64.0

Abstract:

This study was to test the effects of wearing gloves during tracking performance at different levels of elastic resistance in a control. Forty-eight undergraduate students served as subjects. Each group contained 16 subjects, one group for each level of control resistance. The control was a spring-centered displacement joystick with resistance settings of 0,12 and 1702. All subjects performed a compensatory tracking task both bare-handed and while wearing a leather and wool glove assembly. Results indicated that a wearing gloves is detrimental to tracking performance for female subjects, b female subjects do not benefit from additional exposure to the task before performing the task with gloves as do male subjects, c high control resistance may have been beneficial for female subjects during the gloved condition, and d small handed female subjects do not perform as well as medium and large handed female subjects, nor as well as male subjects.

Descriptors:

• *PERFORMANCE(HUMAN)
• *GLOVES
• *HANDS
• CONTROL
• ELASTIC PROPERTIES
• TRACKING
• HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING
• WEAR
• EXPOSURE(PHYSIOLOGY)
• COMPENSATION
• OPERATORS(PERSONNEL)
• LEATHER
• WOOLEN TEXTILES
• PSYCHOMOTOR TESTS

Subject Categories:

• Psychology
• Human Factors Engineering and Man Machine Systems

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE