A Preliminary Study on Effects of Vision, Standing Posture and Support Surface on Human Balance

Shu-ping Xiong () and Mubashir Karim
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Shu-ping Xiong: Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Mubashir Karim: Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology

Chapter Chapter 87 in Proceedings of 2012 3rd International Asia Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management Innovation (IEMI2012), 2013, pp 873-880 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract A preliminary experimental study on examining the effects of vision, standing posture and support surface on human balance was conducted. Planar deviation (PD), a parameter derived from recordings of center of pressure (CoP) with the aid of a static force platform, was used to assess the body sway and thereby human balance. The experimental results showed that PD had moderate to high short-term test-retest reliability and all main effects from three factors were significant, all interaction effects were not significant except the vision*support surface. The implications of these findings and future research directions were discussed.

Keywords: Human balance; Center of pressure; Fall risk; Reliability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33012-4_87

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