%0 Journal Article
%T Analysis of Hand Anthropometric Dimensions of Male Industrial Workers of Haryana State
%A Arunesh Chandra
%A Suinder Deswal
%A Pankaj Chandna
%J International Journal of Engineering
%D 2011
%I Computer Science Journals
%X The purpose of this paper is to analyse the thirty-seven hand anthropometric characteristics ofthe industrial worker of the Haryana state. A survey of convenience sample of eight hundred andseventy eight male industrial workers was conducted in the year 2009. Paper contains data fromall the four divisions of Haryana state of India and from the five age groups. Minimum, maximum,mean, standard deviation, skewness, coefficient of variation, 5th, 50th, and 95th percentile for eachhand anthropometric dimension were calculated for the entire state. The normality assumptionwas evaluated for each hand dimension, separately. It was found that in most hand dimensionsthere were differences between five age groups. Additionally, the statistical analysis was carriedout to correlate various hand dimensions and to obtain prediction equation between differentvariables. It has been found that most of the hand dimensions are correlated significantly witheach other. The data gathered may be used for the design of hand tools, gloves, machine accessspaces and hand-held devices and for selection of hand tools for use by Industrial workerworking in the Haryana state of India.
%K Hand Anthropometric Measurements
%K Industrial Worker
%K Hand Tools
%K Prediction Equation
%U http://cscjournals.org/csc/manuscript/Journals/IJE/volume5/Issue3/IJE-286.pdf