Hand dimensions and measurements
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The anthropometric hand dimensions must be taken into consideration while designing the hand-hold device in order to develop a user-friendly design. Anthropometric landmarks are frequently used to create standard hand measurements. However, it was discovered that while anthropometric markers vary throughout research, the terminology employed to describe a particular hand dimension was often similar. This made comparison and subsequent study impossible. As a result, the aim of this investigation was to gather information on hand size measurements made both in Thailand and internationally. The information can be used as a standard in reference to the landmark of hand size measurement. Research publications published between 1993 and 2022 in the PUBMED, Google Scholar, and Scopus databases were examined. The results of the study found 45 articles with detailed measurement of dimensions and measurement equipment. The following major groups were investigated: 1) labor 2) adult, and 3) elderly. Each study's goal for determining the size was different, such as surveying the proportion of the hands of the sample group to be utilized as a database. Some were used for nationality comparison. It was also found that the hand measurements were used to estimate or analyze associations with gender, height, grip strength etc. Furthermore, the hand size and dimensions were studied to address the problem of hand when using various devices. Most studies were measured in accordance with the ISO 7250-1 standard (Basic human body measurements for technological design Part 1: Body measurement definitions and landmarks), which has 11 hand dimensions. However, there was a total of 86 dimensions discovered in all articles in this study. It is categorized into five primary groups: 1) 37 length measurements 2) 22 width and spread measurements 3) 13 depth measurements 4) 11 hand circumference and 5) 3 Grip diameter (inside), and the definitions and positions of each dimension's measurement were clearly defined in this article. The benefit of this was to serve as a standard reference for hand measurements for those who are interested.
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