Existing references to human strength capabilities and to manual control design provide relatively little information pertaining to the effects of interindividual differences in strength on accuracy of control inputs. In an effort to address that void, a review of the existing journal literature was undertaken. The results yielded little relevant research in spite of the fact that known strength-related factors are strongly expected to have performance-related implications.
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