Two experiments were conducted to measure the effect of glove size and material on task performance. The first experiment tested the glove size and material effects on a maximum torque exertion task while the second experiment tested the glove size and material effect on a small parts assembly task. The results of the first experiment showed that for the maximum exertion task, the glove size had no significant effect while the glove material did have a significant effect. For the assembly task the results indicated that glove size and material combination may be important to performance.
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