Showing papers in "Applied Ergonomics in 2017"

TL;DR: The results showed that the multimodal TORs yielded statistically significantly faster steer-touch times than the unimodal vibrotactile TOR, while no statistically significant differences were observed for brake times and lane change times.

TL;DR: The results show that the corrected Kinect data can provide more accurate RULA grand scores, even under sub-optimal conditions induced by the workplace environment.

TL;DR: Overall, the study results confirm the effectiveness of the new virtual reality technology for research on full motion tasks and indicate that participant behavior in VR matches published real world norms.

TL;DR: Analysis of three environmental-simulation display formats shows that 360° panoramas offer the closest to reality results according to the participants' psychological responses, and virtual reality according toThe physiological responses.

TL;DR: The results show that the LASSO model performed well for both physical fatigue detection and modeling, and is not participant and/or workload regime specific and thus can be adopted for other applications.

TL;DR: The majority of employees do not tend to consider safety rules, regulation, procedures and norms in their behavior at the workplace, and it was determined that instantaneous improvement of supporting environment and employee participation is the best strategy to reach a high proportion of safety behavior atThe workplace.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the prevalence of musculoskeletal complaints among mobile device users ranges from 1.0% to 67.8% and neck complaints have the highest prevalence rates, and inconclusive evidence is shown for other risk factors such as duration of use and human-device interaction techniques due to inconsistent results or a limited number of studies.

TL;DR: A low-cost ubiquitous approach is presented and validated which deploys built-in smartphone sensors to unobtrusively monitor workers' bodily postures and autonomously identify potential work-related ergonomic risks and indicates that measurements of trunk and shoulder flexions of a worker by smartphone sensory data are very close to corresponding measurements by observation.

TL;DR: K2RULA, a semi-automatic RULA evaluation software based on the Microsoft Kinect v2 depth camera, aimed at detecting awkward postures in real time, but also in off-line analysis, is presented.

TL;DR: The results imply mostly short-term effects, and to a lesser extent, long- term effects on musculoskeletal disorders in neck and upper extremities.

TL;DR: Intraoperative microbreaks with exercises in a non-crossover design may be a way to mitigate work-related musculoskeletal fatigue, pain and injury.

TL;DR: It remains inconclusive whether or not the exergame-based intervention for the elderly fall prevention is superior to conventional physical therapy and the effect mechanism of the exergaming on elderly's balance ability is still unclear.

TL;DR: The origins of Accimap are described followed by a review of 27 studies which have applied and adapted Accimaps over the period 2000-2015 to a range of domains and types of accident.

TL;DR: Observers are able to reproduce the layout of a situation quickly, but the assessment of relative speeds takes 20 s or more, which is consistent with the notion that participants first estimated the spatial pattern of cars after which they directed their attention to individual cars.

TL;DR: It was found that, as work environments became more shared, not only were there increases in demands, but co-worker friendships were not improved and perceptions of supervisory support decreased.

TL;DR: An artificial neural network (ANN) model was developed in the present study to classify the level of a driver's cognitive workload based on electrocardiography (ECG) and the accuracy of the ANN classification model was found satisfactory for learning data and testing data.

TL;DR: Weak evidence exists supporting job rotation as a strategy for the prevention and control of musculoskeletal disorders and more rigorous studies are needed to better understand the full impact of job rotation on production and health.

TL;DR: This paper examines driving research from this new perspective, and argues for the need for an updated understanding of how drivers acquire information about their operating environment using peripheral vision.

TL;DR: An exploratory approach was chosen to extract a large number of rhythmical and morphological features from the ECG signal thereby identifying those which differentiated best between the levels of mental workload.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the usability of four home-based telemedicine software platforms: Doxy.me, Vidyo, VSee, and Polycom.

TL;DR: It is shown that as subjects' subjective discomfort increases, the frequency of subjects' seat fidgets and movements increases congruently, and a large correlation is observed between the subjective and objective measures of driver discomfort.

TL;DR: These warnings were found to be effective even when talking on a cell phone or driving in dense traffic, and produced higher ratings of urgency, but ratings of frustration did not increase compared to other warnings.

TL;DR: It is found the display type significantly affected both perceptual and behavioural measures whereas FOV only affected behavioural measures, which could guide future Virtual Reality simulator designers to evoke targeted user behaviours and perceptions.

TL;DR: This review synthesises evidence of the extent and impacts of multi-tasking on efficiency and task performance from health and non-healthcare literature, to compare and contrast approaches, identify implications for clinical work, and to develop an evidence-informed framework for guiding the measurement ofMulti-Tasking in future healthcare studies.

TL;DR: Results show that features which clearly negate the exit-message of the original positive exit signage are most effective, for instance a red X-marking placed across the entirety of the exit signage conveys a clear dissuasive message.

TL;DR: The importance of developing usable domain specific tools to support translation of Ergonomics theory and methods in practice is discussed, with an in-depth Accimap-based analysis of all incidents reported by participating organisations over the 3 month period.

TL;DR: The link between postural instability and cybersickness is a weak one in the present experiment and the offset direction of perceived vertical settings matched the direction of the tunnel's rotation, so replicating earlier findings.

TL;DR: This paper describes the use of Rasmussen's ideas in safety modeling and analysis to create a new, more powerful type of accident causation model that extends traditional models to better handle human-operated, software-intensive, sociotechnical systems.

TL;DR: A meta-analysis of 27 UAV swarm management papers focused on human-system interface and human factors concerns is presented in this article, providing an overview of the advantages, challenges and limitations of current UAV management interfaces, as well as information on how these interfaces are currently evaluated.

TL;DR: Tests confirmed the beneficial effects of the cooling system used on mean weighted skin temperature, the physical parameters of the microclimate under the clothing, and the participants' subjective assessments, as well as confirmed that the functioning of the control system regulating liquid temperature in the LCG was correct.