Showing papers in "International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics in 2016"

TL;DR: In this paper, a wearable wireless system capable of assessing the muscular efforts and postures of the human upper limb for WMSD diagnosis is proposed, which can be used to monitor workers in ecologic environment while they are carrying on their everyday tasks.

TL;DR: The results support the notion that the authors cannot assess product design just by several eye-movement indexes without considering the effects of visual attention mechanism.

TL;DR: In this paper, an integrated steel plant located in central India where most of the crane operator was continuously suffering from muscular pain in different body parts was identified by detailed questionnaire from 27 crane operator.

TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical framework for measuring mental workload using a combination of analytical and empirical techniques was presented, along with physiological, subjective, and performance measures to evaluate operator mental workload utilization in the manufacturing domain.

TL;DR: A Takagi-Sugeno type fuzzy inference system is developed in this article to overcome traditional quantitative approaches to assess risk levels and to identify adequate preventive measures in construction industries.

TL;DR: In this article, a study focused on identifying the unique interaction experiences of visually impaired people when they use a camera application on a smartphone, and relevant implications for designing assistive technologies were analyzed.

TL;DR: Among the general working population, the algorithm was able to identify workers that had reported work-related musculoskeletal complaints in the last twelve months and is able to overcome the limitations of other traditional statistical learning techniques to predict this type of disorder with accuracy and effectiveness.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors combined the ergonomic technology used in Kansei engineering with the unique cognitive ability of humans to identify patterns and establish an emotional perception model that can integrate the overall interrelations of the constituent elements.

TL;DR: Results show that SONEX accurately predicts possible WRMSD risks and identifies ergonomic shortcomings, and it offers preventive suggestions for ergonomic improvements to the job to prevent WRMSDs.

TL;DR: The results suggest that generally operator experience had effects on several task components and complexity dimensions only in abnormal/emergency situations, and interface management complexity factors had marginally higher frequency, but significantly lower complexity and impact in digital MCRs.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review was performed to summarize and analyze the studies investigating the effect of job rotation and work-rest schemes, as well as, work pace, cycle time and duty cycle, on upper limb muscle fatigue.

TL;DR: The results showed that elderly users and those with longer thumbs are likely to leave more unreachable space at the right side and bottom of touchscreens and the thumb-coverage area actually increased when the touchscreen size was increased.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated maritime accident reports regarding fire and explosion (F&E) events that occurred between 1999 and 2013 in tankers transporting hazardous liquid cargoes and found that the most significant causes of F&E accidents are hot work, electric arcs, static electricity, and combustible gas accumulation in the cargo tank.

TL;DR: It is shown that tilting the head in the centripetal direction reduces the estimated motion sickness incidence (MSI), defined as the percentage of subjects who vomited.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of lumbar support on vehicle seat comfort was investigated by using a finite element model to analyze the interaction between body and seat under the action of gravity.

TL;DR: Data confirm that paramedic work is a mix of prolonged sedentary time (on alert waiting for a call), interspersed with bouts of high physical demand exposures (when attending to a call).

TL;DR: The results show that education and recommendations to use safe working postures, techniques and organization of work with a chainsaw should still be improved, as well as the prevalence of MSD symptoms among loggers in Poland.

TL;DR: In this paper, a maintenance space evaluation method that considers ergonomics is proposed by comparing free swept volumes and constrained swept volumes in a virtual environment, maintenance space could be evaluated quantitatively and objectively.

TL;DR: There were significant correlation between ERPs and behavioural data, participants devoted more attention and had faster responding time to preferred products than to nonpreferred, indicating that the differences of ERPs can be used to evaluate user preference.

TL;DR: The subjective survey showed that wearing respirators and walking had a direct effect on improving the subjective overall breathing resistance, which is in support of issuing new regulations to raise the limit for breathing resistance over short periods at low-moderate exertion tasks.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the central role of human factors as an enabler of cloud manufacturing, and the opportunities that emerge from such enablers, and discuss the issues of collaboration that are likely to arise from the manufacturing cloud.

TL;DR: Kim et al. as mentioned in this paper measured 21 hand dimensions including length, breadth, and circumference of the hand and compared the difference of measurement values and the relation between hand measurements and heights.

TL;DR: In this article, an active cab suspension system fitted on a telehandler was investigated in reducing whole body vibration (WBV) and in improving comfort, and the results indicated that the operators, given their wide range of physical variability, may need more adjustable or customizable WBV reduction systems.

TL;DR: In this paper, a survey was conducted to collect anthropometric dimensions of male agricultural workers in the state of Maharashtra in India in the age group of 18-60 years, almost 59 body dimensions were selected for the measurement from the recommendations by All India Coordinated Research Project (AICRP) on Human Engineering and Safety in Agriculture (HESA) and required by digital human manikin modeling.

TL;DR: A neural network based approach to modeling consumers' affective responses for product form design suggests that the combined use of various models of individual users can perform as well as a single model generated on the basis of mean market responses.

TL;DR: In this article, a set of 17 static anthropometric measures (8 and 9 dimensions in standing and sitting positions respectively) was measured for each participant and the redesign of workplace of roof tile industries in Indonesia was discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the association between objective and subjective assessments of environmental ergonomic factors including noise, lighting and heat were conducted in a field study in three manufacturing plants, where data were collected from 130 workstations using questionnaire and physical measurements of the noise (noise dosimetry), lighting (task area illuminance) and heat (wet bulb globe temperature).

TL;DR: Eye metrics measurement for online workload assessment enhances better identification of workload-inducing scenarios and adopted strategy for traffic management, and system design and operators training programs might benefit from on line workload measurement.

TL;DR: Gender and age were both significant predictors of symptoms, and age predicted healthcare utilization, which are relevant to the grocery industry in order to target WMSD preventive interventions to specific body regions for high-risk activities within a grocery store position.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the frequency and types of situation awareness transactions in two groups of teams and found that the more effective teams had a higher frequency of overall communications and, more importantly, a higher number of relevant situation awareness transaction types compared to less effective teams.