{"title":"Applications of Haptic Devices & Virtual Reality in Consumer Products Usability Evaluation","authors":"C. Falcão, Marcelo M. Soares","doi":"10.54941/ahfe100804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe100804","url":null,"abstract":"Usability has come to play an important role in interface design. Product usability focus on product ease of use first and foremost with consideration to users demographics, experience level and user requirements to serve the population efficiently. Virtual reality technologies provide novel and enhanced modes of human computer interaction that can be used as a potential tool to support product usability testing in far more efficient way starting from early project stage. The interaction component of this high-end user interface involves multiple sensory channels, such as the visual, auditory, haptic, olfactory, and taste inputs. Significant research has been done in this area but researchers have not yet provided an assessment on the relative impacts on VR systems development. Haptic devices allow users to touch, feel and manipulate three-dimensional objects in virtual environments and this technology started to get worldwide recognition and use in manipulation-intensive applications. Although the applications of haptic devices have several advantages over other methods for the development of consumer products, the VR systems also have some limitations; this is partly due to the complexity of interaction devices and haptic feedback processing. This paper presents a conceptual approach to haptic feedback for product design and consumer products usability evaluation.","PeriodicalId":389707,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Ergonomics In Design, Usability and Special Populations: Part I","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122416137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Virtual Fitting Based on 3D Human Body Measurement Software Research and Application","authors":"Huang Shouzhong, Zhou Xiang","doi":"10.54941/ahfe100796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe100796","url":null,"abstract":"This article expounds the barriers in the development of intelligent fitting system, which focuses on the correlation between body database and of intelligent fitting system. How can the system estimate the suitability based on the deformation under constraint of human body and clothing material. The data collection adopted a non-touching 3D anthropometric method by taking pictures of front, back and side of a human body in a background with scale, marking several feature points of important body parts, calculating and speculating these feature points to get the corresponding data of human body, and setting up an anthropometry database to simulate the corresponding virtual 3D body model in the software. And this article focuses the analysis and application of 3D anthropometric data in the intelligent fitting system of female skirt.","PeriodicalId":389707,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Ergonomics In Design, Usability and Special Populations: Part I","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129755882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michal Hovaneca, Teodor Tóthb, Viktória Rajťúkováb, Hana Pačaiováa, Jozef Živčákb
{"title":"Application of 3D Full Body Scanners in Ergonomics","authors":"Michal Hovaneca, Teodor Tóthb, Viktória Rajťúkováb, Hana Pačaiováa, Jozef Živčákb","doi":"10.54941/ahfe100814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe100814","url":null,"abstract":"The submitted study deals with the optimization of a work system with consideration of generic processes in work environments. For the purpose of identifying the resulting quality of a workplace, the structure of an ergonomic program was created on the basis of a digital factory, and a knowledge database was created for the criteria and parameters of ergonomic evaluation of work systems influencing their quality. On the basis of an analysis of the present state of the application of ergonomics, an ergonomic workplace was implemented for the purpose of increasing the quality of the work environment. The application of a work environment design was used in a selected workplace dealing with courier services. With use of the Tecnomatix program the workplace took on a digital form, which consisted of a 3D scanning of the work environment, a 3D whole-body scanning of the workers, the modelling of the work environment in the Plant SIMULATION module and the application of the obtained data itself in the Tecnomatix Jack program. It is possible to anticipate or to limit many problems by observing work regulations. One of the possibilities is the creation of an electronic database of employees which offers input data for the simulation of a specific work position.","PeriodicalId":389707,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Ergonomics In Design, Usability and Special Populations: Part I","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126411507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Márcio F. Catapan ab, Maria Lucia Okimoto b, Mateus Villas Boas c, Roberto Waldhauer c
{"title":"Anthropometric Analysis of Human Head to Identification of Height in Proper Use of Ballistic Helmets","authors":"Márcio F. Catapan ab, Maria Lucia Okimoto b, Mateus Villas Boas c, Roberto Waldhauer c","doi":"10.54941/ahfe100830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe100830","url":null,"abstract":"Studies of the physical characteristics of man and their dimensional variations have interested researchers since antiquity. In relating to the human head, the measures that are analyzed to make your sizing artifacts that protect her from possible accidents, are tied just as its circumference. In the military area, studies report that approximately half of the deaths in the battle fields is due to projectiles triggered in the soldier's head. However, other studies show that this artifact after a few minutes in continuous use, it becomes heavy and unstable for many users. Ie, proves itself that some soldiers do not wear a helmet when necessary is because it bothers them. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to research the height of the human head, in area the ballistic helmet, to verify whether this is significant or not height variation. Thus, it can be highlighted the need for a new ballistic helmet design to serve this dimensional variation of the height of the human head. For it is made a pilot survey and analyzed the anthropometric measurements of the human head using conventional instruments. Next analyzed the values and found that the means are different, proving that if the artifact of study is not adequate for use on the battlefield for all users.","PeriodicalId":389707,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Ergonomics In Design, Usability and Special Populations: Part I","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115517389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sara Albolino a, Francesco Ranzani a, Rossana Casini b, Bassam Dannaoui b
{"title":"Creating an Ergonomic Solution for Avoiding Errors in Blood Transfusion","authors":"Sara Albolino a, Francesco Ranzani a, Rossana Casini b, Bassam Dannaoui b","doi":"10.54941/ahfe100827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe100827","url":null,"abstract":"The Centre for Patient Safety of the Tuscany Region designs solutions for preventing adverse events in the 39 hospitals and 14 local trusts of the regional healthcare system. One of the most important risks in terms of consequences is the error in blood transfusion. The Centre for Patient Safety adopted an ergonomic approach centered on human factor in order to define the best solutions for clinicians. Thus, the definition of a patient safety practice on blood transfusion has been realized starting from: the analysis of the adverse events happened in the Tuscany healthcare system in the last year about this topic; the analysis of the main phases of the process and of the related potential risks, the analysis of the interaction among the clinicians and their working context. According to this analysis we produced some tools for supporting the promotion of a safer blood transfusion process: a check list with a design that can facilitate the support to the decision making process related to the transfusion; an algorithm that visualizes the most important actions to take to avoid errors during the transfusion; a poster to remind the key controls at the bedside; a patient's identification procedure based on wristbands which layout help an active identification of the patient;. All the tools have been designed with the final users and tested.The authors will present the tools and results about their application in one of the most complex teaching hospital of the Region.","PeriodicalId":389707,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Ergonomics In Design, Usability and Special Populations: Part I","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128616831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mahrus Khoirul Umamiab, Pedro M. Arezesa, Alvaro M. Sampaioc
{"title":"Hand Anthropometry and Its Application to Design","authors":"Mahrus Khoirul Umamiab, Pedro M. Arezesa, Alvaro M. Sampaioc","doi":"10.54941/ahfe100793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe100793","url":null,"abstract":"This study presents a literature review and a comparison of selected hand anthropometric studies of many populations. The main purpose of this study is to determine the measurements and variables that need to be included in a study of hand for Portuguese population. The comparison and review were performed with studies selected from publications that were found in a literature search performed on Scopus and Google Scholar databases. The considered studies have an evident consideration for the design of hand tools and hand-held devices in the aims of the study and report data collected later than 1990. The review was performed by identifying the measurement included in each study and by comparing their aims and methods. Each study involved a different number of hand measures. Each study had their own reasons for the selection of the hand anthropometric measures involved. However, it can be generally concluded that the studies selected the measures based on a few criteria. The included studies involved a range of 8 to 51 different hand dimensions. The hand dimensions that were considered in at least five different studies were identified.","PeriodicalId":389707,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Ergonomics In Design, Usability and Special Populations: Part I","volume":"02 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127189940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ColorErg - Color Ergonomics in Fashion Design","authors":"F. Moreira da Silva","doi":"10.54941/ahfe100772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe100772","url":null,"abstract":"We all have a personal relationship with Color. Often we give ourselves an instinctive color treatment, just by choosing clothing of a particular color, or putting around us certain colors in our homes or gardens. Most of our reactions are, however, unaware and it is only when we begin to use color in an informed way that we can take advantage of this extraordinary life force in order to improve the quality of life and our well-being. The colors we use can provide protection against many physical ailments as well as can give us emotional inspiration. Obviously the clothes also protect us from the elements, being a form of personal expression, protecting us from the world around us and affecting the way we feel and think. ColorErg is a research project which aims to study physical, physiological and psychological color effects, in its interaction with human beings through clothing, underlining the importance of color ergonomics. The main objectives focus on the acquisition of scientific knowledge in the area serving as a projective tool for fashion designers, as well as to contribute, through the dissemination of its results, as a reference to the use of color to users in general.","PeriodicalId":389707,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Ergonomics In Design, Usability and Special Populations: Part I","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130684037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Charles Ricardo Leite da Silva a, Gabriela Sousa Ribeiro b
{"title":"Ergonomic Evaluation as a Holistic Evaluation in Company Assembly Hydrometers","authors":"Charles Ricardo Leite da Silva a, Gabriela Sousa Ribeiro b","doi":"10.54941/ahfe100798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe100798","url":null,"abstract":"The manual assembly equipment has been cited as one exposed to several ergonomic constraints, such fractionation is associated with the task of occupation, facilitating the monotony and high number of repetitive movements that may cause occupational diseases of physical and psychological harm. Seeking to adapt the work to the characteristics and skills of professionals in the assembly of the sector totals, ergonomic intervention System Human-Machine Task was performed in an industry located in Recife-PE assembly of water meters, comprising the steps of Ergonomic Assessment, Ergonomic Diagnose and Ergonomic Projects. To meet the objectives of the first stage, unsystematic observations, documentary analysis of records and PPRA PCMSO Company, open interviews and structured questionnaires with workers in the sector were applied. In the second stage, the deepening of the problems found in the first study were from task analysis, systematic observations for analysis of postures assumed, according Worksheet RULA (Rapid Upper Limb Assessment) analysis of the physical costs from the implementation of the diagram discomfort/pain, and anthropometric studies by two-dimensional anthropometric dummies. In the third step, were proposed suggestions for improvements to the problems encountered and prioritized. The results indicated order problems and physical environmental, organizational, job, biomechanical and psychosocial. The high levels of discomfort/pain are justified by inadequate occupational postures combined with repeatability of movements in accomplishing the task. Therefore, are necessary changes and adjustments in working conditions of workers in the sector under study, to provide them better quality of life.","PeriodicalId":389707,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Ergonomics In Design, Usability and Special Populations: Part I","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122320116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexandre Crespo Coelho da Silva Pinto, Francisco Felipe da Silva Júnior, Diogo Cunha dos Reis
{"title":"Analysis of Baggage Handling in Airplane Cargo Hold of Commercial Airplane: A Case Study in Ergonomics","authors":"Alexandre Crespo Coelho da Silva Pinto, Francisco Felipe da Silva Júnior, Diogo Cunha dos Reis","doi":"10.54941/ahfe100782","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe100782","url":null,"abstract":"Ergonomic studies related to commercial aviation have focused on improvements related to drivers’ commands and cockpit. However, a small number of studies are devoted to the ground manual transport related to the airplane cargo hold. This study aimed to analyze the biomechanical overload in manual load lifting tasks among ramp operators of commercial airplanes through the application of NIOSH and RULA methods. Two cases involving luggage loading and unloading activities were observed. Data collection was performed with a ramp operator, which photos and filming of activities and workplace during passenger boarding and disembarking of passengers. The biomechanical factors observed and analyzed in this study, with the application of NIOSH and RULA methods, allowed generating values that indicated that luggage loading and unloading activities bring high biomechanical risk for both the manual load lifting activity and for the postures used during luggage handling, which may cause health problems to ramp operators.","PeriodicalId":389707,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Ergonomics In Design, Usability and Special Populations: Part I","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114225398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gustavo Desouzart, Ernesto Filgueiras, Rui Matos, Filipe Melo
{"title":"Human Body-Sleep System Interaction in Residence for University Students: Evaluation of Interaction Patterns Using a System to Capture Video and Software with Observation of Postural Behaviors During Sleep","authors":"Gustavo Desouzart, Ernesto Filgueiras, Rui Matos, Filipe Melo","doi":"10.54941/ahfe100780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe100780","url":null,"abstract":"The behavioral and postural habits and sleep rhythm of university students change depending on the academic period, either because it requires a different pace of study (academic activities) or other types of events but this has rarely been reported in the literature which would allow an analysis and evaluation of this behavior through sleep disorders. This paper presents a study whose objective was to investigate the human interaction with postural behaviors in the residences' bedroom of female university students during the periods in which the subjects were asleep, awake, out of bed, doing activities, using a pillow in different time periods and with ecological validation. A sample of 6964 observations, which corresponds to 196 sleep-hours of 12 university students, was classified into six Interaction Categories (IC). The results show that 28.7% of the participants presented the prone position as the most common postural behavior during sleep. During the image capture, participants answered a questionnaire about the perception of pain in the spine according to the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). 100% of the students complained about back pain; 50% referred to the evening as the period in which the pain was more intense; 25% of participants reported that pain disrupted their sleep and; the biggest indication of median of pain was in the Lumbar region (3.33+ 1.231). This data is essential for health care professionals who can use this information to enable a reduction factor of complaints of back pain, to make recommendations with schools and universities to change the demands of academic activities by distributing them throughout the semester and not at the end of each period.","PeriodicalId":389707,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Ergonomics In Design, Usability and Special Populations: Part I","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115150606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}