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Nonlinear analysis reveals duration and gradient-dependent disruption of load carriage gait variability during an outdoor 6.72 km time trial in military personnel 非线性分析揭示了军事人员在户外6.72公里计时赛中负重步态变异性的持续时间和梯度依赖性中断

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Applied Ergonomics Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2025.104639

Evan D. Feigel , Ayden McCarthy , Joel T. Fuller , Lily Rosenblum , Mita Lovalekar , Tommi Ojanen , Kai Pihlainen , Brian J. Martin , Kristen J. Koltun , Tim L.A. Doyle , Bradley C. Nindl

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Evaluating mental workload: A taxonomic approach to evaluation tools based on ISO 10075 评估心理工作量：基于ISO 10075的评估工具的分类学方法。

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Applied Ergonomics Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2025.104659

Mirco Bartolomei , Riccardo Gervasi , Carlotta Acconito , Laura Angioletti , Davide Cannizzaro , Michela Balconi , Luca Mastrogiacomo , Fiorenzo Franceschini

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Workplace based interventions which apply the stages of change framework to their design: A scoping review 将变革阶段框架应用于其设计的基于工作场所的干预措施：范围审查

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Applied Ergonomics Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2025.104646

Elise Condie, Victoria Weale, Jodi Oakman

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Video entertainment to mitigate safety risks during prolonged automated driving: Impacts on cognitive load, fatigue, and takeover performance 视频娱乐减轻长时间自动驾驶中的安全风险：对认知负荷、疲劳和接管性能的影响

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Applied Ergonomics Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2025.104644

Jun Ma , Lizhuo Zang , Jiateng Li , Zaiyan Gong , Yue Fei , Jin Lu

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The impact of telehealth videoconferencing on the healthcare work system: designing for sustained practice 远程医疗视频会议对医疗工作系统的影响：为持续实践而设计

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Applied Ergonomics Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2025.104641

Nicola Green , David Tappin , Tim Bentley

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COVID-19 vaccination systems: Human Factors at the ‘sharp end’ COVID-19疫苗接种系统：处于“尖端”的人为因素

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Applied Ergonomics Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2025.104588

Janette Edmonds , Sue Hignett , Helen Vosper , Hugh Currie , Paul Bowie

{"title":"COVID-19 vaccination systems: Human Factors at the ‘sharp end’","authors":"Janette Edmonds , Sue Hignett , Helen Vosper , Hugh Currie , Paul Bowie","doi":"10.1016/j.apergo.2025.104588","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apergo.2025.104588","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>To share key learnings from the assessment of a COVID-19 vaccination system in Scotland using a Human Reliability Analysis (HRA) approach.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>Project data were collected in February 2021 in NHS Ayrshire and Arran (NHSAA) – the regional health authority - using document analysis (Service Delivery Manual, 2020), observations (2 site visits), and workshops (n = 8, with 26 participants). The Systematic Human Error Reduction and Prediction Approach (SHERPA) is a framework for human reliability analysis that can be used as part of a safety assessment or safety case to determine whether the system is ‘safe enough’ and provide recommendations to improve safety by mitigating error potential. In this paper it was used to assess the service delivery system and make recommendations.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Many recovery mechanisms and risk control measures had already been implemented by NHSAA. Eighteen issues required additional risk control, grouped into three themes.<ul><li><span>1.</span><span><div>Improve staff training and awareness, and the management of expectations.</div></span></li><li><span>2.</span><span><div>Improve equipment and information provision.</div></span></li><li><span>3.</span><span><div>Implement additional checks and contingencies.</div></span></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><span>1.</span><span><div>Improve staff training and awareness, and the management of expectations.</div></span></li><li><span>2.</span><span><div>Improve equipment and information provision.</div></span></li><li><span>3.</span><span><div>Implement additional checks and contingencies.</div></span></li></ul></div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>The findings were used to improve the current service delivery and provide guidance for the safe design and delivery of future rollouts of time-critical public health vaccination programmes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55502,"journal":{"name":"Applied Ergonomics","volume":"130 ","pages":"Article 104588"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145020411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Soldiers experience fit issues, musculoskeletal pain, and equipment and mobility interference with military body armour 士兵们会遇到健康问题，肌肉骨骼疼痛，装备和机动性受到军事防弹衣的干扰。

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Applied Ergonomics Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2025.104645

Brooke R. Brisbine , Richard H. Molloy , Greg L. Carstairs , Celeste E. Coltman

{"title":"Soldiers experience fit issues, musculoskeletal pain, and equipment and mobility interference with military body armour","authors":"Brooke R. Brisbine , Richard H. Molloy , Greg L. Carstairs , Celeste E. Coltman","doi":"10.1016/j.apergo.2025.104645","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apergo.2025.104645","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>This study aimed to compare fit, musculoskeletal pain and interference issues experienced by male and female Australian soldiers when wearing body armour, as well as quantify the extent to which anthropometric characteristics contribute to these issues.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>77 male and 12 female Australian soldiers completed a questionnaire about their perception of body armour, including questions about fit, musculoskeletal pain, interference with other equipment and mobility restrictions.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Females experienced disproportionate challenges with body armour fit, particularly excessive length and width, leading to greater musculoskeletal pain, equipment interference and mobility restrictions. Males also reported issues with body armour being too long and limiting mobility during occupational tasks. Front length was the strongest predictor of body armour-related issues, affecting mobility, comfort and acceptability more than chest breadth or circumference.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Body armour size and design modifications, particularly to system length, are necessary to improve fit and occupational performance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55502,"journal":{"name":"Applied Ergonomics","volume":"130 ","pages":"Article 104645"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145093032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Influence of seating orientation on motion sickness in autonomous vehicles 自动驾驶汽车座椅朝向对晕动病的影响

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Applied Ergonomics Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2025.104643

Leonhard Rottmann , Aniella Johannsen , Mathias Niedling , Mark Vollrath

{"title":"Influence of seating orientation on motion sickness in autonomous vehicles","authors":"Leonhard Rottmann , Aniella Johannsen , Mathias Niedling , Mark Vollrath","doi":"10.1016/j.apergo.2025.104643","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apergo.2025.104643","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A major advantage of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is the passengers’ ability to perform non-driving related tasks (NDRTs) while being driven. Among these NDRTs, social interaction with other passengers is considered to be particularly valuable. Seating layouts featuring rotatable front seats will enable a new level of social interaction during autonomous car journeys. However, being seated against the direction of travel is not very popular. Fear of motion sickness is one of the main reasons for this reluctance, which is commonly explained by the inability to see the road ahead. This raises the question to what extent motion sickness in rearward facing passengers of autonomous vehicles is to be expected and to what degree this is caused by the inability to see through the windscreen. To answer this question, a field experiment in real traffic with N = 55 participants was conducted. Seating orientation and forward view were manipulated and their effects on motion sickness as well as related factors relevant to the acceptance of AVs were analyzed. Both a rearward seating orientation and a restricted forward view led to significantly increased motion sickness. The insights gained serve as a basis for the development of HMIs that improve the acceptance of rearward facing seating orientations in AVs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55502,"journal":{"name":"Applied Ergonomics","volume":"130 ","pages":"Article 104643"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145202101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The role of different sensory stimuli in an at height simulation 不同感官刺激在高空模拟中的作用

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Applied Ergonomics Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2025.104559

Dylan Shah, Glyn Lawson

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Assessment of individual and dyadic workload of student and instructor pilots in real and simulated flight: An exploratory study 真实和模拟飞行中学员和教官飞行员的个体和二元工作量评估：一项探索性研究

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Applied Ergonomics Pub Date : 2025-11-01 Epub Date: 2025-08-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2025.104606

E. van Weelden , T.J. Wiltshire , M. Alimardani , M.M. Louwerse , R.N. Roy , F. Dehais

{"title":"Assessment of individual and dyadic workload of student and instructor pilots in real and simulated flight: An exploratory study","authors":"E. van Weelden , T.J. Wiltshire , M. Alimardani , M.M. Louwerse , R.N. Roy , F. Dehais","doi":"10.1016/j.apergo.2025.104606","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apergo.2025.104606","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Flight instructors are vital in the training of novice pilots. Just as the mental workload in student pilots fluctuates during training, so does the mental workload of the instructors, affecting their dyadic performance and judgment. This paper explored how training environments (simulated vs. real flight), flight control conditions (student pilot flying vs. monitoring), and flight phases (take-off vs. downwind vs. landing) could affect mental workload in student and instructor pilots, as well as their interpersonal coordination through electrocardiography (ECG) based measures. Student pilots performed four consecutive standard flight traffic patterns with an instructor in a simulator and in real flight, under different flight control conditions of varying workload demands, while their ECG signals were recorded. The results indicated different patterns of interpersonal coordination between simulated and real flight. The other experimental variables, i.e., flight control and flight phase, mostly had an effect on participants’ heart rate and heart rate variability. In accordance with the existing literature, heart rate increased in high workload conditions and flight phases, whilst heart rate variability decreased. Additionally, we observed a linear relationship between subjective workload and physiological synchrony which indicates that student-instructor coordination increased as the student pilot experienced more mental workload in the flight tasks. The current study highlights that individual workload as well as dyadic workload, measured through cardiac signals, can be used to evaluate student-instructor coordination during flight training as an indicator of training outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55502,"journal":{"name":"Applied Ergonomics","volume":"129 ","pages":"Article 104606"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144852633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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