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The Role of Ergonomic and Human Factors in Sustainable Manufacturing: A Review

Machines
The study and implementation of ergonomics are vital for the growth of industries and improvement in work cultures. Sustainable manufacturing cannot be achieved without the implementation of human-factor ergonomics. Ergonomics is used to analyze the link
Bassam Hasanain
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Challenging presumed technological superiority when working with (artificial) colleagues

Scientific Reports, 2022
Technological advancements are ubiquitously supporting or even replacing humans in all areas of life, bringing the potential for human-technology symbiosis but also novel challenges.
Tobias Rieger, Eileen Roesler, Dietrich Manzey   +2 more
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Optimization of Humanoid Robot Designs for Human-Robot Ergonomic Payload Lifting [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
When a human and a humanoid robot collaborate physically, ergonomics is a key factor to consider. Assuming a given humanoid robot, several control architectures exist nowadays to address ergonomic physical human-robot collaboration. This paper takes one step further by considering robot hardware parameters as optimization variables in the problem of ...
arxiv  

Medical Device Development: the challenge for ergonomics [PDF]

, 2008
High quality, well designed medical devices are necessary to provide safe and effective clinical care for patients as well as to ensure the health and safety of professional and lay device users.
Crowe, John A., Martin, Jennifer L., Murphy, Elizabeth, Norris, Beverley J.   +3 more
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A Touch Enabled Hemodynamic and Metabolic Monitor

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This work presents a touch‐based hybrid platform for simultaneous monitoring of vital signs and sweat metabolites. With a simple tri‐finger touch of 4–6 min, users can concurrently get to know their glucose, uric acid, cortisol levels from fingertip sweat, along with blood pressure and heart rate.
Omeed Djassemi, Tamoghna Saha, Ponnusamy Nandhakumar, Muhammad Inam Khan, Hannah Fishman, Sara Earney, Chochanon Moonla, Yuchen Xu, Henry Thai, Sofia Morales‐Fermin, Gyeongho Kim, Rhea Park, Beya Acot, Oscar Wu, Cannon Wurster, An‐Yi Chang, Christopher Cheung, Julia Silberman, Shichao Ding, Joseph Wang   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Night shift effects on Cognitive executive functions and alertness among petrochemical control room operators

Salāmat-i kār-i Īrān, 2018
Background and aims: Shift work and in particular night shift work is associated with many problems such as sleep deprivation, sleepiness, decreased cognitive performance, increased human errors, and fatigue; it is also one of the major contributors of ...
reza kazemi, majid motamedzadeh, rashid haidarimoghadam   +2 more
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Software symptomcheckR: an R package for analyzing and visualizing symptom checker triage performance

BMC Digital Health
Background A major stream of research on symptom checkers aims at evaluating the technology’s predictive accuracy, but apart from general trends, the results are marked by high variability.
Marvin Kopka, Markus A. Feufel
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Attention and automation: New perspectives on mental underload and performance [PDF]

, 2002
There is considerable evidence in the ergonomics literature that automation can significantly reduce operator mental workload. Furthermore, reducing mental workload is not necessarily a good thing, particularly in cases where the level is already ...
BADDELEY A., BADDELEY A., BAINBRIDGE L., BUCK J. R., BYRNE G., COYNE P., EPHRATH A. R., EYSENCK M. W., HANCOCK P. A., HlLBURN B., HUGHES D., KAHNEMAN D., KANTOWITZ B. H., KESSEL C. J., LABIALE G., LIAO J., Mark S. Young, MATTHEWS G., MATTHEWS G., Moss S. A., NECKA E., Neville A. Stanton, NlLSSON L., NORMAN D. A., PARASURAMAN R., PARASURAMAN R., PARASURAMAN S., REASON J. T., REASON J. T., SANDERS M. S., SCHLEGEL R. E., STOKES A. F., WICKENS C. D., WICKENS C. D., WICKENS C. D., WILSON J. R., WlCKENS C. D., WlCKENS C. D., YOUNG M. S., YOUNG M. S.   +39 more
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Surgery and Ergonomics [PDF]

Archives of Surgery, 1999
This article will provide the reader with an overview of ergonomic issues relevant to the operating room environment. Minimally invasive surgical technologies have increased the therapeutic value of surgical procedures by allowing operations to be performed with less trauma to the patient.
openaire   +3 more sources

Intraoperative Fast Adaptive Focus Tracking Robotic OCT Enables Real‐Time Tumor Grading and Large‐Area Microvascular Imaging in Human Spinal Cord Surgery

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The fast adaptive focus tracking robotic optical coherence tomography (FACT‐ROCT) offers real‐time, high‐resolution imaging of spinal cord tumors during surgery. By reducing motion artifacts with robotics and adaptive focal tracking, it accurately differentiates tumor grades using a novel attenuation coefficient marker and reveals critical ...
Bin He, Yuzhe Ying, Yejiong Shi, Zhe Meng, Zichen Yin, Zhengyu Chen, Zhangwei Hu, Ruizhi Xue, Linkai Jing, Yang Lu, Zhenxing Sun, Weitao Man, Youtu Wu, Dan Lei, Ning Zhang, Guihuai Wang, Ping Xue   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source