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The APHIRM toolkit: an evidence-based system for workplace MSD risk management

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2019
Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) continue as one of the largest occupational health and safety problems worldwide. One reason for this situation is that current workplace risk management practices fail to meet some important evidence-based requirements ...
Jodi Oakman, Wendy Macdonald
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Wellbeing at Work—Emotional Impact on Workers Using a Worker Guidance System Designed for Positive User Experience

Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 2022
Wellbeing at work can be achieved through different strategies; designing for a positive user experience (UX) is one way. However, the relationship between wellbeing and professionally used technology is rather unexplored, especially in work areas that ...
Magdalena Laib, Christina Haspel, Christopher Stockinger, Lucas Polanski-Schräder, Philipp Dücker, Kristian Voll, Patrizia Schiffrer, Michael Burmester   +7 more
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German version of subjective methods for measuring activation, mental workload, and attention in control rooms

Frontiers in Psychology
This manuscript focuses on selecting and testing subjective assessment methods to measure mental strain in control rooms. Based on interviews with energy sector workers, our framework includes activation, mental workload, and attention, as they were ...
Estefany Rey-Becerra, Patricia Tegtmeier, Matthias Hartwig, Sascha Wischniewski   +3 more
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Person Re-Identification Using Additive Distance Constraint With Similar Labels Loss

IEEE Access, 2020
Despite the promising progress made in recent years, person re-identification (Re-ID) remains a challenging task due to the intra-class variations.
Guofa Li, Lisha Huang, Liangwen Tang, Chunli Han, Yaoyu Chen, Heng Xie, Shen Li, Gang Xu   +7 more
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Current and ceased users of sit stand workstations: a qualitative evaluation of ergonomics, safety and health factors within a workplace setting

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background Many workplaces have implemented sit-stand workstations (SSW), which enable a worker to transition between sitting and standing as they perform their work activities.
Brendan Henderson, Rwth Stuckey, Tessa Keegel   +2 more
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Effects of cognitive and stress management training in middle-aged and older industrial workers in different socioeconomic settings: a randomized controlled study

Frontiers in Psychology, 2023
IntroductionThe demographic change requires longer working lifetime. However, fear of job loss may lead to chronic stress whereas aging and unchallenging work may accelerate cognitive decline and early retirement.
Patrick D. Gajewski, Catharina Stahn, Joachim Zülch, Edmund Wascher, Stephan Getzmann, Michael Falkenstein   +5 more
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Assessment of Drivers’ Mental Workload by Multimodal Measures during Auditory-Based Dual-Task Driving Scenarios

Sensors
Assessing drivers’ mental workload is crucial for reducing road accidents. This study examined drivers’ mental workload in a simulated auditory-based dual-task driving scenario, with driving tasks as the main task, and auditory-based N-back tasks as the ...
Jiaqi Huang, Qiliang Zhang, Tingru Zhang, Tieyan Wang, Da Tao   +4 more
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Toward Accurate Cybersickness Prediction in Virtual Reality: A Multimodal Physiological Modeling Approach

Sensors
Cybersickness poses a significant challenge to the widespread adoption of virtual reality (VR), as it impairs user experience and operational performance.
Yang Long, Tieyan Wang, Xiaoliang Liu, Yujiang Li, Da Tao   +4 more
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Human factors and ergonomics in the emergency department

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2002
Although health care rapidly adopts technologic advances from other fields, it has been slow to incorporate well-established principles from human factors engineering into the health care workplace. This article demonstrates some of those principles by analyzing an all too routine clinical event from a human factors point of view.
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL. ( host institution ), Wears, Robert L. ( author ), Perry, Shawna J. ( author )   +2 more
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Human Factors and Ergonomics in Engineering Curricula [PDF]

Journal of Ergonomics, 2012
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