Touch-screen tablets are becoming increasingly popular as office work tools. However, as current health and safety regulations applied to office equipment do not cover tablets, the importance of understanding their impact on the posture of office workers increases. As the research on ergonomic issues related to tablet use is scarce, especially in the context of office work, we explore, through ...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of and differences in certain health complaints, including physical symptoms and psychological distress, among workers in different occupational categories and to explore the associations between occupational category and each complaint. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted using a self-administered questionnair...

Luddism, and the smashing of new machines. The introduction to the T.U.C. report on "Automation in the Office"* stated clearly that automation can lead to better living standards for all workers, though it is well worth remembering that, in the offices themselves, the staffs have only just achieved legal provision on Health, Welfare and Safety, the Act introducing them becoming effective on Aug...

BACKGROUND Workers in shipyard companies are exposed to different respiratory hazards. The present case-control study was designed to evaluate pulmonary function tests and respiratory symptoms among shipyard workers in Asaluyeh city in Southwest Iran. MATERIAL AND METHOD Between March and October 2015 we recruited participants from two separate populations: shipyard workers as cases and offic...

1. AUTHOR INFORMATION I am a Computer Science PhD student at Georgia Tech studying software engineering. I have also worked and interned at software development organizations including Microsoft Research and the Georgia Tech Research Institute. My research involves improving programming environments and workspaces for software developers and teams. I am interested in creating a smart office for...

Real-world activity is complex and increasingly involves use of multiple computer applications and communication devices over extended periods of time. To understand activity at the level of detail required to provide natural and comprehensive support for it necessitates appreciating both its richness and dynamically changing context. In this article, we (1) summarize field work in which we rec...

*Office of Research, Statistics, and International Policy, Office of Policy. Social Security Administration. made to replace such lost income totaled $16.4 billion, or 36 percent of the loss. This degree of protection against income loss from short-term sickness has been about the same since 1970. The number of workers protected by formal plans providing cash benefits for sickness in 1983 rose ...

[Purpose] A scalp massage was conducted on female office workers divided into a 15 minute group and 25 minute group and its effect on stress hormone, blood pressure and heart rate was analyzed in order to provide a theoretical rationale to apply scalp massage as stress therapy. [Subjects and Methods] A scalp massage was applied to 34 female office workers twice a week for a total of 10 weeks; t...

Office workers typically care little about saving energy because they are not responsible for paying energy-related bills. The goal of this study is to find ways to reduce the unconscious negative impact by applying persuasive technologies to create awareness and encourage office workers towards more environmentally-sustainable behavior. This paper presents a summary of the intervention techniq...

Sit-stand tables have been suggested to increase variation and prevent disorders among office workers. However, it is a challenge to ensure their proper use. Therefore, we developed a system reminding workers to change the height of their sit-stand table at regular intervals. The system consists of three devices: (1) table legs that can be controlled in height by an electric drive; (2) remote c...