In this paper we present the idea of ergonomic instruments: musical devices that focus on minimising the learning curve of musicians by mapping inherent musical actions to the creation of music. We situate ergonomic instruments in the context of existing relevant work, and then discuss a new methodology towards the development of musical instruments including exploration of a musical goal which...

original article   health, safety, and environment management are dedicated a vast area in which ergonomics aspects known as one of the related aspects. in the following case study, the occupational hygiene by ergonomic intervention is focused. one of the prevalent activities among industrial sectors' workers in the developing countries is manual lifting tasks and other related physical activit...

This article is the result of a case study on ergonomic work analysis carried out in an urban bus company located in Ilha do Governador, Rio de Janeiro. The methodology used in this work follows the French-tradition Ergonomic Analysis of the Work (EWA) combined with the best tradition from anglo-saxon ergonomic work analysis. The situated diagnosis was performed to provide relevant information ...

This paper deals with research aimed at developing a method for ergonomic analysis of the driver's workplace in an electric locomotive. It presents the structure of the diagnosis and its assumptions, and includes a re-evaluation of the questionnaire-expert method in ergonomic research. The article presents research data on weights and evaluations including their standard deviations for particul...

1.1 VR Environments and Interfaces 1.1.1 Head-Mounted Display 1.1.2 Instrumented Clothing 1.1.3 3-D Spatialized Sound 1.1.4 Other VR Interfaces 1.2 Diversity of VR Applications 1.3 Current Status of VR Technology 1.4 VR-Based Medical Applications in Development 1.4.1 Surgical Training and Planning 1.4.2 Medical Education, Modeling, and Nonsurgical Training 1.4.3 Anatomically Keyed Displays with...

Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT) is one of the most relevant resources that companies have to achieve competitiveness and best performance. The selection of AMT is a complex problem which involves significant amount of information and uncertainty when multiple aspects must be taken into consideration. Actual models for the selection of AMT are found scarce of the Human Factors and Ergono...

Background: Work-related musculoskeletal disorders are the most important problems in the health workforce. These discomforts cause many working days losses, increase absenteeism from work, and impose annual economic costs. Awkward posture is the most important factor among the risk factors for work-related musculoskeletal disorders. This study aimed at implementing an interventional ergonomic ...

To date, automatic handwriting text recognition systems are far from being perfect and heavy human intervention is often required to check and correct the results of such systems. As an alternative, an interactive framework that integrates the human knowledge into the transcription process has been presented in previous works. In this work, multimodal interaction at character-level is studied. ...