What is a clinical workstation? Evolving technology has provided an increasing variety of tools to help the clinician. Many of these have been developed individually, using diVerent machines in diVerent areas. The concept of the workstation was created to amalgamate these technologies and tools into a single ‘computer’ allowing access to all its diVerent components from a single environment. Th...

BACKGROUND Prolonged sitting time has been identified as a health risk factor. Sit-stand workstations allow desk workers to alternate between sitting and standing throughout the working day, but not much is known about their acceptability and feasibility. Hence, the aim of this study was to qualitatively evaluate the acceptability, feasibility and perceptions of using sit-stand workstations in ...

In this paper, a versatile and reconfigurable microassembly workstation designed and realized as a research tool for investigation of the problems in microassembly and micromanipulation processes and recent developments on mechanical and control structure of the system with respect to the previous workstation are presented. These developments include: (i) addition of a manipulator system to rea...

The work presented in this paper was performed for a workstation of an assembly section in a company that manufactures radio modules and air conditioning for cars. After performing a workstation analysis and a questionnaire to the operators it was possible to understand the need to investigate the risk of musculoskeletal disorders originated from both the handling of loads as the incorrect dime...

Handheld devices such as mobile phones and tablet computers have become widespread with thousands of available software applications. Recently, handhelds are being proposed as part of medical imaging solutions, especially in emergency medicine, where immediate consultation is required. However, handheld devices differ significantly from medical workstation displays in terms of display character...

OBJECTIVES This study analyzed the effect of a standard and a modified checkout workstation during a simulated task on trunk postures of a supermarket checkout operator. METHODS Eight participants performed a task involving grasping, scanning and depositing products, while 3D images of the trunk were collected. RESULTS A number of kinematic changes were observed in trunk posture. A greater ...

Abstract. In order to solve the problems of failure disposable tip insertion which happens in pipetting process most multi-station and high-throughput devices, this paper proposes a high-rigidity screw-type pipette shaft–disposable assembly mechanism with excellent auto-centering effects based on principle ball screw drive. The stiffness model new device is established, its axial deformation ar...

In this paper we propose a communication benchmark suite: BTU(Bits To the User). Our benchmark does not test the maximum performance of a workstation in a homogeneous network under ideal circumstances. Rather, we take a vendor supplied workstation running UNIX 3 operating system, install our benchmark program and connect the workstation to a blackbox testbed which emulates a LAN connected to a ...

Musculoskeletal disorders lead to pain and suffering and result in high costs to industry. There is evidence to suggest that whereas conventional ergonomics training programs result in knowledge gains, they may not necessarily translate to changes in behavior. There were 11 participants in an ergonomics training program, and a subsample of participants received a motivational intervention in th...

In this paper we propose a communication benchmark suite: BTU(Bits To the User). In the BTU benchmarking process, the vendor supplies a workstation running a UNIX 2 operating system, we install our benchmark program and connect the workstation to a testbed, consisting of blackboxes, which emulates a LAN/WAN environment. The benchmark run will submit the workstation to a carefully designed combi...