Nowadays, the ergonomic issues become more and important in all economic activity domains. Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) represent main problem generated by poor design of workplaces. The healthcare domain involves high level risks related to physical mental load work which could lead MSDs. paper presents an analysis these for physiotherapy identifies potential measures improve ...

The exact contribution of Broca's area to motor cognition is still controversial. Here we used repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (5 Hz, five pulses) to interfere transiently with the function of left BA44 in 13 healthy individuals; the task consisted of reordering human actions or nonbiological events based on three pictures presented on a computer screen and extracted from a video s...

BACKGROUND Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a common occupational disorder associated with repetitive manual work. Little information exists about the possible relation between the variation of biomechanical hand/wrist exposure and the development of symptoms and median nerve conduction values. AIMS To investigate the prevalence of CTS in a group of workers exposed to intensive use of the hand...

We describe a data mining technique for the discovery of student behavior patterns while using a tutoring system. Student actions are logged during tutor sessions. The actions are categorized, binned and symbolized. The resulting symbols are arranged sequentially, and examined by a motif discovery algorithm to detect repetitive patterns, or motifs, that describe frequent tutor events. These mot...

In task-oriented dialogues, there is often only one right answer the system can give. However, a lack of variation can seem repetitive and unnatural. Humans change the way they express something, e.g. by being more or less concise. We aim to approximate this ability by automatically varying the level of verbosity and directness of a given system action. In this work, we illustrate how verbosity...

Occupational ulnar neuropathy at the elbow joint develops in the course of long term direct pressure on the nerve and a persistently flexed elbow posture, but first of all, it is strongly associated with "holding a tool in a certain position" repetitively. Therefore, computer work only in exceptional cases can be considered as a risk factor for the neuropathy. Ulnar hypermobility at the elbow m...

OBJECTIVE To assess the profile of outpatients seen at an occupational disease clinic of a general and repetitive strain injury (RSI) patients by using multivariate analyze. METHODS The first 565 visit registries for the year 1996 were assessed regarding their social and demographics aspects, work characteristics, and diagnosis. All the variables were analyzed by univariate analysis method. B...

Elizabcrh A. Muik,IIS, is a Rehabilitation Engineer, Ne''\'ington Children's Hospital, NeWington, Connecticut, There is Ettle 31'gument that computers have affected activItieS In our dadl' lives. from banking to programming a horne video recorder, At Newington Children's Hospital, staff of the occupational therapv depanment and rehabilitation engineering Department have customized a computer pr...