This paper presents an ergonomic garment design for elderly Turkish men. The purpose of this study was to determine elderly men's demands, needs and problems in regard to clothing and to design an ergonomic garment in the light of this knowledge. The sample consisted of 120 elderly men living in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey, and its province. A questionnaire was prepared and given to thes...

The goal of this paper is to survey the main issues with the ergonomic evaluation of MRS (Mixed Reality Systems) and to stimulate discussions for future research. A first point concerns definitions and specificities of MRS within the « reality / virtuality » continuum, and the incorporation of user issues. Another point concerns the combinatory character of the ergonomic knowledge to be applied...

This essay attempts to explore an intelligent design evaluation system dealing with the ergonomic comfort problems for the child car seat designers. The new intelligent comfort-evaluating (abbreviated as ICE) model is developed through two stages. The first stage is to perform an ergonomic experiment to find out the relations between the comfort and the interface pressures on the child subjects...

The United States MEPS (musculoskeletal--eyestrain--psychosocial--stress) study consisted of 1 group of 28 female data entry operators. The intervention was in 3 parts: workstation redesign (including advanced ergonomic chairs, motorized adjustable workstations, advanced adjustable keyboards, adjustable copyholders, adjustable footrests, monitor support surfaces) and ergonomic training/coaching...

We collect ergonomic rules and normative rules considerations for automobile business and modeled these activities with a special UML language created for automobile business, VDML (Vehicle Development Modeling Language). From these high level process vision integrated in the product development activity a wide variety of improvements can be achieved related with time reduction, activity proces...

The purpose of this study was to determine if ratings of discomfort differ over time between two ergonomic chairs of the same approximate cost. Twenty participants from a metropolitan university sat on two types of ergonomic chairs for 90~minutes in each of two sessions while performing typing, reading, and writing tasks. Repeated measures three-way and two-way analyses of variance were used to...