The intention of this study to design the probability optimized sewing sack’s workstation based on ergonomics for productivity improvement and decreasing musculoskeletal disorders. The physical dimensions of two workers were using to design the new workstation. The physical dimensions are (1) sitting height, (2) mid shoulder height sitting, (3) shoulder breadth, (4) knee height, (5) popliteal h...

OBJECTIVE This study evaluated the effect of an occupational therapy ergonomics intervention on the workstation design and body positioning of microscope workers at a fiber optics facility. METHOD The study was quasi-experimental. Fifty-one microscope workers were assigned to one of three groups: control, education only, and education training. Their workstation design and body positioning we...

The objective of this research was to study and identify ergonomic deficiencies in computer workstation design in typical offices. Physical measurements and a questionnaire were used to study 40 workstations. Major ergonomic deficiencies were found in physical design and layout of the workstations, employee postures, work practices, and training. The consequences in terms of user health and oth...

Restraints in space range between the simplicity of foot loops and the dissatisfaction of current restraints with a more welcome stabilization closer to the body’s center of gravity. Although there is a line of upper thigh restraints, which come close to a terrestrial chair analogue, they are not currently implemented in design standards. In 1999 a team of architects and engineers at the Univer...

This paper presents the Web version of the philological workstation BAMBI (Better Access to Manuscript and Browsing of Images) and its design. The BAMBI Web workstation allows historians, and more particularly philologists, to work on manuscripts (transcription, annotations, indexing, etc.) alongside the Internet network. Our approach for the Web implementation of the philological workstation i...

A cycle-harvesting distributed operating system is described. Building upon current kernelized operating system technology, it promises to utilize spare workstation resources for large, long-running applications, while subjecting the workstation owner/user to little inconvenience. The design is based on a novel use of the multiple-personality potential of microkernel-based operating systems. Ac...