Virtual Concept Workshop 2014 Innovation on Product design and manufacture Medellin, Colombia. 26 28 March 2014 Paper Number -1Copyright of Virtual Concept Assessment of ergonomic issues during product conceptualization stage in augmented reality environments Santiago Arroyave, Gilberto Osorio-Gómez, Johana Hoyos Design Engineering Research Group (GRID), Universidad EAFIT, Carrera 49 No 7 Sur-5...

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 database system EKIDES (Ergonomics Knowledge and Intelligent Design System) assists designers of technical systems, equipment, products and workplaces to meet ergonomic requirements for all system components and their interactions during the planning, development and subsequent design and blueprint processes. EKIDES is a design tool in form of an electronic reference system and an evaluatio...

Using high-level, 3-D computer graphics simulation and other engineering analysis tools, this research investigates the ergonomic advantages of one manufacturing system design over another. The designs compared are lean manufacturing (manufacturing cells) and the functional (job shop) design. Simulation models based on an actual manufacturing cell and its workers are used to generate correspond...

The human hand is a complex structure that performs various functions for activities of daily living and occupations. This paper presents a literature review on the methodologies used to evaluate hand functions from a biomechanics standpoint, including anthropometry, kinematics, kinetics, and electromyography (EMG). Anthropometry describes the dimensions and measurements of the hand. Kinematics...

manual material handling is identified as one of the musculoskeletal disorders risk factors. the aims of this study were to evaluate lifting activities by niosh equation and mac method and the correlation of these two methods. this cross-sectional study was conducted in a rubber industry. studied subjects were 136 male workers selected from various sections by proportional-to size sampling meth...

For more than two decades, the HCI community has elaborated numerous tools for user interface evaluation. Although the related tools are wide, the evaluation remains a difficult task. This paper presents a new approach for user interface evaluation. The proposed evaluation process focuses on utility and usability as software quality factors. It is based on the UI ergonomic quality inspection as...

The growing number of musculoskeletal disorders in industry could be addressed by the use of collaborative robots, which allow the joint manipulation of objects by both a robot and a person. However the efficiency of a collaborative robot regarding the reduction of musculoskeletal disorders risks is highly task-dependent. Yet, even when designing dedicated systems, the ergonomic benefit provide...