As virtual environment (VE) technology has become more disseminated, harmful physiological influences on users of VE have been reported such as simulator sickness and motion sickness -collectively called VE sickness. For VE safety and comfort, we note a new dynamic visual illusion, called" rotational dynamic illusion" .Several psychophysical experiments measuring head movement in illusion obser...

Objectives: One of the applications of ergonomics disciplinary is designing driver workstation compatible to users’ characteristics. The aim of this study was evaluation of interior design of Shoka vehicle with respect to the accommodation for Iranian population and proposing suggestions for customizing design of the vehicle. Methods: This study was a descriptive-analytical study conducted a...

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...

With the development of intelligent environments, people have increasing demands for comfortable living environments. The three major factors affecting users’ comfort are thermal comfort, visual comfort and air quality. This paper presents a monitoring platform of comfort degree for intelligent environments based on ZigBee wireless sensor network that measures living environment’s parameters an...

PURPOSE The goal of this study was to evaluate the pattern of initial adaptation of neophytes to corneal refractive therapy (CRT) for overnight corneal reshaping in terms of comfort and subjective visual performance at lens insertion at night and lens removal in the morning. METHODS Twenty-two young healthy subjects were enrolled in this study. All of them had been trialed to assess adaptatio...

School buildings as a major part of public buildings are considered as one of the basic consumers of energy in Iran. Based on building typology and occupancy patterns, school buildings have a great potentiality for energy optimization while providing thermal comfort. This study investigates the architectural design parameters such as orientation, optimum window to wall ratio, space organization...