BACKGROUND A lack of physical activity and excessive sitting can contribute to poor physical health and wellbeing. The high percentage of the UK adult population in employment, and the prolonged sitting associated with desk-based office-work, make these workplaces an appropriate setting for interventions to reduce sedentary behaviour and increase physical activity. This pilot study aims to dete...

Self-checkout is the emergent/emerging retail technology wherein users (shoppers) check out their own items using an interactive kiosk. A dramatic growth is anticipated in the prevalence of self-checkout systems in retail environments. A study was conducted to develop and evaluate a redesign of a self-checkout system with a focus on issues related to physical accessibility for wheelchair users....

The potential cost and logistic improvements of PACS (Picture Archive and Communication System) over film-based medical image management awaits the development of viable radiology workstations (RWS) targeted for the primary interpretation task. While the quality of electronically displayed images has been highly investigated, only recently has design and experimental work been devoted to the ot...

OBJECTIVES This study analyzed the effect of a standard and a modified checkout workstation during a simulated task on trunk postures of a supermarket checkout operator. METHODS Eight participants performed a task involving grasping, scanning and depositing products, while 3D images of the trunk were collected. RESULTS A number of kinematic changes were observed in trunk posture. A greater ...

In this miniproject, you are to implement a Special Purpose Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (SPART). The SPART can be integrated into the processor of your final project to serve as the serial I/O interface between the processor and a serial I/O port on NT workstation. Use the Hyperterminal Accessory, this will permit you to input characters from the keyboard and to output characters to the s...

Many applications, particularly in Computer-Aided Design (CAD), require large amounts of memory, limiting the size of problems which can be handled. This paper presents a new mechanism which exploits the large amount of memory available in a cluster of workstations for programs that are designed in an object-oriented manner. The memory required for each object may be allocated in other machines...

background: musculoskeletal disorders (msds) are among important health problems in working population. because of performing difficult physical activities, hand-woven shoe-sole makers are at risk of developing various types of msds. objective: to determine the prevalence of musculoskeletal symptoms in different body areas of hand-woven shoe-sole makers, assess workers′ postures and workstation...

Usually, optimizing productivity and worker well-being are separate tasks performed by engineers with different roles goals using tools. This results in a silo effect which can lead to slow development process suboptimal solutions, one of the objectives, either or well-being, being given precedence. Moreover, studies often focus on finding best solutions for particular use case, once have been ...