Introduction to Human Factors and Ergonomics for Engineers

Lehto, Mark R.; Landry, Steven J.

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“…The design of the control desk and operator's work activities in interaction with the desk has a significant impact on the operator's reliability (Crawford, Toft, & Kift, 2013; Dadashi, Wilson, Golightly, Sharples, & Clarke, 2013). The errors which may happen while operating with commanding and signaling devices can lead to many undesired consequences, and even to the breakdown of the system, which includes the operator and the control desk (Lehto & Landry, 2012). During the development of the system, great attention should be paid to the knowledge of human factors (Crampin, 2017; Falcão & Soares, 2012; Heape & Lowe, 2012; Lee & Cha, 2019; Skřehot, Marek, & Houser, 2017), because human errors are often related to flaws in system design due to the lack of proper information (Huang & Bin, 2017; Smith, Blandford, & Back, 2009; Stojiljkovic, 2011).…”

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Interaction between an operator and the control desk at the control room of the railway traffic: A Serbian experience

Grozdanović

2020

Hum Ftrs & Erg Mfg Svc

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The subject of this paper is the interaction between an operator and the control desk at the Railway Traffic Control Room (RTCR) in Nis, Serbia. The following methods were used for this research: operators' anthropometric measurement;determining of maximum force of the movements of operators' arms; an analysis of workload of the movements of operators' arms, heads and torsos, and an analysis of errors in operators' movements in response to visual cues. The paper presents the following results: static parameter of 20 anthropometric measures of 41 operators' bodies were measured; nine corresponding dimensions of particular body parts for 5th, 50th, and 95th percentile were calculated; 10 characteristic work angles were measured; five corresponding functional body parts were calculated; times and distances covered by operators' arms were measured; maximum forces used for these movements were calculated; positions and number of movements of arms, heads, and torsos of operators were determined, and movement errors and probability of movement errors in choice of direction, arms and cumulative conditional probability were calculated.The research was conducted with the aim of discovering determining factors of mutual synchronization of the operator and desk.

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Interaction between an operator and the control desk at the control room of the railway traffic: A Serbian experience

Grozdanović

2020

Hum Ftrs & Erg Mfg Svc

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“…This cutting tool would suitable for both right and lefthanders person and for both male and female because it is designed with two handles so the force will be smaller compared to just one handle. The design follows the principle of hand tool design that is design for use by either hand, for an individual user, and design for a power grip [2].…”

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“…Small companies have scarce resources that disrupt them to innovate [1]. Tools and equipment help to perform a task that not easily perform in more efficient way and ergonomics should be involved in the design to ensure safe and effective operation [2]. Therefore, it is necessary to design a manual chicken meat cutter to help micro business and home industry so they can reduce the investment of expensive machine to cut chicken meat faster than using knife only.…”

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Prototype Design Of Chicken Meat Cutting Tool

2018

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The main thing the chicken skewers owners do is cut the meat into blocks. However, to produce a cubical meat shape is not an easy task and takes a long time. Therefore, it is necessary to design a tool to help the chicken skewers business owner to cut the chicken breast faster. The purpose of this research was to design an ergonomically chicken meat cutting tool to produce cubical chicken meat in large quantities so that the work can be completed in a shorter time. The planning and product development stage of this research was based on Ulrich and Eppinger steps from phases 0 through 4. After that, a prototype evaluation was performed. The conclusion of this research was that the tool successfully worked as the design intended. The maximum cutting yield is 225 pieces, 15 times faster, suitable for half-frozen chicken meat, and the evaluation results show a good performance rating. Overall, most of the respondents (87.5%) were pleased with this tools, shown by 57.5% choose a smiling face and 30% show a big smiling face as their feeling of satisfaction after trying the gamma prototype.

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“…Accessibility, ergonomic arrangement, space organisation, user comfort are concerned human factors to focus on in order to improve the system dependability. The RBCIE design must be based on existing guidelines on EEG biomedical departments (Malkin, 2002 ;Binnie et al, 2003 ;) and on ergonomic space layout practices (Letho and Buck, 2008) in compliance with accessibility national or international standards or regulation (JORF, 2005 ;Federal Register, 2004) and of course in compliance with national regulations and laws. In France, designing a RBCIE requires a building agreement by the DRASS to insure that facilities are well suited to research, and compatible with people safety.…”

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Considering human factors in BCI experiments: a global approach

Botte-Lecocq¹,

Bekaert²,

Vannobel³

et al. 2014

Journal Européen des Systèmes Automatisés

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Le développement de nouveaux systèmes d'aide à la personne est l'une des applications interface cerveau ordinateur (BCI) les plus probables à court et moyen terme. Contrairement à de nombreuses technologies d'assistance récentes, les systèmes BCI actuels ne résultent pas d'une approche de conception universelle. De nombreux auteurs ont montré l'importance de prendre en compte des critères comme l'adaptabilité, la flexibilité, et autres critères relatifs à l'ergonomie lors de la conception d'une interface BCI. Dans cet article, nous proposons un cadre de travail visant à accélérer le transfert des expérimentations BCIs des laboratoires de recherche vers les services cliniques puis aux domiciles des patients. Plus précisément, nous montrons l'intérêt de concevoir une salle d'expérimentation dédiée (RBCIE) où les interfaces BCI peuvent être testées et validées efficacement. ABSTRACT. The development of new enabling devices is one of the most credible short and medium-term applications of brain-computer interfaces (BCI). Unlike many other recent assistive technologies (AT), present BCI systems usually do not result from a "design for all" approach, since they are mainly effective for people suffering from severe motor disabilities. However, many authors have shown that it is crucial to take into account adaptability, flexibility, customisability and other ergonomics related criteria while designing a BCI-based AT. In this paper, we specify a framework that could expedite the transferability of BCI experiments from labs to clinical departments and later to patients' homes. We highlight the interest of designing dedicated experimentation facilities (RBCIE) in which the developed BCI systems can be efficiently tested and validated. More generally, we highlight the interest of a multidisciplinary design approach introducing human factors at the core of concerns.

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Introduction to Human Factors and Ergonomics for Engineers

Cited by 67 publications

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Interaction between an operator and the control desk at the control room of the railway traffic: A Serbian experience

Interaction between an operator and the control desk at the control room of the railway traffic: A Serbian experience

Prototype Design Of Chicken Meat Cutting Tool

Considering human factors in BCI experiments: a global approach

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