TL;DR: The results illustrate the good potential of this passive exoskeleton to reduce the internal muscle forces and (reactive) spinal forces in the lumbar region, however, the adoption of an over-extended knee position might be, among others, one of the concerns when using theExoskeleton.

TL;DR: Assessment of the impact of safety climate beyond safety outcomes among lone workers using truck drivers as an exemplar showed that employees' safety climate perceptions were linked to employees' level of job satisfaction, engagement, and objective turnover rate, thus supporting the application of social exchange theory.

TL;DR: It is concluded that basic perceptual mechanisms need to be considered in the design process whereby self-driving cars cannot simply be thought of as living rooms, offices, or entertainment venues on wheels.

TL;DR: The outcome of this study is to present the differences between the proposed levels of automation and the various taxonomies, giving the potential users a number of choices in order to decide which taxonomy satisfies their needs better.

TL;DR: Interviews with engineers and employees of allied disciplines from an automotive manufacturer about their current physical and virtual properties and processes guided a review of research findings and scientific advances from the academic literature, which formed the basis of recommendations for future developments of VR technologies and applications.

TL;DR: For older adults in China, self-satisfaction and facilitating conditions were proved to be important factors influencing perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use, and cost was found to be a critical factor influencing behavior intention.

TL;DR: An in-depth review of existing assessment frameworks used in practice for the evaluation of human body motion and a new system to detect and characterise unsafe postures of construction workers based on the measurement of motion data from wearable wireless IMUs integrated in a body area network are introduced.

TL;DR: Results indicate that environmental stress reduces not only the cognitive capacity for work, but the rate of work (i.e. by reducing motivation), and improving IEQ will likely produce small but pervasive increases in productivity.

TL;DR: By evaluating mental workload, the traffic control center director can organize the center's traffic congestion operators to sustain the appropriate mental workload and improve traffic control management.

TL;DR: This research aimed to test the idea of driver-initiated automation, in which the automation offers decision support that can be either accepted or ignored, to improve trust and make the role of the driver more transparent concerning their authority over the automated system.

TL;DR: Results indicate that the system model characteristics and user interface affect the experienced suitability of the prototype for HFE evaluation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the relationship between exposure-response relationships between occupational risk factors and musculoskeletal disorders in the neck and shoulders and concluded that women exhibited a higher prevalence of neck and shoulder complaints and tension neck syndrome than men, when adjusting for postures, velocities, muscular activity or psychosocial exposure.

TL;DR: Age-related differences in the importance of speed and accuracy in task completion point to the need to consider more strongly the factor user age in usability research and practice.

TL;DR: An interview study was conducted to explore workers' understanding of their health at work and ways of making their jobs easier, safer or more comfortable and a high prevalence of symptoms was reported and ratings of work ability were high.

TL;DR: Alternative single pilot operations are model using Cognitive Work Analysis and Social Network Analysis to suggest that distributed crewing option could be at least as resilient, in network architecture terms, as the current dual crewing operations.

TL;DR: While operators showed overall a noteworthy ability to cope with automation failure, there were, however, decrements in diagnostic speed and prospective memory with lower reliability.

TL;DR: Investigating dynamic balance control during stair descent and the effects of varying the step geometry demonstrated that older adults had greater lateral tilt of the upper body than young adults, but actually had larger margins of stability than the young in the antero-posterior direction as a result of their slower cadence.

TL;DR: A mathematical model is developed that would help to reduce the potential for work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) without additional cost for engineering work, although it may need more computational time and relative complex job rotation sequences.

TL;DR: The evidence does not support the proposition that passenger comfort and discomfort are underline by different sets of factors, and it is suggested that the evaluation of overall passenger comfort experience, as a whole, employ one spectrum ranging from extreme comfort to discomfort.

TL;DR: Findings from this study provide guidance on what nurses perceive as contributing to fatigue and factors that are helpful and harmful to coping with fatigue within their work system.

TL;DR: Overall the analysis identified a range of instances where modification or redesign in line with systems thinking could potentially improve behaviour and safety, and a notable finding is that there are opportunities for redesign outside of the physical rail level crossing infrastructure.

TL;DR: If the maximum duration for which personnel can physiologically sustain a load carriage task could be accurately predicted, commanders and supervisors could better plan for and manage tasks to ensure operational imperatives were met whilst minimising health risks for their workers.

TL;DR: The results suggest that heat stress risks on construction site are socially constructed and can be effectively managed through elimination at supply chain level, effective engineering control, proactive control of the risks through individual interventions and reactive control through mindful recognition and response to early symptoms.

TL;DR: The results show that the drivers in the SAFE-T trained group were more likely to anticipate hazards, quicker and more effective at responding to hazards, and morelikely to maintain glance durations under a critical threshold of 2 s as compared to drivers inThe Placebo-trained group who received a control program that does not actively train on any of the three cognitive skills.

TL;DR: Results indicate that ecodriving support systems should facilitate anticipatory driving and help users locate and maintain drivetrain states of maximum efficiency.

TL;DR: Important factors are considered that will assist the automotive community to understand the underlying issues of the human and their interaction within complex systems, including assistive decision support and the delegation of authority to the automobile.

TL;DR: Results in this study showed that quantitative (HFI) and qualitative (participants' feelings) data were related when comparing three commercially available bicycle helmets, and demonstrated that females and Asian people have lower fit scores than males and Caucasians, respectively.

TL;DR: Sensory and affective responses as a consequence of thermal transition after travel from warm-neutral-warm conditions did not replicate the hysteresis effects of brief, slightly cool, thermal sensations found in previous laboratory experiments, indicating that PMV is an acceptable alternative to predict thermal sensation immediately after a down-step thermal transition for people living in a hot-humid climate country.

TL;DR: This study provides a review of the available tools and guidelines and proposes a theoretical framework intended for developing a design guidance tool for inclusive workstation design.