The emergence of exoskeletons has opened new opportunities to reduce back injuries in
the construction industry. Perspectives of construction stakeholders regarding factors that …

Occupational exoskeletons hold promise in preventing musculoskeletal disorders, but their
effectiveness relies on their long-term use by workers. This study aims to characterize the …

Introduction: There are many different tasks involved within a workplace, and assessing the
required efforts for performing them depends on factors such as the human's body posture …

While participatory ergonomics (PE) presents numerous benefits, its empirical effectiveness
remains elusive due to the lack of transparency in implementation contexts and processes …

The research community has conducted several controlled" in-lab" assessments on the
effectiveness of industrial exoskeletons, paving the way for their adoption. However, field …

Low-back pain is a common occupational hazard for industrial workers. Several studies
show the advantages of using rigid and soft back-support passive exoskeletons and …

A wearable chair is designed to reduce musculoskeletal disorders in workers. Two-staged
optimization process using The Bees Algorithm is conducted to determine the lowest …

The lower limb exoskeleton (LLE) plays an important role in production activities requiring
assistance and load bearing. One of the challenges is to propose a control strategy that can …

• Women's share of US construction trade jobs has remained stubbornly low in past two
decades–Risen from just 2.5% to 4.2%• Numerous barriers faced by women in construction …

This paper introduces a novel attention-based sequence-to-sequence network for predicting
upper-limb ex-oskeleton joint angles, enhancing the control of assistive tech-nologies for …