Nowadays new products are required more and more often. Since a certain product is
assembled only on a specific Assembly System (AS), a new AS has to be designed every …

In HMI design, several parameters have to be correctly evaluated in order to guarantee a
good level of safety and wellbeing of users (humans) and to avoid health problems like …

Human fallibility in working environments contributes to majority of incidents and accidents
in high-risk systems, while it affects the quality and productivity in low-risk systems. Over the …

With the advent of future vehicles, passengers expect to travel in comfort, and the free leg
space between facing-seats could be an issue due to the unsuitability for all people …

Currently, the word 'comfort'is often used in relation to the marketing of products such as
chairs, cars interiors, clothing, hand tools and even airplane tickets. In this field of research …

The preventive evaluation of perceived (dis) comfort during the early stages of the design
process is still an open issue. In Car development process, all tasks that involve human …

The most advocated schemes of comfort perception have proposed an objective method to
evaluate “effects in the internal body” and “perceived effects”—the state of the art for …

Total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA) have been recently heralded
as the operations of the Century. Large improvements in mobility and patient-reported …

An exploration of how ergonomics can contribute to the solution of important societal and
engineering challenges, Advances in Social and Organizational Factors, discusses the …

Abstract Knowledge about the effects of primary factors on comfort level is useful in Human-
Machine-Interface (HMI) design. The study and the mathematical modeling of these effects …