Ergonomics of Clothing

Ergonomics analysis of the productive environment of fashion clothing firm in Belo Horizonte-MG.

A company making women's clothing, located in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais was studied in its ergonomic aspects with regard to the layout. With this study it was possible to establish the best positioning of machines and jobs of employees. The analysis criteria used were: frequency of use, functional grouping, sequence of use, flow and intensity of preferred connections. An ideal arrangement in...

Investigation on Some Ergonomics and Psychological Strains of Common Militarism Protective Clothing

Protective clothing limits heat transfer and hampers task performance due to the increased weight. Militarism protective clothing enables humans to operate in adverse environments. In the selection and evaluation of militarism protective clothing attention should be given to heat strain, ergonomic and fit issues next to the actual protection it offers. Fifty Male healthy subjects participated i...

Ergonomics principles to design clothing work for electrical workers in Colombia.

The recent development of the Colombian legislation, have been identified the need to develop protective clothing to work according to specifications from the work done and in compliance with international standards. These involve the development and design of new strategies and measures for work clothing design. In this study we analyzes the activities of the workers in the electrical sector, ...

The Ergonomics of Economics Is the Economics of Ergonomics

Augmented Clothing

Augmented reality (AR) is the concept of inserting virtual objects into real scenes. Typically, these augmentations are aligned with rigid planar objects in the scene, which can sometimes be restrictive. This poster presents a method to perform real-time 2D augmentations on nonrigid objects, such as clothing. In addition, a novel technique to establish common illumination and render augmentatio...