The use of Serious Games (SG) in the health domain is expanding. In the field of Neurodegenerative Diseases (ND) such as Alzheimer's Disease, SG are currently employed to provide alternative solutions for patients' treatment, stimulation, and rehabilitation. The design of SG for people with ND implies collaborations between professionals in ND and professionals in SG design. As the field is qui...

Occupational health and mental health are the interconnected elements of the overall well-being of workers. The objective of the study was to estimate the prevalence and determinants of mental health disorder among male tannery workers. This study uses the GHQ-12 scale to measure the symptoms of mental health disorder among the male tannery workers, who were engaged in this occupation for at le...

background: ergonomic training had been implemented for prevention or reduction of neck and shoulder complaints among workers. the purpose of the present study was to assess the role of ergonomic training intervention on decreasing the prevalence of neck and shoulder complaints among workers of an automobile factory.   methods : within the present randomized clinical trial, the role of three er...

The UC Davis Ergonomics & Body Mechanics Program provides employees with ergonomic information, training and evaluations.

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to determine the effects of participatory workplace improvement (PWI) -based provision of ergonomic training and ergonomic action checklists (ACLs) to on-site managers on workplace improvement activities for low back pain (LBP). METHODS A randomized controlled trial (RCT) was conducted at a manufacturing company in Japan. Teams entered in the study were randomly as...

Digital human modeling (DHM) systems underwent significant development within the last years. They achieved constantly growing importance in the field of ergonomic workplace design, product development, product usability, ergonomic research, ergonomic education, audiovisual marketing and the entertainment industry. They help to design ergonomic products as well as healthy and safe socio-technic...

Since 2008 Fiat Group Automobiles has introduced Ergo-UAS system for the balancing of production lines and to detect ergonomic issues. Ergo-UAS system integrates 2 specific methods: MTM-UAS for time measurement and EAWS as ergonomic method to evaluate biomechanical effort for each workstation. Fiat is using a software system to manage time evaluation and ergo characterization of production cycl...

Since the ergonomic intervention process is currently a highly individual, knowledge-based process, the development of a methodical procedure for this process has a great potential in ergonomics of working postures. Thus, in this paper a concept to support the ergonomic intervention process aiming to improve awkward working postures is described. A comprehensive analysis of working postures was...

BACKGROUND Ergonomic hazards exposure is the main cause of occupational pain. The aim of this paper is to describe the prevalence of exposure to occupational physical load by occupation, in Spanish working population, and its relationship to employment conditions and sociodemographic characteristics of workers. METHODS We used the information contained in the Spanish Job-Exposure Matrix (MatE...