Ergonomics

Article	Citations
Effects of industrial back-support exoskeletons on body loading and user experience: an updated systematic review	144
State of science: evolving perspectives on ‘human error’	67
The effectivity of a passive arm support exoskeleton in reducing muscle activation and perceived exertion during plastering activities	44
State of science: the future of work – ergonomics and human factors contributions to the field	36
What about the human in human robot collaboration?	34
Methodologies for evaluating exoskeletons with industrial applications	32
Smartphone-based human fatigue level detection using machine learning approaches	32
Reference values and subscale patterns for the task load index (TLX): a meta-analytic review	31
Contribution of ergonomics and human factors to sustainable development: a systematic literature review	23
Flashing in-curb LEDs and beacons at unsignalized crosswalks and driver’s visual attention to pedestrians during nighttime	22
Mitigating motion sickness in automated vehicles with vibration cue system	22
User discomfort while using a virtual reality headset as a personal viewing system for text-intensive office tasks	21
How do pedestrians distribute their visual attention when walking through a parking garage? An eye-tracking study	21
Complexity theory in accident causation: using AcciMap to identify the systems thinking tenets in 11 catastrophes	20
Evaluating the effect of multi-sensory stimulations on simulator sickness and sense of presence during HMD-mediated VR experience	20
Automated vehicles that communicate implicitly: examining the use of lateral position within the lane	20
Ironies of artificial intelligence	20
The effects of prolonged sitting, standing, and an alternating sit-stand pattern on trunk mechanical stiffness, trunk muscle activation and low back discomfort	19
A physiological and biomechanical investigation of three passive upper-extremity exoskeletons during simulated overhead work	19
State of science: models and methods for understanding and enhancing teams and teamwork in complex sociotechnical systems	19
Testing the reliability and validity of risk assessment methods in Human Factors and Ergonomics	18
Validation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Task Load Index (NASA-TLX) adapted for the whole day repeated measures context	18
Influence of neck flexion angle on gravitational moment and neck muscle activity when using a smartphone while standing	18
The association of mobile touch screen device use with parent-child attachment: a systematic review	17
Shared control versus traded control in driving: a debate around automation pitfalls	16

Assessment of passenger long-term vibration discomfort: a field study in high-speed train environments	15
Task difficulty and physiological measures of mental workload in air traffic control: a scoping review	14
A systematic literature review of evidence for the use of assistive exoskeletons in defence and security use cases	14
Trust in artificial intelligence within production management – an exploration of antecedents	14
Activity-based flexible offices: effects on work-related outcomes in a longitudinal study	14
Evaluation of a passive low-back support exoskeleton (Ergo-Vest) for manual waste collection	14
The influence of distractions of the home-work environment on mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic	14
The impact of power on health care team performance and patient safety: a review of the literature	13
Wrist extensor muscle activity is less task-dependent than wrist flexor muscle activity while simultaneously performing moderate-to-high handgrip and wrist forces	13
Why human factors science is demonstrably necessary: historical and evolutionary foundations	13
The impaired healing hypothesis: a mechanism by which psychosocial stress and personal characteristics increase MSD risk?	12
Resolving the differences between system development and system operation using STAMP: a road safety case study in a low-income setting	12
The effect of footwear outsole material on slip resistance on dry and contaminated surfaces with geometrically controlled outsoles	12
Does standardisation improve post-operative anaesthesia handoffs? Meta-analyses on provider, patient, organisational, and handoff outcomes	12
Cooling efficiency of vests with different cooling concepts over 8-hour trials	12
The Liberty Mutual manual materials handling (LM-MMH) equations	11
Psychological distress in Spanish airline pilots during the aviation crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and psychometric analysis of the 12-item general health questionnaire	11
Effects of firefighting hood design, laundering and doffing on smoke protection, heat stress and wearability	11
Interactive effects of task load and music tempo on psychological, psychophysiological, and behavioural outcomes during simulated driving	11
The influence of brightness combinations and background colour on legibility and subjective preference under negative polarity	11
The impact of a progressive sit-stand rotation exposure duration on low back posture, muscle activation, and pain development	10
The incidence of breast health issues and the efficacy of a sports bra fit and issue service in British Army recruits	10
‘It’s a man’s world’: a gender-equitable scoping review of gender, transportation, and work	10
Ergonomics indicators: A proposal for sustainable process performance measurement in ergonomics	10
Assessing the comfort of earplugs: development and validation of the French version of the COPROD questionnaire	10
Shoulder electromyography-based indicators to assess manifestation of muscle fatigue during laboratory-simulated manual handling task	10
Reacting and responding to rare, uncertain and unprecedented events	10
Differences and similarities in comfort and discomfort experience in nine countries in Asia, the Americas and Europe	10
Assessing the female figure identification technique’s reliability as a body shape classification system	10
A shoe-insole to improve ankle joint mechanics for injury prevention among older adults	10
Effects of unreliable automation, non-driving related task, and takeover time budget on drivers’ takeover performance and workload	10
Effect of fatigue on muscle latency, muscle activation and perceived discomfort when exposed to whole-body vibration	10
Bra-body armour integration, breast discomfort and breast injury associated with wearing body armour	10
Normobaric hypoxia training in military aviation and subsequent hypoxia symptom recognition	10
Visual fatigue induced by watching virtual reality device and the effect of anisometropia	10
Comparing the effect of the posture of using smartphones on head and neck angles among college students	10
Effects of full windshield head-up display on visual attention allocation	9
The role of transactive memory systems, psychological safety and interpersonal conflict in hospital team performance	9
Examining human factors and ergonomics aspects in a manufacturing organisation’s metrics system: measuring up to stakeholder needs	9
Event-related driver stress detection with smartphones among young novice drivers	9
Analysis of the external acoustic meatus for ergonomic design: part I – measurement of the external acoustic meatus using casting, scanning and rapid estimation approaches	9
Exploring the relationship between neck flexion and neck problems in occupational populations: a systematic review of the literature	8
Effect of trunk flexion angle and time on lumbar and abdominal muscle activity while wearing a passive back-support exosuit device during simple posture-maintenance tasks	8
Revisiting human-machine trust: a replication study of Muir and Moray (1996) using a simulated pasteurizer plant task	8
Physical and cognitive demands associated with police in-vehicle technology use: an on-road case study	8
Mental workload variations during different cognitive office tasks with social media interruptions	8
Treadmill load carriage overestimates energy expenditure of overground load carriage	8
Do men and women have different musculoskeletal symptoms at the same musculoskeletal discomfort level?	8
Continuous, integrated sensors for predicting fatigue during non-repetitive work: demonstration of technique in the operating room	8
Occupational cold exposure is associated with neck pain, low back pain, and lumbar radiculopathy	8

‘Over to you’: using a STAMP control structure analysis to probe deeper into the control of UK road safety at a municipal level – the case of Cambridgeshire	8
Work–family balance in the construction industry: why gender analysis matters to develop sustainable interventions	8
A retrospective analysis of the evolution of ergonomics for environmental sustainability (2011–2021)	8
Working from home during lockdown: the association between rest breaks and well-being	8
Should data on gender and ethnicity inform ergonomics interventions? Lessons from four case studies	7
Maritime autonomous surface ships: can we learn from unmanned aerial vehicle incidents using the perceptual cycle model?	7
Analysis of the external acoustic meatus for ergonomic design: part II – anthropometric variations of the external acoustic meatus by sex, age and side in Chinese population	7
The business case for a healthy office; a holistic overview of relations between office workspace design and mental health	7
Development and evaluation of the novel postural loading on the entire body assessment	7
Testing the reliability of accident analysis methods: a comparison of AcciMap, STAMP-CAST and AcciNet	7
Human–robot interaction: how worker influence in task allocation improves autonomy	7
Investigating the effect of a passive trunk exoskeleton on local discomfort, perceived effort and spatial distribution of back muscles activity	7
‘My whole body is at work’: the silence of gendered body techniques in cork industry in an era of automation	7
Powered by virtual realities: promoting emotional recovery through technology-based recovery interventions	7
Use of wearable sensors to assess patterns of trunk flexion in young and old workers in the Metalworking Industry	7
Transcranial direct current stimulation during a prolonged cognitive task: the effect on cognitive and shooting performances in professional female basketball players	6
Human trust in otherware – a systematic literature review bringing all antecedents together	6
Can training trunk musculature influence musculoskeletal pain and physical performance in military police officers?	6
The effects of dual-task interference on visual search and verbal memory	6
A review of the effects of head-worn displays on teamwork for emergency response	6
Effectiveness and usability of real-time vibrotactile feedback training to reduce postural exposure in real manual sorting work	6
Anthropometric dataset for the German working-age population using 3D body scans from a regional epidemiological health study and a weighting algorithm	6
Development of Rasmussen’s risk management framework for analysing multi-level sociotechnical influences in the design of envisioned work systems	6
Effects of background noise and extraversion on reading comprehension performance	6
Providing different levels of accuracy about the reliability of automation to a human operator: impact on human performance	6
The role of employee perceptions of safety priorities on safety outcomes across organisational levels	6
Ergonomics training coupled with new Sit-Stand workstation implementation influences usage	6
Investigating the impacts of COVID-19 on aviation safety based on occurrences captured through flight data monitoring	6
Quantifying the qualitative: exploring epistemic network analysis as a method to study work system interactions	6
The effects of chlorination, thickness, and moisture on glove donning efficiency	6
Fitts’ law on the flight deck: evaluating touchscreens for aircraft tasks in actual flight scenarios	6
Comparison of univariate and multivariate anthropometric accommodation of the northwest Mexico population	6
A study on segmentation and refinement of key human body parts by integrating manual measurements	6
Enhancing component-specific trust with consumer automated systems through humanness design	5
Why cumulative loading calculated using non-weighted integration may not be suitable for assessing physical stress of the lower back: an empirical investigation of strain during lifting and lowering t	5
The role of death anxiety on marksmanship performance: a virtual reality simulator study	5
Effect of office chair design features on lumbar spine posture, muscle activity and perceived pain during prolonged sitting	5
Patterns in transitions of visual attention during baseline driving and during interaction with visual–manual and voice-based interfaces	5
U can’t touch this! Face touching behaviour whilst driving: implications for health, hygiene and human factors	5
It practically drives itself: autonomous vehicle technology, psychological attitudes, and susceptibility to risky driving behaviors	5
Examining the relationship between human factors related quality risk factors and work related musculoskeletal disorder risk factors in manufacturing	5
A method identifying key optimisation points for aircraft seat comfort	5
The impact of repeated bouts of shiftwork on rapid strength and reaction time in career firefighters	5
Social stress, performance after-effects and extra-role behaviour	5
Participatory ergonomics: What works for whom and why? A realist review	5
Using eye movements to evaluate the effectiveness of the situation awareness rating technique scale in measuring situation awareness for smart manufacturing	5
Using touchscreen mobile devices—when, where and how: a one-week field study	5
Automation complacency on the road	5
The quest for the ring: a case study of a new submarine control room configuration	5
Dynamic interaction between the human body and the seat during vertical vibration: effect of inclination of the seat pan and the backrest on seat transmissibilities	5
Air travellers’ experiences and understanding of jetlag and perceptions of management strategies: a qualitative study	5
Impact of shift work on sleep and fatigue in Maritime pilots	5
Emotional experiences of service robots’ anthropomorphic appearance: a multimodal measurement method	5
Gender and work in ergonomics: recent trends	5
An online hazard prediction test demonstrates differences in the ability to identify hazardous situations between different driving groups	5
The impact of an active and passive industrial back exoskeleton on functional performance	5
Whole-body vibration exposure in unfavourable seated postures: apparent mass and seat-to-head transmissibility measurements in the fore-and-aft, lateral, and vertical directions	5
Work exposures and mental and musculoskeletal symptoms in organic farming	5
Incident reporting in the outdoors: a systems-based analysis of injury, illness, and psychosocial incidents in led outdoor activities in Australia	5
Development of a metric to evaluate the ergonomic principles of assistive systems, based on the DIN 92419	5
Assessment of helicopter passengers’ vibration discomfort: proposal for improvement of the ISO 2631-1 standard	5
Affective and cognitive restoration: comparing the restorative role of indoor plants and guided meditation	5
The consumers’ response to product design: a narrative review	5
Sustainable system of systems at work: unravelling (some of) the complexity of farmers’ transition to sustainability	5
Detecting subject-specific fatigue-related changes in lifting kinematics using a machine learning approach	5
Lower-body muscular power and exercise tolerance predict susceptibility to enemy fire during a tactical combat movement simulation	5
Gaming experience predicts UAS operator performance and workload in simulated search and rescue missions	5
Integrating physiological monitoring systems in military aviation: a brief narrative review of its importance, opportunities, and risks	5
A parametric modeling of adult body shape in a supported seated posture including effects of age	5
Trunk sway changes in professional bus drivers during actual shifts on long-distance routes	5
Weighted vests in CrossFit increase physiological stress during walking and running without changes in spatiotemporal gait parameters	4
Designing human-AI systems for complex settings: ideas from distributed, joint, and self-organising perspectives of sociotechnical systems and cognitive work analysis	4
Gait initiation differences between overweight and normal weight individuals	4
Cardiovascular response to whole-body vibration on an automobile seat	4
No pain, no gain? The effects of adding a pain stimulus in virtual training for police officers	4
Shaping the development and use of Artificial Intelligence: how human factors and ergonomics expertise can become more pertinent	4
Effects of heat load and hypobaric hypoxia on cognitive performance: a combined stressor approach	4
Regular and temporary occupants’ perceptions of satisfaction in tertiary education buildings	4
Understanding user behaviour in activity-based offices	4
Developing a simulation tool to quantify biomechanical load and quality of care in nursing	4

Effect of variable priority training on police officer driving performance and workload	4
Comparing an augmented reality navigation display to an electronic map for military reconnaissance	4
Effects of safety pattern, cabin ergonomics, and sleep on work-related stress and burnout of city and transit bus drivers in Lahore, Pakistan	4
Individual differences in the temporal progression of motion sickness and anxiety: the role of passengers’ trait anxiety and motion sickness history	4
Dark mode vogue: Do light-on-dark displays have measurable benefits to users?	4
Influence of nuclear power plant interface complexity on user decision-making: an ERP study	4
The physiological demands of helicopter winch rescue in water and over land	4
Evaluating adaptiveness of an active back exosuit for dynamic lifting and maximum range of motion	4
Biodynamic response of seated human body to vertical and added lateral and roll vibrations	4
Relationship between anxiety and monotonous task performance in response to local cooling: an experimental study in healthy young men	4
Validation of the Revised Strain Index for Predicting Risk of Incident Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in a Prospective Cohort	4
Quantitative and qualitative workload assessment in steep terrain forest operations: fostering a safer work environment through yarder automation	4
Fonts of wider letter shapes improve letter recognition in parafovea and periphery	4
The biomechanical benefits of active sitting	4
Development of the Smart Tools Proneness Questionnaire (STP-Q): an instrument to assess the individual propensity to use smart tools	4
Physiological demands and physical performance determinants of a new firefighting simulation test	4
Towards better microsleep predictions in fatigued drivers: exploring benefits of personality traits and IQ	4
Establishment of a finite element model based on craniofacial soft tissue thickness measurements and stress analysis of medical goggles	4
Smooth and safe tram journeys: tram driver perspectives and opportunities using a haptic master controller in a virtual reality environment	4
Quick coherence technique facilitating commercial pilots’ psychophysiological resilience to the impact of COVID-19	4
Integration of sex and gender in interventions by students in ergonomics	4
Using cognitive work analysis to identify competencies for human factors and ergonomics practitioners	4
“It helps and it doesn’t help”: maternal perspectives on how the use of smartphones and tablet computers influences parent-infant attachment	4
Applying the sustainable system-of-systems framework: wastewater(s) in a rapidly urbanising South African settlement	4
Field study on the use and acceptance of an arm support exoskeleton in plastering	4
Severity of slouched posture during smartphone use is associated with the musculoskeletal discomfort, daily usage, and school year among adolescents	4
To automate or not to automate: advocating the ‘cliff-edge’ principle	3
Forty years of Organisational Design and Management (ODAM)	3
Women’s wrist and elbow at work: analysis of acute injuries and cumulative trauma disorders to improve ergonomics in female-dominated activities	3
Flexible sensor-based biomechanical evaluation of low-back exoskeleton use in lifting	3
Use of an inflatable mat to reduce body discomfort development when performing computer work at a standing desk	3
Effects of variations in the tragus expansion angle on physical comfort for in-ear wearables	3
Domain- and task-analytic workload (DTAW) method: a methodology for predicting mental workload during severe accidents in nuclear power plants	3
Shoulder moments and angles during single and combined manual material handling tasks	3
Evaluation of the visual-manual resources required to perform calling and navigation tasks in conventional mode with a portable phone and in full- touch mode with an embedded system	3
Association of anthropometric characteristics of law enforcement officers with perceived ratings of fit, comfort, and pain in the use of body armor	3
Subjective discomfort analysis of human body in semi-supine posture caused by vertical sinusoidal vibration	3
Post-exercise, passive heat acclimation with sauna or hot-water immersion provide comparable adaptations to performance in the heat in a military context	3
Recognition and evaluation of mental workload in different stages of perceptual and cognitive information processing using a multimodal approach	3
An improved clothing size recommendation approach based on subdivision of female body types	3
Effects of the whole-body vibration direction on the cognitive response of standing subjects	3
Exploring the importance of a usable and emotional product design from the user’s perspective	3
Healthcare worker choice and low back force between self-chosen and highest bed height when boosting a patient up in bed	3
Measuring pressure distribution under the seat cushion and dividing the pressure map in six regions might be beneficial for comfort studies of aircraft seats	3
Usability testing of three visual HMIs for assisted driving: How design impacts driver distraction and mental models	3
Multiple outcome interactions in healthcare systems: a participatory outcome mapping approach	3
Exploring the relationships between computer task characteristics, mental workload, and computer users’ biomechanical responses	3
Measured effects of workload and auditory feedback on remote pilot task performance	3
A method for increasing 3D body scanning’s precision: Gryphon and consecutive scanning	3
Analysis of sagittal spinal alignment at the adolescent age: for furniture design	3
Effects of background colour, polarity, and saturation on digital icon status recognition and visual search performance	3
Defining the lumbar and trunk-thigh neutral zone from the passive stiffness curve: application to hybrid sit-stand postures and chair design	3
The combination of deep breathing and mental imagery promotes cardiovascular recovery in firefighters	3
Human and machine-induced social stress and cognitive performance	3
Reducing failures in daily medical practice: Healthcare failure mode and effect analysis combined with computer simulation	3
Influence of a passive back support exoskeleton on simulated patient bed bathing: results of an exploratory study	3
Can occupational health professionals successfully apply the Goldilocks Work Paradigm in a simulated work redesign?	3
The compatibility of exoskeletons in perioperative environments and workflows: an analysis of surgical team members’ perspectives and workflow simulation	3
Towards a unified model of accident causation: refining and validating the systems thinking safety tenets	3
Exposures to select risk factors can be estimated from a continuous stream of inertial sensor measurements during a variety of lifting-lowering tasks	3
Can increased load carriage affect lower limbs kinematics during military gait?	3
“Simulation of medical goggles to stop airborne transmission of viruses: computational fluid dynamics in ergonomics”	3
Parkinson’s disease affects gaze behaviour and performance of drivers	3
Sex differences in perceived discomfort during seated static posture holding	3
Wider is better but sharper is not: optimizing the image of camera-monitor systems	3
A predictive model to quantify joint torques and support reaction forces when using a smartphone while standing with support	3
Quantifying the effectiveness of a passive trunk-support exosuit at reducing erector spinae muscle fatigue during a quasi-static posture maintenance task	3
Forecasting emergent risks in advanced AI systems: an analysis of a future road transport management system	3
Walking the line: balancing performance barriers and facilitators in an augmented reality mobile application for paediatric code cart training	3
‘There’s good and bad’: parent perspectives on the influence of mobile touch screen device use on prenatal attachment	3
Proposal of guidelines to assist managers to face pressing challenges confronting Latin American universities: a complexity theory perspective	3
The scope for adaptive capacity in emergency departments: modelling performance constraints using control task analysis and social organisational cooperation analysis	3
Changing perspectives: enhancing learning efficacy with the after-action review in virtual reality training for police	3
A systematic review of literature on occupational health and safety interventions for older workers	3
Visual and steering behaviours during lane departures: a longitudinal study of interactions between lane departure warning system, driving task and driving experience	3
Quantifying high flexion postures in occupational childcare as they relate to the potential for increased risk of knee osteoarthritis	3
Exposure to hypoxia impairs helicopter pilots’ awareness of environment	3
Naturalistic observations of multiteam interaction networks: Implications for cognition in crisis management teams	3
Team communication patterns during real and simulated trauma resuscitation—a social network analysis	3
Measurement of soft tissue deformation at discomfort and pain threshold in different regions of the head	2
A comfort analysis of AR glasses on physical load during long-term wearing	2
Exploring the physiological benefits of carrying a suspended backpack versus a traditional backpack	2
Understanding trust calibration in automated driving: the effect of time, personality, and system warning design	2
Interaction between physical demands and job strain on musculoskeletal symptoms and work performance	2
Physicians' perceptions of two ways of algorithm presentation: graphic versus text-based approach	2
Are humans still necessary?	2
An image-based shape analysis approach and its application to young women’s waist-hip-leg position	2
Body mapping of skin friction coefficient and tactile perception during the dynamic skin-textile interaction	2
Evaluation of physiological responses to mental workload in n-back and arithmetic tasks	2
Can handling a weapon make soldiers more unstable?	2
A systematic review of Personal Comfort Systems from a post-phenomenological view	2
The risk-taking behavioural intentions of pilots in adverse weather conditions: an application of the theory of planned behaviour	2
Development and validation of an assessment index for quantifying cognitive task load in pilots under simulated flight conditions using heart rate variability and principal component analysis	2
Creating safe environments: optimal acoustic alarming of laypeople in fire prevention	2
Anthropometrics and body composition predict performance during a simulated direct-fire engagement	2