Ergonomics

Article	Citations
Effects of industrial back-support exoskeletons on body loading and user experience: an updated systematic review	133
State of science: evolving perspectives on ‘human error’	61
The effectivity of a passive arm support exoskeleton in reducing muscle activation and perceived exertion during plastering activities	42
State of science: the future of work – ergonomics and human factors contributions to the field	35
Reference values and subscale patterns for the task load index (TLX): a meta-analytic review	31
What about the human in human robot collaboration?	31
Methodologies for evaluating exoskeletons with industrial applications	31
Smartphone-based human fatigue level detection using machine learning approaches	29
Why do older people love and hate assistive technology? ‒ an emotional experience perspective	25
Development and validation of a cumulative exposure shoulder risk assessment tool based on fatigue failure theory	24
Contribution of ergonomics and human factors to sustainable development: a systematic literature review	22
Flashing in-curb LEDs and beacons at unsignalized crosswalks and driver’s visual attention to pedestrians during nighttime	22
How do pedestrians distribute their visual attention when walking through a parking garage? An eye-tracking study	20
Automated vehicles that communicate implicitly: examining the use of lateral position within the lane	20
Mitigating motion sickness in automated vehicles with vibration cue system	20
Evaluating the effect of multi-sensory stimulations on simulator sickness and sense of presence during HMD-mediated VR experience	19
Complexity theory in accident causation: using AcciMap to identify the systems thinking tenets in 11 catastrophes	19
The effects of prolonged sitting, standing, and an alternating sit-stand pattern on trunk mechanical stiffness, trunk muscle activation and low back discomfort	18
User discomfort while using a virtual reality headset as a personal viewing system for text-intensive office tasks	18
Testing the reliability and validity of risk assessment methods in Human Factors and Ergonomics	18
State of science: models and methods for understanding and enhancing teams and teamwork in complex sociotechnical systems	17
Influence of neck flexion angle on gravitational moment and neck muscle activity when using a smartphone while standing	17
A physiological and biomechanical investigation of three passive upper-extremity exoskeletons during simulated overhead work	16
The effectiveness of ergonomics interventions in reducing upper limb work-related musculoskeletal pain and dysfunction in sonographers, surgeons and dentists: a systematic review	16
Assessment of passenger long-term vibration discomfort: a field study in high-speed train environments	15

The association of mobile touch screen device use with parent-child attachment: a systematic review	15
Shared control versus traded control in driving: a debate around automation pitfalls	14
Validation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Task Load Index (NASA-TLX) adapted for the whole day repeated measures context	14
Evaluation of a passive low-back support exoskeleton (Ergo-Vest) for manual waste collection	13
Activity-based flexible offices: effects on work-related outcomes in a longitudinal study	13
Why human factors science is demonstrably necessary: historical and evolutionary foundations	13
Task difficulty and physiological measures of mental workload in air traffic control: a scoping review	13
The impact of power on health care team performance and patient safety: a review of the literature	13
A systematic literature review of evidence for the use of assistive exoskeletons in defence and security use cases	13
The influence of distractions of the home-work environment on mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
The impaired healing hypothesis: a mechanism by which psychosocial stress and personal characteristics increase MSD risk?	12
Trust in artificial intelligence within production management – an exploration of antecedents	12
Postural precursors of motion sickness in head-mounted displays: drivers and passengers, women and men	12
Development and validation of a behavioural video coding scheme for detecting mental workload in manual assembly	12
Ironies of artificial intelligence	12
Resolving the differences between system development and system operation using STAMP: a road safety case study in a low-income setting	11
How the characteristics of sports bras affect their performance	11
Cooling efficiency of vests with different cooling concepts over 8-hour trials	11
Effects of firefighting hood design, laundering and doffing on smoke protection, heat stress and wearability	11
The immediate effect of the abdominal drawing-in maneuver technique on stature change in seated sedentary workers with chronic low back pain	11
The Liberty Mutual manual materials handling (LM-MMH) equations	11
Does standardisation improve post-operative anaesthesia handoffs? Meta-analyses on provider, patient, organisational, and handoff outcomes	11
Representing two road traffic collisions in one Accimap: highlighting the importance of emergency response and enforcement in a low-income country	11
Shoulder electromyography-based indicators to assess manifestation of muscle fatigue during laboratory-simulated manual handling task	10
The influence of brightness combinations and background colour on legibility and subjective preference under negative polarity	10
Differences and similarities in comfort and discomfort experience in nine countries in Asia, the Americas and Europe	10
‘It’s a man’s world’: a gender-equitable scoping review of gender, transportation, and work	10
Assessing the comfort of earplugs: development and validation of the French version of the COPROD questionnaire	10
Effect of fatigue on muscle latency, muscle activation and perceived discomfort when exposed to whole-body vibration	10
Wrist extensor muscle activity is less task-dependent than wrist flexor muscle activity while simultaneously performing moderate-to-high handgrip and wrist forces	10
Acoustic comfort depends on the psychological state of the individual	10
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	10
Effects of unreliable automation, non-driving related task, and takeover time budget on drivers’ takeover performance and workload	10
Drivers’ car-following behaviours in low-illumination conditions	10
The effect of footwear outsole material on slip resistance on dry and contaminated surfaces with geometrically controlled outsoles	10
Normobaric hypoxia training in military aviation and subsequent hypoxia symptom recognition	10
A shoe-insole to improve ankle joint mechanics for injury prevention among older adults	9
The role of transactive memory systems, psychological safety and interpersonal conflict in hospital team performance	9
The short-term effects of artificially-impaired binocular vision on driving performance	9
Ergonomics indicators: A proposal for sustainable process performance measurement in ergonomics	9
A framework for studying risk factors for lower extremity musculoskeletal discomfort in nurses	9
Effects of full windshield head-up display on visual attention allocation	9
The incidence of breast health issues and the efficacy of a sports bra fit and issue service in British Army recruits	9
Interactive effects of task load and music tempo on psychological, psychophysiological, and behavioural outcomes during simulated driving	9
Evaluation of musculoskeletal discomfort using item response theory: creation of a scale based on the self-reported pain symptoms	9
The impact of a progressive sit-stand rotation exposure duration on low back posture, muscle activation, and pain development	9
Assessing the female figure identification technique’s reliability as a body shape classification system	9
Comparing the effect of the posture of using smartphones on head and neck angles among college students	8
Reacting and responding to rare, uncertain and unprecedented events	8
A retrospective analysis of the evolution of ergonomics for environmental sustainability (2011–2021)	8

Occupational cold exposure is associated with neck pain, low back pain, and lumbar radiculopathy	8
Working from home during lockdown: the association between rest breaks and well-being	8
Visual fatigue induced by watching virtual reality device and the effect of anisometropia	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
Mental workload variations during different cognitive office tasks with social media interruptions	8
Work–family balance in the construction industry: why gender analysis matters to develop sustainable interventions	8
Revisiting human-machine trust: a replication study of Muir and Moray (1996) using a simulated pasteurizer plant task	8
Bra-body armour integration, breast discomfort and breast injury associated with wearing body armour	8
Analysis of the external acoustic meatus for ergonomic design: part I – measurement of the external acoustic meatus using casting, scanning and rapid estimation approaches	8
Physical and cognitive demands associated with police in-vehicle technology use: an on-road case study	7
Effects of working posture, lifting load, and standing surface on postural instability during simulated lifting tasks in construction	7
Development and evaluation of the novel postural loading on the entire body assessment	7
Event-related driver stress detection with smartphones among young novice drivers	7
Examining human factors and ergonomics aspects in a manufacturing organisation’s metrics system: measuring up to stakeholder needs	7
Testing the reliability of accident analysis methods: a comparison of AcciMap, STAMP-CAST and AcciNet	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
Exploratory factor analysis and validity of the virtual reality symptom questionnaire and computer use survey	7
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	7
The business case for a healthy office; a holistic overview of relations between office workspace design and mental health	7
‘My whole body is at work’: the silence of gendered body techniques in cork industry in an era of automation	7
Treadmill load carriage overestimates energy expenditure of overground load carriage	7
‘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	7
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
The effects of chlorination, thickness, and moisture on glove donning efficiency	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
A review of the effects of head-worn displays on teamwork for emergency response	6
Exploring the relationship between neck flexion and neck problems in occupational populations: a systematic review of the literature	6
The role of employee perceptions of safety priorities on safety outcomes across organisational levels	6
Effectiveness and usability of real-time vibrotactile feedback training to reduce postural exposure in real manual sorting work	6
Development of Rasmussen’s risk management framework for analysing multi-level sociotechnical influences in the design of envisioned work systems	6
Designing creative spaces: an experimental examination of the effect of a nature poster on divergent thinking	6
Comparison of univariate and multivariate anthropometric accommodation of the northwest Mexico population	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
Anthropometric dataset for the German working-age population using 3D body scans from a regional epidemiological health study and a weighting algorithm	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
Powered by virtual realities: promoting emotional recovery through technology-based recovery interventions	6
Use of wearable sensors to assess patterns of trunk flexion in young and old workers in the Metalworking Industry	6
A study on segmentation and refinement of key human body parts by integrating manual measurements	6
Work exposures and mental and musculoskeletal symptoms in organic farming	5
Using touchscreen mobile devices—when, where and how: a one-week field study	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
Quantifying the qualitative: exploring epistemic network analysis as a method to study work system interactions	5
Air travellers’ experiences and understanding of jetlag and perceptions of management strategies: a qualitative study	5
U can’t touch this! Face touching behaviour whilst driving: implications for health, hygiene and human factors	5
Using cognitive work analysis to identify competencies for human factors and ergonomics practitioners	5
A method identifying key optimisation points for aircraft seat comfort	5
An online hazard prediction test demonstrates differences in the ability to identify hazardous situations between different driving groups	5
Using eye movements to evaluate the effectiveness of the situation awareness rating technique scale in measuring situation awareness for smart manufacturing	5
Automation complacency on the road	5
The quest for the ring: a case study of a new submarine control room configuration	5
Human trust in otherware – a systematic literature review bringing all antecedents together	5
Ironic efficiency in automation-aided signal detection	5
Impact of shift work on sleep and fatigue in Maritime pilots	5
Gaming experience predicts UAS operator performance and workload in simulated search and rescue missions	5
Social stress, performance after-effects and extra-role behaviour	5
Trunk sway changes in professional bus drivers during actual shifts on long-distance routes	5
Incident reporting in the outdoors: a systems-based analysis of injury, illness, and psychosocial incidents in led outdoor activities in Australia	5
Transcranial direct current stimulation during a prolonged cognitive task: the effect on cognitive and shooting performances in professional female basketball players	5
Assessment of helicopter passengers’ vibration discomfort: proposal for improvement of the ISO 2631-1 standard	5
Human–robot interaction: how worker influence in task allocation improves autonomy	5
The consumers’ response to product design: a narrative review	5
Fitts’ law on the flight deck: evaluating touchscreens for aircraft tasks in actual flight scenarios	5
The impact of repeated bouts of shiftwork on rapid strength and reaction time in career firefighters	5
Integrating physiological monitoring systems in military aviation: a brief narrative review of its importance, opportunities, and risks	5
Individual differences in the temporal progression of motion sickness and anxiety: the role of passengers’ trait anxiety and motion sickness history	4
Auditory versus visual spatial stimulus-response mappings in tracking and discrete dual task performance: implications for human-machine interface design	4
Fonts of wider letter shapes improve letter recognition in parafovea and periphery	4
Establishment of a finite element model based on craniofacial soft tissue thickness measurements and stress analysis of medical goggles	4
The biomechanical benefits of active sitting	4
Quick coherence technique facilitating commercial pilots’ psychophysiological resilience to the impact of COVID-19	4
Development of a metric to evaluate the ergonomic principles of assistive systems, based on the DIN 92419	4
Affective and cognitive restoration: comparing the restorative role of indoor plants and guided meditation	4
Smooth and safe tram journeys: tram driver perspectives and opportunities using a haptic master controller in a virtual reality environment	4
Investigating the effect of a passive trunk exoskeleton on local discomfort, perceived effort and spatial distribution of back muscles activity	4
Examining the relationship between human factors related quality risk factors and work related musculoskeletal disorder risk factors in manufacturing	4

Emotional experiences of service robots’ anthropomorphic appearance: a multimodal measurement method	4
Inspiratory muscle training at sea level improves the strength of inspiratory muscles during load carriage in cold-hypoxia	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
Designing human-AI systems for complex settings: ideas from distributed, joint, and self-organising perspectives of sociotechnical systems and cognitive work analysis	4
Integration of sex and gender in interventions by students in ergonomics	4
Towards better microsleep predictions in fatigued drivers: exploring benefits of personality traits and IQ	4
Quantifying the uncertainty in tribometer measurements on walkway surfaces	4
Effect of office chair design features on lumbar spine posture, muscle activity and perceived pain during prolonged sitting	4
Applying the sustainable system-of-systems framework: wastewater(s) in a rapidly urbanising South African settlement	4
The physiological demands of helicopter winch rescue in water and over land	4
Enhancing component-specific trust with consumer automated systems through humanness design	4
Cardiovascular response to whole-body vibration on an automobile seat	4
Sustainable system of systems at work: unravelling (some of) the complexity of farmers’ transition to sustainability	4
Regular and temporary occupants’ perceptions of satisfaction in tertiary education buildings	4
It practically drives itself: autonomous vehicle technology, psychological attitudes, and susceptibility to risky driving behaviors	4
Quantitative and qualitative workload assessment in steep terrain forest operations: fostering a safer work environment through yarder automation	4
Fight or flight? Behaviour and experiences of laypersons in the face of an incipient fire	4
Dark mode vogue: Do light-on-dark displays have measurable benefits to users?	4
Gait initiation differences between overweight and normal weight individuals	4
Lower-body muscular power and exercise tolerance predict susceptibility to enemy fire during a tactical combat movement simulation	4
The role of death anxiety on marksmanship performance: a virtual reality simulator study	4
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	4
Biodynamic response of seated human body to vertical and added lateral and roll vibrations	4
Effect of variable priority training on police officer driving performance and workload	4
Shaping the development and use of Artificial Intelligence: how human factors and ergonomics expertise can become more pertinent	4
Physiological demands and physical performance determinants of a new firefighting simulation test	4
Eye tracking for work-related visual search: a cognitive task analysis	4
Patterns in transitions of visual attention during baseline driving and during interaction with visual–manual and voice-based interfaces	4
Validation of the Revised Strain Index for Predicting Risk of Incident Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in a Prospective Cohort	4
Detecting subject-specific fatigue-related changes in lifting kinematics using a machine learning approach	4
Gender and work in ergonomics: recent trends	4
Development of the Smart Tools Proneness Questionnaire (STP-Q): an instrument to assess the individual propensity to use smart tools	4
Relationship between anxiety and monotonous task performance in response to local cooling: an experimental study in healthy young men	3
Defining the lumbar and trunk-thigh neutral zone from the passive stiffness curve: application to hybrid sit-stand postures and chair design	3
Forty years of Organisational Design and Management (ODAM)	3
Exploring the relationships between computer task characteristics, mental workload, and computer users’ biomechanical responses	3
Walking the line: balancing performance barriers and facilitators in an augmented reality mobile application for paediatric code cart training	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
An improved clothing size recommendation approach based on subdivision of female body types	3
Human and machine-induced social stress and cognitive performance	3
No pain, no gain? The effects of adding a pain stimulus in virtual training for police officers	3
A systematic review of literature on occupational health and safety interventions for older workers	3
Can increased load carriage affect lower limbs kinematics during military gait?	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
Analysis method for revealing human and organisational factors of occupational accidents with movement disturbance (OAMDs)	3
Shoulder moments and angles during single and combined manual material handling tasks	3
Women’s wrist and elbow at work: analysis of acute injuries and cumulative trauma disorders to improve ergonomics in female-dominated activities	3
Sex differences in perceived discomfort during seated static posture holding	3
Developing a simulation tool to quantify biomechanical load and quality of care in nursing	3
A predictive model to quantify joint torques and support reaction forces when using a smartphone while standing with support	3
The accumulation of, and associations between, nurses’ activity levels within their shift in the emergency department	3
‘There’s good and bad’: parent perspectives on the influence of mobile touch screen device use on prenatal attachment	3
A method for increasing 3D body scanning’s precision: Gryphon and consecutive scanning	3
Quantifying the effectiveness of a passive trunk-support exosuit at reducing erector spinae muscle fatigue during a quasi-static posture maintenance task	3
Reducing failures in daily medical practice: Healthcare failure mode and effect analysis combined with computer simulation	3
Association of anthropometric characteristics of law enforcement officers with perceived ratings of fit, comfort, and pain in the use of body armor	3
The impact of an active and passive industrial back exoskeleton on functional performance	3
Cardiac autonomic responses to different tasks in office workers with access to a sit-stand table – a study in real work setting	3
Usability testing of three visual HMIs for assisted driving: How design impacts driver distraction and mental models	3
Can occupational health professionals successfully apply the Goldilocks Work Paradigm in a simulated work redesign?	3
Visual and steering behaviours during lane departures: a longitudinal study of interactions between lane departure warning system, driving task and driving experience	3
Exploring the importance of a usable and emotional product design from the user’s perspective	3
Effects of heat load and hypobaric hypoxia on cognitive performance: a combined stressor approach	3
Analysis of sagittal spinal alignment at the adolescent age: for furniture design	3
A parametric modeling of adult body shape in a supported seated posture including effects of age	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
Wider is better but sharper is not: optimizing the image of camera-monitor systems	3
Effects of variations in the tragus expansion angle on physical comfort for in-ear wearables	3
Use of an inflatable mat to reduce body discomfort development when performing computer work at a standing desk	3
Understanding user behaviour in activity-based offices	3
Severity of slouched posture during smartphone use is associated with the musculoskeletal discomfort, daily usage, and school year among adolescents	3
Comparing an augmented reality navigation display to an electronic map for military reconnaissance	3
Weighted vests in CrossFit increase physiological stress during walking and running without changes in spatiotemporal gait parameters	3
The compatibility of exoskeletons in perioperative environments and workflows: an analysis of surgical team members’ perspectives and workflow simulation	3
Subjective discomfort analysis of human body in semi-supine posture caused by vertical sinusoidal vibration	3
Evaluating adaptiveness of an active back exosuit for dynamic lifting and maximum range of motion	3
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	3
Healthcare worker choice and low back force between self-chosen and highest bed height when boosting a patient up in bed	3
Exposure to hypoxia impairs helicopter pilots’ awareness of environment	3
To automate or not to automate: advocating the ‘cliff-edge’ principle	3
A preliminary study to identify data needs for improving fit of hand and wrist orthosis using verbal protocol analysis	3
Participatory ergonomics: What works for whom and why? A realist review	3
Multiple outcome interactions in healthcare systems: a participatory outcome mapping approach	3
Effects of environmental illumination and screen brightness settings on upper limb and axial skeleton parameters: how do users adapt postures?	3
Measured effects of workload and auditory feedback on remote pilot task performance	3
The risk-taking behavioural intentions of pilots in adverse weather conditions: an application of the theory of planned behaviour	2
Understanding trust calibration in automated driving: the effect of time, personality, and system warning design	2
Exploring the physiological benefits of carrying a suspended backpack versus a traditional backpack	2
Comparison of two different cooling systems in alleviating thermal and physiological strain during prolonged exercise in the heat	2
Anthropometrics and body composition predict performance during a simulated direct-fire engagement	2
“It helps and it doesn’t help”: maternal perspectives on how the use of smartphones and tablet computers influences parent-infant attachment	2
Creating safe environments: optimal acoustic alarming of laypeople in fire prevention	2
“Simulation of medical goggles to stop airborne transmission of viruses: computational fluid dynamics in ergonomics”	2
Interaction between physical demands and job strain on musculoskeletal symptoms and work performance	2