OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ergonomics is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Effects of industrial back-support exoskeletons on body loading and user experience: an updated systematic review	109
Usability, user experience and accessibility: towards an integrative model	69
State of science: evolving perspectives on ‘human error’	52
Measurement and identification of mental workload during simulated computer tasks with multimodal methods and machine learning	47
The effectivity of a passive arm support exoskeleton in reducing muscle activation and perceived exertion during plastering activities	36
Who is to blame for crashes involving autonomous vehicles? Exploring blame attribution across the road transport system	35
State of science: the future of work – ergonomics and human factors contributions to the field	33
Smartphone-based human fatigue level detection using machine learning approaches	26
What about the human in human robot collaboration?	25
Methodologies for evaluating exoskeletons with industrial applications	25
Why do older people love and hate assistive technology? ‒ an emotional experience perspective	22
Reference values and subscale patterns for the task load index (TLX): a meta-analytic review	22
Development and validation of a cumulative exposure shoulder risk assessment tool based on fatigue failure theory	22
Challenges in interaction modelling with digital human models – A systematic literature review of interaction modelling approaches	22
Flashing in-curb LEDs and beacons at unsignalized crosswalks and driver’s visual attention to pedestrians during nighttime	21
The reliability and transparency bases of trust in human-swarm interaction: principles and implications	20
Automated vehicles that communicate implicitly: examining the use of lateral position within the lane	19
Biomechanical load during patient transfer with assistive devices: Cross-sectional study	19
Contribution of ergonomics and human factors to sustainable development: a systematic literature review	18
Prevalence of work-related musculoskeletal pain in masonry apprentices	18
Evaluating the effect of multi-sensory stimulations on simulator sickness and sense of presence during HMD-mediated VR experience	17
Complexity theory in accident causation: using AcciMap to identify the systems thinking tenets in 11 catastrophes	17
A computer vision approach for classifying isometric grip force exertion levels	17
How do pedestrians distribute their visual attention when walking through a parking garage? An eye-tracking study	16
Computational modelling and systems ergonomics: a system dynamics model of drink driving-related trauma prevention	16

Testing the reliability and validity of risk assessment methods in Human Factors and Ergonomics	16
The association of mobile touch screen device use with parent-child attachment: a systematic review	15
The effects of prolonged sitting, standing, and an alternating sit-stand pattern on trunk mechanical stiffness, trunk muscle activation and low back discomfort	15
User discomfort while using a virtual reality headset as a personal viewing system for text-intensive office tasks	14
Kinematic and kinetic functional requirements for industrial exoskeletons for lifting tasks and overhead lifting	14
Effects of working posture and roof slope on activation of lower limb muscles during shingle installation	13
Assessment of passenger long-term vibration discomfort: a field study in high-speed train environments	13
Influence of neck flexion angle on gravitational moment and neck muscle activity when using a smartphone while standing	13
A physiological and biomechanical investigation of three passive upper-extremity exoskeletons during simulated overhead work	13
Validation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Task Load Index (NASA-TLX) adapted for the whole day repeated measures context	13
Cognition in crisis management teams: an integrative analysis of definitions	13
Evaluation of a passive low-back support exoskeleton (Ergo-Vest) for manual waste collection	12
State of science: models and methods for understanding and enhancing teams and teamwork in complex sociotechnical systems	12
Activity-based flexible offices: effects on work-related outcomes in a longitudinal study	12
The effectiveness of ergonomics interventions in reducing upper limb work-related musculoskeletal pain and dysfunction in sonographers, surgeons and dentists: a systematic review	12
Why human factors science is demonstrably necessary: historical and evolutionary foundations	12
Development and validation of a behavioural video coding scheme for detecting mental workload in manual assembly	11
Postural precursors of motion sickness in head-mounted displays: drivers and passengers, women and men	11
Simulating the behaviour of complex systems: computational modelling in ergonomics	11
The immediate effect of the abdominal drawing-in maneuver technique on stature change in seated sedentary workers with chronic low back pain	11
Shared control versus traded control in driving: a debate around automation pitfalls	11
Mitigating motion sickness in automated vehicles with vibration cue system	11
Trust in artificial intelligence within production management – an exploration of antecedents	10
Muddling through troubled water: resilient performance of incident management teams during Hurricane Harvey	10
Increasing standing tolerance in office workers with standing-induced back pain	10
Modelling performance during repetitive precision tasks using wearable sensors: a data-driven approach	10
Normobaric hypoxia training in military aviation and subsequent hypoxia symptom recognition	10
Task difficulty and physiological measures of mental workload in air traffic control: a scoping review	10
Shoulder electromyography-based indicators to assess manifestation of muscle fatigue during laboratory-simulated manual handling task	10
The impact of power on health care team performance and patient safety: a review of the literature	10
The influence of distractions of the home-work environment on mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Distributed situation awareness: a health-system approach to assessing and designing patient flow management	10
Resolving the differences between system development and system operation using STAMP: a road safety case study in a low-income setting	10
The impaired healing hypothesis: a mechanism by which psychosocial stress and personal characteristics increase MSD risk?	10
How the characteristics of sports bras affect their performance	10
Representing two road traffic collisions in one Accimap: highlighting the importance of emergency response and enforcement in a low-income country	10
Effects of firefighting hood design, laundering and doffing on smoke protection, heat stress and wearability	9
Drivers’ car-following behaviours in low-illumination conditions	9
Breast and torso characteristics of female contact football players: implications for the design of sports bras and breast protection	9
Does standardisation improve post-operative anaesthesia handoffs? Meta-analyses on provider, patient, organisational, and handoff outcomes	9
The short-term effects of artificially-impaired binocular vision on driving performance	9
The incidence of breast health issues and the efficacy of a sports bra fit and issue service in British Army recruits	9
Brain activity during a working memory task in different postures: an EEG study	9
Differences and similarities in comfort and discomfort experience in nine countries in Asia, the Americas and Europe	9
Cooling efficiency of vests with different cooling concepts over 8-hour trials	9
Wrist extensor muscle activity is less task-dependent than wrist flexor muscle activity while simultaneously performing moderate-to-high handgrip and wrist forces	8
The influence of brightness combinations and background colour on legibility and subjective preference under negative polarity	8
Bra-body armour integration, breast discomfort and breast injury associated with wearing body armour	8
A shoe-insole to improve ankle joint mechanics for injury prevention among older adults	8
A framework for studying risk factors for lower extremity musculoskeletal discomfort in nurses	8

Determining how different levels of indoor carbon dioxide affect human monotonous task performance and their effects on human activation states using a lab experiment: a tracking task	8
The effect of footwear outsole material on slip resistance on dry and contaminated surfaces with geometrically controlled outsoles	8
Continuous, integrated sensors for predicting fatigue during non-repetitive work: demonstration of technique in the operating room	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
Evaluation of musculoskeletal discomfort using item response theory: creation of a scale based on the self-reported pain symptoms	8
Work and sport: relationships between specific job stressors and sports participation	8
The role of transactive memory systems, psychological safety and interpersonal conflict in hospital team performance	8
No physiological or biomechanical sex-by-load interactions during treadmill-based load carriage	8
Occupational cold exposure is associated with neck pain, low back pain, and lumbar radiculopathy	8
Development and evaluation of an electronic hospital referral system: a human factors approach	8
Ergonomics indicators: A proposal for sustainable process performance measurement in ergonomics	8
Healthcare workers’ perspectives on participatory system dynamics modelling and simulation: designing safe and efficient hospital pharmacy dispensing systems together	8
Visual fatigue induced by watching virtual reality device and the effect of anisometropia	8
Exploratory factor analysis and validity of the virtual reality symptom questionnaire and computer use survey	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
The impact of age and body mass index on a bra sizing system formed by anthropometric measurements of Sichuan Chinese females	7
‘It’s a man’s world’: a gender-equitable scoping review of gender, transportation, and work	7
Acoustic comfort depends on the psychological state of the individual	7
Interaction-centred design: an end user evaluation of road intersection concepts developed using the cognitive work analysis design toolkit (CWA-DT)	7
A systematic literature review of evidence for the use of assistive exoskeletons in defence and security use cases	7
Do men and women have different musculoskeletal symptoms at the same musculoskeletal discomfort level?	7
Reacting and responding to rare, uncertain and unprecedented events	7
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	7
Assessing the female figure identification technique’s reliability as a body shape classification system	7
The Liberty Mutual manual materials handling (LM-MMH) equations	7
Experimental study on individual risk in crowds based on exerted force and human perceptions	7
The impact of a progressive sit-stand rotation exposure duration on low back posture, muscle activation, and pain development	7
A retrospective analysis of the evolution of ergonomics for environmental sustainability (2011–2021)	7
Trust is essential: positive effects of information systems on users’ memory require trust in the system	7
Examining human factors and ergonomics aspects in a manufacturing organisation’s metrics system: measuring up to stakeholder needs	6
A review of the effects of head-worn displays on teamwork for emergency response	6
Use of wearable sensors to assess patterns of trunk flexion in young and old workers in the Metalworking Industry	6
Ironies of artificial intelligence	6
Influence of virtual keyboard design and usage posture on typing performance and muscle activity during tablet interaction	6
Development of Rasmussen’s risk management framework for analysing multi-level sociotechnical influences in the design of envisioned work systems	6
The effects of chlorination, thickness, and moisture on glove donning efficiency	6
Comparison of univariate and multivariate anthropometric accommodation of the northwest Mexico population	6
Assessing the comfort of earplugs: development and validation of the French version of the COPROD questionnaire	6
Effect of fatigue on muscle latency, muscle activation and perceived discomfort when exposed to whole-body vibration	6
The business case for a healthy office; a holistic overview of relations between office workspace design and mental health	6
Effects of background noise and extraversion on reading comprehension performance	6
Revisiting human-machine trust: a replication study of Muir and Moray (1996) using a simulated pasteurizer plant task	6
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	6
The role of employee perceptions of safety priorities on safety outcomes across organisational levels	6
Effects of unreliable automation, non-driving related task, and takeover time budget on drivers’ takeover performance and workload	6
Employee shirking and overworking: modelling the unintended consequences of work organisation	6
Development and evaluation of the novel postural loading on the entire body assessment	6
Designing creative spaces: an experimental examination of the effect of a nature poster on divergent thinking	6
Effects of social stress on performance and strain in complex multiple task environments	5
Human–robot interaction: how worker influence in task allocation improves autonomy	5
Physical and cognitive demands associated with police in-vehicle technology use: an on-road case study	5
The relationship between indicators of lumbo-pelvic coordination and pain, disability, pain catastrophizing and depression in patients presenting with non-chronic low back pain	5
The impact of repeated bouts of shiftwork on rapid strength and reaction time in career firefighters	5
Coordination breakdowns in nuclear power plant control rooms: cause identification and behaviour-sequence analysis	5
Effectiveness and usability of real-time vibrotactile feedback training to reduce postural exposure in real manual sorting work	5
Effects of working posture, lifting load, and standing surface on postural instability during simulated lifting tasks in construction	5
Event-related driver stress detection with smartphones among young novice drivers	5
Effects of full windshield head-up display on visual attention allocation	5
Interplay between rotational work shift and high altitude-related chronic intermittent hypobaric hypoxia on cardiovascular health and sleep quality in Chilean miners	5
Impact of shift work on sleep and fatigue in Maritime pilots	5
Distributed vibration isolation and manual dexterity of anti-vibration gloves: is there a correlation?	5
The effects of dual-task interference on visual search and verbal memory	5
‘My whole body is at work’: the silence of gendered body techniques in cork industry in an era of automation	5
A method identifying key optimisation points for aircraft seat comfort	5
Exploring the relationship between neck flexion and neck problems in occupational populations: a systematic review of the literature	5
Influence of creep deformation on sub-regional lumbar spine motion during manual lifting	5
Target selection by gaze pointing and manual confirmation: performance improved by locking the gaze cursor	5
Should data on gender and ethnicity inform ergonomics interventions? Lessons from four case studies	5
Comparison of univariate and multivariate anthropometric design requirements methods for flight deck design application	5
Work–family balance in the construction industry: why gender analysis matters to develop sustainable interventions	5
Fitts’ law on the flight deck: evaluating touchscreens for aircraft tasks in actual flight scenarios	5
Mental workload variations during different cognitive office tasks with social media interruptions	5
Gaming experience predicts UAS operator performance and workload in simulated search and rescue missions	5
Interactive effects of task load and music tempo on psychological, psychophysiological, and behavioural outcomes during simulated driving	5
A study on segmentation and refinement of key human body parts by integrating manual measurements	5
Treadmill load carriage overestimates energy expenditure of overground load carriage	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