Research on virtual human in ergonomic simulation

Hou, Huilian; Sun, Shouqian; Pan, Yunhe

doi:10.1016/j.cie.2007.06.027

Cited by 51 publications

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“…It consisted of lateral reciprocal aiming movements performed with a commodity mouse. Control-to-display ratio was varied in three conditions: a ratio of 4, 10, and 18 (scale: [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. Four target sizes and four distances were used, yielding 1280 selections in all.…”

Section: Data Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, biomechanical simulation has been combined with motion capture in a few earlier tools for ergonomics, and applied to cases in office safety assessment [11] and automobile assembly analysis [7]. These implementations included simplified models that lack muscles or necessitate external EMG recordings [7].…”

Section: Biomechanical Simulation In Human Factors and Hcimentioning

confidence: 99%

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Is motion capture-based biomechanical simulation valid for HCI studies?

Bachynskyi

Oulasvirta

Palmas

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Motion-capture-based biomechanical simulation is a noninvasive analysis method that yields a rich description of posture, joint, and muscle activity in human movement. The method is presently gaining ground in sports, medicine, and industrial ergonomics, but it also bears great potential for studies in HCI where the physical ergonomics of a design is important. To make the method more broadly accessible, we study its predictive validity for movements and users typical to studies in HCI. We discuss the sources of error in biomechanical simulation and present results from two validation studies conducted with a state-of-the-art system. Study I tested aimed movements ranging from multitouch gestures to dancing, finding out that the critical limiting factor is the size of movement. Study II compared muscle activation predictions to surface-EMG recordings in a 3D pointing task. The data shows medium-to-high validity that is, however, constrained by some characteristics of the movement and the user. We draw concrete recommendations to practitioners and discuss challenges to developing the method further.

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Section: Data Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Biomechanical Simulation In Human Factors and Hcimentioning

confidence: 99%

Is motion capture-based biomechanical simulation valid for HCI studies?

Bachynskyi

Oulasvirta

Palmas

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Simulations and virtual systems have been used in manufacturing system designs (Negahban & Smith, 2014) especially in teleoperation systems because of their flexibility and cost-effectiveness (He & Chen, 2009;Li & Kawashima, 2016). Yet, virtual systems have been brought into the area of human-computer study (Honglun, Shouqian, & Yunhe, 2007). Therefore, based on these concepts, we created a mixedreality tele-sandblasting system application to evaluate and design the human-robot collaboration in which real and virtual environments interact in real time.…”

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confidence: 99%

Investigating multiple human performance measures in teleoperation task: A translation task in a tele‐sandblasting maintenance system

Jientrakul

Yuangyai

Cheng

et al. 2017

Hum Ftrs & Erg Mfg Svc

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In sandblasting tasks for complex steel structure maintenance, teleoperation is required to keep humans away from occupational risk and hazard. On the other hand, teleoperation typically degrades system‐human performances, resulting in poor product quality and must be designed such that the performances remain as high as possible. However, designing the teleoperation system regarding to a single performance measure may lead to an improper design. In this article, we propose two novel loss‐function‐based human‐performance measures to incorporate with a widely used performance measure, movement time, to thoroughly represent performance: unfinished surface and damaged surface. We aim to investigate the effects of two main design parameters, viewing distance and path width. The results show that only path width is significant for overall performances. Furthermore, the effect of gender is significant such that men outperform women in cleaning the surface. Finally, the optimal setting conditions are suggested to achieve their optimal performances.

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“…Computer aided ergonomics (Karwowski, Genaidy, & Asfour, 1990) has been developed to make an appropriate design for manual operations and to solve the problem which has been encountered by countless organizations in a variety of industries: the human element is not being considered early or thoroughly enough in the life cycle of products, from design to recycling. Using realistic virtual human in computer simulation is one method to take the early consideration of ergonomics issues in the design and reduce the design cycle time and cost (Badler, 1997;Honglun, Shouqian, & Yunhe, 2007). Nowadays, there are several commercialized human simulation tools available for job design and posture analysis, such as 3DSSPP, Jack, VSR and AnyBody.…”

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Multi-objective optimisation method for posture prediction and analysis with consideration of fatigue effect and its application case

Zhang

Chablat

et al. 2009

Computers & Industrial Engineering

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a b s t r a c tAutomation techniques have been widely used in the manufacturing industry, but there are still many manual handling operations required in assembly and maintenance work. Inappropriate posture and physical fatigue might result in musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) in such physical jobs. In ergonomics and occupational biomechanics, virtual human modelling techniques have been employed to optimize manual operations in the design stage so as to avoid or decrease risk of MSD. In these methods, physical fatigue is only considered to minimize muscle or joint stress, while the effect of fatigue along time on posture is not often considered, although worker's motion strategies and postures under physical fatigue are different from those under non-fatigue conditions. In this paper, based on related literatures and multiple-objective optimisation method (MOO), a new posture prediction and analysis method is proposed for predicting the optimal posture under non-fatigue and fatigue conditions and evaluating the physical fatigue in manual material handling operation. The posture prediction and analysis problem is mathematically described, and a special application case is demonstrated for analyzing a drilling assembly operation in European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS).

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Research on virtual human in ergonomic simulation

Cited by 51 publications

References 10 publications

Is motion capture-based biomechanical simulation valid for HCI studies?

Is motion capture-based biomechanical simulation valid for HCI studies?

Investigating multiple human performance measures in teleoperation task: A translation task in a tele‐sandblasting maintenance system

Multi-objective optimisation method for posture prediction and analysis with consideration of fatigue effect and its application case

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