Welcome to the special issue on anthropometry! This discussion will cover a range of differently sized topics to fit your interests. De Bruin and Castelluci discuss the problems of designing school ...furniture that fits students, noting that “Regarding School furniture dimensions, students are usually exposed to furniture with fixed dimensions, which makes it almost impossible to adjust to the ‘growing’ anthropometrics along their school life and neither does it accommodate multidimensional fit very well.” Griffin et al. discuss developing an “understanding of body dimensions in relation to how a body functions, moves, and changes” that “is fundamental to creating compatible wearable products” for aging women. Alemany et al. discuss 4D scanning, observing that “This technology is able to capture the human body surface in motion at high frequency with a high resolution” and offers “an enormous potential to advance in ergonomic design and biomechanics.” Bradtmiller describes the “nearly infinite combination of head/facial characteristics” and that “This combination of traits allows us to recognize unique individuals but increases the challenge of designing head and face products that fit a wide variety of individuals with a relatively small number of sizes.”
Kerala has been recognised as one of the top ten paradises in the world. Kerala offers a wide range of tourism items that meet the requirements and expectations of practically every type of ...traveller, and it stands out for offering a full travel experience. The state of Kerala offers tremendous potential for tourism expansion thanks to its ideal temperature, lush vegetation, natural tourist attractions, vibrant festivals, martial arts, wildlife sanctuaries, and ancient Ayurveda legacy. But Kerala has not been able to fully realise its potential, despite having a variety of resources and opportunities. Kerala's tourism industry has a lot of untapped potential as less than five percent of visitors to India come to the State. Kerala is ranked eighth in terms of foreign visitor arrivals and fifteenth in terms of domestic visitor arrivals. Kerala travel marketing tactics must be updated over time to reflect changes in customers' requirements and tastes if the state is to realise its full potential and pull in an increasing number of tourists, especially from abroad. To assure service quality, it is crucial to understand exactly what the client expects, and marketing research on consumer preferences is required to examine how the customer's needs are evolving. This study aims to comprehend how tourists see the advertising tactics used by the public and commercial sectors at different Kerala tourist attractions. The study also seeks to gauge travellers' expectations and satisfaction levels in regard to Kerala as a tourist destination because the success of marketing depends on consumer happiness.
HFES Technical Standards Update (Bob) Fox, Robert R.; (Ram) Maikala, Rammohan; Albin, Tom ...
Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting,
12/2020, Volume:
64, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
HFES oversees or touches on a variety of ergonomics and human factors standards activities including standards developed within HFES (e.g. HFES 100) and standards work outside of HFES such as ANSI, ...ISO and ACGIH. This session is intended to update HFES members on the standards work that HFES is involved. This year the emphasis will be on specific new standards work on topical areas. Included will be a discussion of a suggested interpretation strategy for the outcome metrics of the Revised NIOSH Lift Equation (RNLE) that came out of work on the revision of the ISO 11228 Part 1 on Lifting, Lowering and carrying, the status of the HFES 100 Human Factors Engineering of Computer Workstations standard and the latest work on the ACGIH Ergonomics standards and on a proposed ANSI standard on Human Readiness Levels.
The objective of this panel is to provide attendees with the opportunity to learn about what they always wanted to know about the wide world of human factors consulting, but were afraid to ask (or ...didn’t know to ask). This session should be of interest to meeting attendees at any stage of their career, including students and those who might be considering a career change or branching out.
These panelists, together, have experience over a wide range of consulting domains, as well as being individuals who are at different stages in their consulting careers. As such, the panel session will provide attendees with multiple perspectives on select topics and on responses to attendees’ questions.
Sheree Gibson, PE, CPE is President of Ergonomic Applications, a small industrial ergonomics consulting firm in South Carolina. She has been a consultant for most of her professional life, working for a forensic consulting firm as well as an in-house ergonomics consultant for Michelin Tire before setting out on her own. She has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a M.S.E. in Applied Ergonomics, both from West Virginia University. She is active in the American Industrial Hygiene Association, the American Society of Safety Engineers and HFES. Sheree is also Vice-President of the Foundation for Professional Ergonomics.
Richard Kelly, PhD earned his doctorate in Engineering Psychology from New Mexico State University and went on to work as an engineering psychologist for the Army at White Sands and then for the Navy at SPAWAR in San Diego. After about 10 years supporting large and small RDT&E programs and leading teams of scientists and engineers, he left the government to start Pacific Science & Engineering (PSE). Over the past 34 years, PSE has grown steadily from 2 to 50 employees and has been a prime contractor, subcontractor, and consultant on hundreds of projects in many different domains, including military, intelligence, industrial process, commercial, medical, education, autonomous vehicles, and more. PSE remains an independent, employee-owned company entirely focused on human performance in complex systems. The technical staff have received numerous recognitions from clients and professional groups for their outstanding work that makes a real difference for our users.
Dee Miller, PhD works at Dell, Inc. in the Business Transformation Office as the Senior Principal UX & Service Design Engineer building relationships and appropriately influencing relevant internal teams and direct business
contacts in the adoption of a human-centered approach to designing internal systems and processes and delivering services related to Order Experience Life Cycle. She recently started an independent consultancy called Dawn Specialty Consulting. One of the first projects of the new consultancy is consulting with a local non-profit and a police department on applying design thinking to community policing initiatives.
Dee has prior experience consulting with state and federal government agencies on matters pertaining to transportation and healthcare.
Tom Albin, PE, CPE, PhD is a licensed professional engineer and a certified professional ergonomist. He holds a PhD from the Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands.
Currently the principal of High Plains Ergonomics Service, Tom has been engaged in ergonomics consulting since 2001. He has extensive experience as a researcher, a corporate ergonomist and as a product developer. He is active in the US and International Standards community, chairing the ANSI/HFES 100 computer workstation standard and serving as an accredited US expert on several ISO committees. He was Executive Director of the Office Ergonomics Research Committee from 2007 until retiring in 2018. Tom’s consulting work has been principally concerned with physical ergonomics issues in office and industrial settings. Current projects deal with evaluation of injury risk during push and pull tasks and with applied anthropometry.
Topics
Panelists will each be given time to introduce themselves at the beginning of the session. Each will speak for 7-10 minutes about their career path, ‘what I like best about consulting’, and ‘3-5 things I wish I had known before I started consulting’. The panel will also address the following topics: ethics, running a business (business plans, financing, insurance, legalities, managing employees, marketing, building relationships with clients, and writing contracts), and work/life balance. These topics will be introduced, in the form of questions from the moderator if/when questions from the audience are exhausted.
HFES oversees a variety of ergonomics and human factors standards activities including standards developed within HFES (e.g. HFES 100) and standards work outside of HFES such as ANSI and ISO. This ...session is intended to update HFES members on the standards work that HFES is involved. This year the emphasis will be on specific new standards work on topical areas. A new ISO Technical Report on human factors in robotic, intelligent and autonomous systems (RIA) will be introduced along with the work of the HFES liaison to the US Department of Defense HF/E TAG. There will be an update on the new work of the ASTM 48.02 on exoskeletons and exosuits. The work on the revised ANSI/HFES 100 Human Factors Engineering of Computer Workstations, which is nearing completion, will be discussed. An update on the ACGIH work on ergonomics standards will be reviewed.
New ways of work Robertson, Michelle M.; Bazley, Conne; Albin, Tom ...
Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting,
09/2015, Volume:
59, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
New ways of work are rapidly changing globally wherein employees can work anywhere at any time. Virtual teams and telework are a common alternative worksite where employees are typically using a ...computer and mobile device to conduct their work. Satellite office workspaces are prevalent with workers are having sharing desks, or hoteling. With mobile technologies, employees have the flexibility to move around the work environment and conduct computing work tasks any place, at any time. These new workspaces ideally support communication, have a character of place, are comfortable, fulfilling, and secure. They stimulate and encourage the creativity and innovation of individuals and teams whilst performing intensive computing tasks and ensure their safety, health and well-being. Knowing how to use these new, flexible workspaces effectively is also critical for employee safety and performance. This panel discusses several issues regarding new ways of working for and with employees who intensively use computer technology and mobile devices. Panelists will present different viewpoints and perspectives on how the field of ergonomics, human computer interaction and training needs proactive consideration in designing workspaces for support of new ways of working with information computer technologies and mobile devices.
Many businesses have started using shared workspaces to maximize the use of their buildings' floor space. It can be cost prohibitive to provide dedicated office space for someone who generally ...telecommutes or spends most of his or her time as a visitor at a client's site. As a result, many businesses are 'hoteling' (providing unassigned workstations for users to 'check in' and use for the amount of time needed, and they can then 'check out' when they're done). How common is this practice?
Pathogens comprise a diverse set of immunostimulatory molecules that activate the innate immune system during infection. The immune system recognizes distinct combinations of pathogenic molecules ...leading to multiple immune activation events that cooperate to produce enhanced immune responses, known as ‘immune synergies’. Effective immune synergies are essential for the clearance of pathogens, thus inspiring novel adjuvant design to improve vaccines. We highlight current vaccine adjuvants and the importance of immune synergies to adjuvant and vaccine design. The focus is on new technologies used to study and apply immune synergies to adjuvant and vaccine development. Finally, we discuss how recent findings can be applied to the future design and characterization of synergistic adjuvants and vaccines.
Vaccines are some of the most successful therapies available to prevent infection. Immune synergies are being applied as tools for novel adjuvant design to improve vaccine efficacy. Next-generation synergistic adjuvants are being developed because many current adjuvants suffer from systemic toxicity or low potency.
Novel technologies are being developed that examine synergistic interactions and enhance adjuvanticity to develop more potent and effective adjuvants. New approaches, including high-throughput screening, can provide more rapid analyses, dose sparing, and targeted delivery of vaccines.
Targeting specific cellular compartments and cell subsets with adjuvants are emerging as ways to provide more directed immune responses. In addition, controlling the kinetic profile and robustness of the immune response has been shown to be an important factor for synergistic vaccine efficacy.
Molecular classification of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) aids prognostic stratification and clinical management. Our aim in this study is to identify transcriptome‐wide mRNAs that are specific to ...each of the molecular subtypes of AML. We analyzed RNA‐sequencing data of 955 AML samples from three cohorts, including the BeatAML project, the Cancer Genome Atlas, and a cohort of Swedish patients to provide a comprehensive transcriptome‐wide view of subtype‐specific mRNA expression. We identified 729 subtype‐specific mRNAs, discovered in the BeatAML project and validated in the other two cohorts. Using unique proteomics data, we also validated the presence of subtype‐specific mRNAs at the protein level, yielding a rich collection of potential protein‐based biomarkers for the AML community. To enable the exploration of subtype‐specific mRNA expression by the broader scientific community, we provide an interactive resource to the public.
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