Journal: Applied Ergonomics

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Appl. Ergon.

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Elsevier

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0003-6870

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  • Adding a strategic edge to human factors/ergonomics
    Item type: Journal Article
    Grote, Gudela (2014)
    Applied Ergonomics
  • Stereoscopic versus monoscopic displays: Learning fine manual dexterity skills using a microsurgical task simulator
    Item type: Journal Article
    Wehr, Franka; Held, Jürgen (2019)
    Applied Ergonomics
  • Display clutter and its effects on visual attention distribution and financial risk judgment
    Item type: Journal Article
    Ognjanovic, Svetlana; Thüring, Manfred; Murphy, Ryan O.; et al. (2019)
    Applied Ergonomics
    Display clutter is a widely studied phenomenon in ergonomics, where information density and other properties of task-relevant visualizations are related to effective user performance and visual attention. This paper examines the impact of clutter in the context of financial stock visualizations. Depending on their expertise, traders can use a variety of different cues to judge the current and future value of a stock and to assess its riskiness. In our study, two groups of participants (novices and experts) judge the riskiness of 28 pairs of stocks under two clutter conditions (low and high). Consistency of judgments and group concordance serve as measures for judgment performance, while mean fixation duration, fixation frequency, and transition matrix density are employed to capture visual attention. Our results reveal significant effects of display clutter and expertise on both the performance measures as well as the visual attention measures.
  • The effect of flight phase on electrodermal activity and gaze behavior: A simulator study
    Item type: Journal Article
    Lutnyk, Luis; Rudi, David; Schinazi, Victor; et al. (2023)
    Applied Ergonomics
    Current advances in airplane cockpit design and layout are often driven by a need to improve the pilot's awareness of the aircraft's state. This involves an improvement in the flow of information from aircraft to pilot. However, providing the aircraft with information on the pilot's state remains an open challenge. This work takes a first step towards determining the pilot's state based on biosensor data. We conducted a simulator study to record participants' electrodermal activity and gaze behavior, indicating pilot state changes during three distinct flight phases in an instrument failure scenario. The results show a significant difference in these psychophysiological measures between a phase of regular flight, the incident phase, and a phase with an additional troubleshooting task after the failure. The differences in the observed measures suggest great potential for a pilot-aware cockpit that can provide assistance based on the sensed pilot state.
  • Avoiding unintentional injuries from household chemicals: Comparing the appeal to children from the perspectives of children, caregivers, and experts
    Item type: Journal Article
    Bosshart, Noah; Bearth, Angela; Stutz, Sandro E.; et al. (2025)
    Applied Ergonomics
    This study investigated whether caregivers and regulatory experts can predict the appeal of household chemicals for children and explored determinants of differences between adults' and children's child-appeal rating. We invited N = 95 4-year-old children and their caregivers to a laboratory study. Both independently ranked 16 household chemicals from the least to the most child-appealing product. In addition to the laboratory study, we sent an online adaptation of this ranking task to N = 46 experts involved in the monitoring and authorizing of household chemicals. Our findings show that the aggregated child-appeal rating of household chemicals was highly similar among caregivers, experts, and children. When comparing child-appeal ratings of household chemicals with and without child-appealing images, caregivers and experts did well in predicting which products might appeal to children. Finally, our findings show that the similarity between individual caregivers' and their own children's child-appeal ratings of household chemicals varied substantially. To conclude, although adults can assess the general child-appeal of household chemicals, they need to consider that the actual appeal of a household chemical can vary considerably among individual children. Instead of regulating specific product attributes, policymakers should prioritize educating caregivers about pitfalls and misconceptions that hinder effective injury prevention.
  • Quantification of long cane usage characteristics with the constant contact technique
    Item type: Journal Article
    Kim, Y.; Moncada-Torres, Arturo; Furrer, J.; et al. (2016)
    Applied Ergonomics
  • Heat loss variations of full-face motorcycle helmets
    Item type: Journal Article
    Bogerd, C. R.; Bruehwiler, P. A. (2009)
    Applied Ergonomics
  • Low back pain and its relationship with sitting behaviour among sedentary office workers
    Item type: Journal Article
    Bontrup, Carolin; Taylor, William R.; Fliesser, Michael; et al. (2019)
    Applied Ergonomics
    The relationships between sedentary lifestyle, sitting behaviour, and low back pain (LBP) remain controversial. In this study, we investigated the relationship between back pain and occupational sitting habits in 64 call-centre employees. A textile pressure mat was used to evaluate and parameterise sitting behaviour over a total of 400 h, while pain questionnaires evaluated acute and chronic LBP. Seventy-five percent of the participants reported some level of either chronic or acute back pain. Individuals with chronic LBP demonstrated a possible trend (t-test not significant) towards more static sitting behaviour compared to their pain-free counterparts. Furthermore, a greater association was found between sitting behaviour and chronic LBP than for acute pain/disability, which is plausibly due to a greater awareness of pain-free sitting positions in individuals with chronic pain compared to those affected by acute pain.
  • The influence of packaging on consumers’ risk perception of chemical household products
    Item type: Journal Article
    Buchmüller, Kim; Bearth, Angela; Siegrist, Michael (2022)
    Applied Ergonomics
    Chemical household products are found in most households. If consumers are to safely handle such products, they need to be aware of the risks posed by the particular product they are using. Although most countries require that chemical household products feature warning labels (e.g. the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals), consumers appear to also use other cues to determine the risks associated with a specific product. Thus, we studied the influence of packaging on consumers' risk perception of chemical household products. More specifically, we examined the effect of the colour of the packaging (black or pink packaging versus the original packaging) as well as the presence of images of flowers or food-imitating elements on the packaging. Significant differences with regard to consumer's risk perception were found in terms of all four studied manipulations. Therefore, we conclude that consumers' risk perception can be influenced by the packaging design. In particular, if elements that lower consumer's risk perception (e.g. featuring flowers on the label and food-imitating elements on the packaging) are omitted from the packaging, consumers might be able to more accurately judge the risks associated with a product and so take appropriate safety precautions.
  • Seat pan and backrest pressure distribution while sitting in office chairs
    Item type: Journal Article
    Zemp, Roland; Taylor, William R.; Lorenzetti, Silvio (2016)
    Applied Ergonomics
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