Advances in Ergonomics in Manufacturing

Trzcielinski\, Stefan; Karwowski\, Waldemar

• Section I: Human Oriented Organization; Chapter 1: Organizational Innovations and Knowledge Based Enterprises. Theoretical Postulates and Empirical Issues; Chapter 2: Chosen Methods Supporting Management of Enterprise's Agility; Chapter 3: Workforce Diversity and Ergonomic Challenges for Sustainable Manufacturing Organizations; Chapter 4: Integrative Production Technology for High-Wage Countries - Resolving the Polylemma of Production; Chapter 5: Management Audit as Part of an Ergonomics Management in Production Systems; Chapter 6: Ergonomic Intervention Plan for Machinery Operators; Chapter 7: Human-Machine-Systems for Future Smart Factories; Chapter 8: The Role of Ergonomic Factors in the Modeling of Project Management Organization; Chapter 9: User-centered Design of a Game-based, Virtual Training System; Chapter 10: Age-appropriate Workplace Engineering with the Aid of Cardboard Engineering; Chapter 11: A Flexible Intelligent Algorithm for Identification of Optimum Mix of Demographic Variables for Integrated HSEE-ISO Systems: The Case of A Gas Transmission Refinery; Chapter 12: Hybrid Meta-heuristic Based Occupational Health Management System for Indian Workers Exposed to Risk of Heat Stress; Chapter 13: Adaptive Assembly Planning for a Nondeterministic Domain; Chapter 14: Planning-modules for Manual Assembly Using Virtual Reality Techniques; Chapter 15: Learning and Forgetting in Production-inventory Systems with Perishable Seasonal Items; Section II: Work Study — Improving the Skills, Quality and Effectiveness; Chapter 16: Influence at Years of Experience on Operation Concerning Kyoto Style Earthen Wall; Chapter 17: Comparison of Painting Technique of Urushi Products between Expert and Non-expert; Chapter 18: Subjective Evaluation of Kyo-Yuzen-dyed Fabrics with Different Material in Putting-past (Nori-oki) Process; Chapter 19: Human Motion of Weaving “Kana-ami” Technique by Biomechanical Analysis; Chapter 20: Subjective Evaluation for Beauty of Texture on Metal Surface with Chasing Operation; Chapter 21: Analysis of “kyo-Gashi” Techniques and Skills for Japanese Sweets Experts; Chapter 22: Analysis of Operation and Eye Movement Concerning Master of Wire Net; Chapter 23: Highly Cultured Brush Manufactured by Traditional Brush Mixing Technique “KEMOMI”; Chapter 24: Virtual Agent Assistance for Maintenance Tasks in IPS 2 – First Results of a Study; Chapter 25: Analysis of Operation and Eye Movement Concerning Master of Wire Net; Chapter 26: A New Method for Forecasting the Learning Time of Sensorimotor Tasks; Section III: Human Factors in Work Systems; Chapter 27: Industrial Robots – the New Friends of an Aging Workforce?; Chapter 28: The Effect of Anthropomorphic Movements of Assembly Robots on Human prediction; Chapter 29: Design and Implementation of a Comprehensible Cognitive Assembly System; Chapter 30: Navigation as a Key for Self-Optimizing Assembly Processes; Chapter 31: Assembly Motion Planning Using Controlled Collisions; Chapter 32: Improving Operator's Conformity with Expectations in a Cognitively Automated Assembly Cell Using Human Heuristics; Chapter 33: Cooperative Disassembly of Human and Robot Using an Augmented Vision System; Chapter 34: Artificial Intelligence in Optimizing Environmental Factors towards Human performance; Chapter 35: Perceptions of Traffic Enforcers on Road Traffic Noise and Its Potential Non-Auditory Effects; Chapter 36: Temporal Strategy and Performance during a Short-cycle Fatiguing Repetitive Task; Chapter 37: Kitting as an Information Source in Manual Assembly; Chapter 38: A Biomechanical Evaluation of Dynamic and Asymmetric Lifting Using the AnyBody Commercial Software: A Pilot Study; Chapter 39: Real-time Measuring System of Eye-gaze Location and Writing Pressure in Calligraphy; Chapter 40: Use of a Monocular See- Through Head-Mounted Display while Walking: A Comparison of Different User Interfaces; Chapter 41: A Game System for Visually Impaired Utilizing Kinect; Chapter 42: A Case Study of Participatory Ergonomics in the Quality Assessment of a Drilling “Dog House”; Section IV: Toward an Ergonomic Product; Chapter 43: A Calculation Model for Ergonomics Cost-benefit Analyses in Early Product Development Stages; Chapter 44: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Haptic Feedback on a Steering Wheel for BSW; Chapter 45: Identifying Affective Satisfaction Elements of a Smartphone Application; Chapter 46: Identifying Elements of User Value for Smartphones through a Longitudinal Observation; Chapter 47: Development of an Affective Satisfaction Model for Smartphones; Chapter 48: Determination of Ringtone Volumes of Mobile Phones: Applying Signal Detection Theory; Chapter 49: Design and Evaluation of Methods to Aid Onehanded Input in Mobile Touch Screen Devices; Chapter 50: Evaluation Method for Product End-Of-Life Selection Strategy; Chapter 51: Studying Customer Experience for Chinese Fast-Food Service; Chapter 52: Effects of Preference on Crape Structure of Saijo Japanese Paper; Chapter 53: One New Anthropometrical Method for Body Measurement in Motion; Chapter 54: Experimental Measurement of Body Size and Practice of Teaching and Research; Chapter 55: A Study of Shoe Sizing Systems: Foot Anthropometry of Filipino Children Aged 7-12; Chapter 56: The Customer Requirements for Sandals- Inspirations for Design