Data for Designing Hand Tools for Female Craft Workers

This paper reviews the anthropometric and strength data collected on women which can be used to redesign tools to permit the female workers to successfully function in the craft areas. Data was collected on women currently working in the craft areas for a large United States corporation. The workers were located at facilities in three major cities. The geographic dispersion of these cities help assure a balance in any regional variations in ethnic groups.Yeshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guideline

Prediction of Cardiac Response to Physical Stress

This paper presents a method for predicting an individual's cardiac response to a series of fixed intensity tasks. It was determined that cardiac responses to exercise at given work loads are similar for subjects of the same sex and level of physical fitness when they are expressed in terms of resting heart rate. Using this observation as a basis, a prediction model was developed by extrapolating from emperically derived heart rate patterns. The prediction error was no more than five to ten percent of the actual heart rate value in ninety percent of the predictions.Yeshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guideline

A Human Factors Evaluation of the American Kitchen

Kitchen design is evaluated using counter space, counter location and counter height as the criteria. A survey of apartment kitchens showed that designers generally follow the guidelines for total counter space, but the allocation of counter space to the different work centers makes the designs inadequate. An experimental study shows that the standard 36 high counter surface is not at the correct height for many kitchen tasks and a simple, economical design for adjustable cabinets is presented.Yeshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guideline

An Analysis of First Impression in the Reading of Electrical Schematic Diagrams

The initial impression of electronic troubleshooters of schematic diagrams was studied in a series of two experiments. In one experiment the time available to the subjects to view the information was restricted to 12 seconds and in the second experiment the subjects could look at the material as often and as long as they wished. The characteristics of the first element redrawn were: (1) the same elements were consistently selected, (2) the element was chunked with other elements, (3) the element was in a branch instead of a loop, (4) the element was along the exterior of the element and (5) the element was active more often than would be expected from the number of active elements in the circuit.Yeshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guideline

Prediction Of Physiological Strain And Performance Under Conditions Of High Psychological Stress.

PhDIndustrial engineeringUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/179964/2/7014545.pd